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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2004Where in Ireland?
"Aroo from "x"? "I am. aroo? "Do you eat schputs?" "Bedad, I do" "How do you eat them?" "Sckin an all" "Does that not harm ya?" "Nah ha all" (Don't answer if you're Irish.) In alt.usage.english, Rushtown wrote: >"Aroo from "x"? >"I am. aroo? [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >"Does that not harm ya?" >"Nah ha all" Cork? >(Don't answer if you're Irish.) Nobody's Irish these days. Irish is, like, so 1990s.  SignatureMickwick >In alt.usage.english, Rushtown wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >Nobody's Irish these days. Irish is, like, so 1990s. So 1970s, more like. (I trust you are did as you were told and read *The Rotters' Club*.) -- Ross Howard In alt.usage.english, Ross Howard wrote: >(I trust you are did as you were told and read *The Rotters' Club*.) Um ... The dog ate my car keys, so I haven't been out much recently. SignatureMickwick > In alt.usage.english, Rushtown wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Nobody's Irish these days. Irish is, like, so 1990s. Might we describe it, YJ fashion, as gay? SignatureBob Lieblich Neither Irish nor (he thinks) gay In alt.usage.english, Robert Lieblich wrote: >> Nobody's Irish these days. Irish is, like, so 1990s. > >Might we describe it, YJ fashion, as gay? We might, to be sure. SignatureMickwick > In alt.usage.english, Rushtown wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Nobody's Irish these days. Irish is, like, so 1990s. Danish is the new Irish. -- John Dean Oxford In alt.usage.english, John Dean wrote: >> Nobody's Irish these days. Irish is, like, so 1990s. > >Danish is the new Irish. And Tallinn is the new Prague. SignatureMickwick > In alt.usage.english, John Dean wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > And Tallinn is the new Prague. Skitt will be heartbroken; he was rooting for Riga. Vagrant thought: Is it tru that the Estonian and Latvian are as distantly related as English and Spanish? SignatureBob Lieblich Who hasn't even made it to Prague yet -- or Vienna, FTM >> In alt.usage.english, John Dean wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >Vagrant thought: Is it tru that the Estonian and Latvian are as >distantly related as English and Spanish? More distantly; Estonian isn't even Indo-European. SignatureDon Aitken Mail to the addresses given in the headers is no longer being read. To mail me, substitute "clara.co.uk" for "freeuk.com". >>>> Nobody's Irish these days. Irish is, like, so 1990s. >>> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Skitt will be heartbroken; he was rooting for Riga. How did you guess? > Vagrant thought: Is it tru that the Estonian and Latvian are as > distantly related as English and Spanish? Yup. Many, many times removed. Now, speaking of the Lithuanians ... SignatureSkitt (in Hayward, California) www.geocities.com/opus731/ >> In alt.usage.english, John Dean wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Vagrant thought: Is it tru that the Estonian and Latvian are as > distantly related as English and Spanish? Estonian is related to Finnish, Saami, Hungarian, and not a lot else. These langauges are not Indo-European, as Latvian is. SignatureSimon R. Hughes |
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