I know what I need for at least one of my stories

[cornerofmadness]

Someone to help me with Irish slang. Poor Killian, he just doesn't speak like he's from Ireland. needs to peer at the flist. I know there are Scots and Englishwomen and my Welsh teacher on FB but I'm not sure there are anyone from Ireland to help. pouts (Killian is from my YA story, he's the seer)

Also I wanted Roy and Maes to get up to something silly but I'm not sure what. Suggestions?

I have gotten a lot handwritten this weekend, especially today. Dad got up on father's day and sealed the driveway so I was stuck in the house. I did mainline investigation discovery channel (a forensic's channel? Why oh why doesn't DISH have this in my package?) So good for my muse.

Lucky Uncle showed up, drove as far up the drive as he could. Later he tells me to go get something out of his glove box. Got there and realized he had just come from the casino. had nearly 5 grand. hates him so much :-P

I DID get lucky though. I won Morticai's Luck (Duanor Series) by Darlene Bolesny from the goodreads giveaway. I'm surprised I won something so fast.






Points to music.I can see wildrider twitching already.I think he did this on American Idol (as if I would know. As if watch). I sometimes don't mind covers this one...let's just say it was in a FST I downloaded. yeah...no.

Comments

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Actually, I enjoy a good cover. And to my knowledge, Adam Lambert doesn't market himself as a country music singer, so I'm fine with it. Heck, I own the "Johnny Cash Remixed" disc, which is Cash songs sampled by Rap singers. They don't pretend it's country. :-)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

let's call this uninspired at best. I don't mind a good cover either. I like Adam but let's just say he's done better things

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

I haven't really heard him do very much, so I can't pass judgement on it.

Eric Clapton does a killer version of Ring of Fire on the Anchored in Love tribute to June; there are some great ones out there!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

now i'd be interested in Clapton's version

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

You know what? I screwed up -- it wasn't Clapton, it's Elvis Costello (*facepalm*). Still, it's a REALLY good version, swingy/bluesy with some good vocal action.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I like him too so it could still be fun

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

If you were on a more reliable high speed, I'd try and email you the MP3. As it is, I could mail you a CD! :-)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i'm on the parent's dsl for at least another 2 weeks

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

I'll give it a try, then!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

ok cool

[enemytosleep]

I emailed my Irish bichon buddy to see if she might be able to help you with this. Her internet abilities are hit or miss, so sometimes she disappears for a few months and then comes back. I haven't seen her in a while so I'm not sure if she's on or not, but I'll let you know if she gets back to me.

Roy and Maes do something silly. Hm. What if they took a banana and ...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

oh cool thanks.

washed the cat. Was thinking of you and your job

oh hell no - Maes. - think of something else

(hoho/pinako is now up at fuh-q)

[rain-oubliette.livejournal.com]

We have Direct TV here - love Investigation Discovery. :) Much better than Tru TV. GAH!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes it is though i've come to the conclusion Dr. G is not really a very nice person and i'm glad I don't work for her

[rain-oubliette.livejournal.com]

Dr G is a bit mean-spirited. She tries to mask it in humor but it is still visible.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes, verymuch so like when she was doing an infant death and spent a half hour referring to the little girl as an it

[havocmangawip.livejournal.com]

The Northern Ireland exchange student is next door this year. The Wests paid for him to come even though he's "Aged out". He's 16, so probably knows quite a bit of slang.

Want me to pump his brain?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

sure if you want. thanks

[vikalia.livejournal.com]

Sorry, lurker here, I read your Full metal Alchemist fanfics and I felt bad for not thanking you so I to thank you I can give you some Irish slang since I live in Ireland.

There's a lot of Irish slang and it does differ alot depending on the area. There different slang for people from the North, Nordies; from Dublin, Dubs, Skangers*, sort of like chavs in Britain; Townies; country people (Culchies*), people who live in bogs or even more rural places (Boggers*) and Travellors (knackers*) sort of like Irish Gypsy, different group than Roma Gypsy, etc... The ones marked * are a bit pejorative.

I suppose general Irish slang would be like 'feck' - a much milder version of fuck i.e. feck off, fecker. Children can say feck and not be told off.
Generally cursing is not considered than bad here and people curse casually a lot. For example when someone tells you some unbelievable story you can respond with 'fuck off' which is like saying 'thats amazing that that happened'.

A plural you is, depending on region, you, ye, yis or yous

Your mother and father are called Ma and Da. The word 'one' or 'wan' can mean woman or just person so 'yer one' means 'that/the woman' like coming out of a shop 'yer one didn't give me the right money back'. Not used for every time you say woman.

Some random slang from my area
A rake of something = a lot of something
deadly= cool, fit = sexy
well/right sort of means very, 'its well cold in here', 'she's a right bitch'
go into town = go to Dublin, Story?=how are you?, 'how are you' is actually used more like hi
There are many many many phrases to be drunk: slashed, pissed, locked leglass, on the lash, banjaxed.......

There are some more phrases but I can't think of any right now except 'stinking to the high heavens'.

Wikipedia has an alright article on Hiberno-English but some of the slang is outdated or only for a specific area.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-English

Thanks for your great Fanfics. I hope this helps. If you want to know anything else you can ask.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thank you very very much.It's much appreciated it. feck has already made several apperances.

I just need a little to sprinkle in. Too much and American publishers won't touch it.this will definitely help.

and I'm glad you like my fanfic

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

I is not Irish but - I recommend youtubing some clips from the amazing Irish comedy show "Father Ted" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLTnacYvvg4) for some good slang.

For a younger voice and more up to date slang I
can recommend the Irish author Marian Keyes. She writes rom com so probably not naturally up your street, although there is well-written, plausible angst, comedy and a little smut too. But her narrators are generally young Irishwomen who use a lot of slang, and her novels sell in the States, I believe, so the editions you guys get (which might have had a few words changed from the British/Irish addition) would probably have about the right smattering of slang for you. Her website (http://www.mariankeyes.com) has extracts from her novels, so that'd be a quick way of looking at them.

Craic=fun
feck=I see you've already spotted this

Spoken Irish English also uses a slightly different word order, e.g. "Are you looking for that guy?" = "Is it that guy you're looking for?" "It's not done yet?" = "Is it not done yet?"

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

Just in case they don't let you onto the Youtube Channel 4 (UK TV channel) site, try here (http://www.youtube.com/user/FatherTedChannel) for Father Ted clips. I love that show.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

cool thanks

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

wonders if the library will have it.I can look. I can also look at halfprice b ooks.

yes, I've used craic too but the problem is i'm an idiot and I keep forgetting to use the slang except for feck. duh. revise revise revise.

I've noticed that same difference in Welsh as well, the the order of the words

THANK YOU

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

You could probably get a feel for the slang from the extracts on her website.

And you want to say "eejit" instead of "idiot". XD

Yeah, and Scottish/Scottish-inflected English does the same reversal of word order. As you probably realise, it's all from the same source - taking the word order of Celtic languages like Welsh and Gaelic and applying it to English.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

oh cool, never thought of that. Swear to god author's platforms are wasted on me.

Yes, well that makes sense of course

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

I need to hook you up with barry's cousin in ireland (she's on my facebook)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

oh cool. that might help