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Dori
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| | Posted on Sunday, May 15, 2005 - 03:55 pm: | 
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A Chairde,
What would be the Irish for, "Once Upon a Time" and "Happily Ever After"? I could pick it out literally but am sure there must be an idiomatic phrase or two that captures the meaning.
Le Meas,
Dori |
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James
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Username: James
Post Number: 207
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, May 15, 2005 - 07:30 pm: |
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Fadó, Fadó is something I've seen translated as "long, long ago" which is pretty close to "once upon a time."
As for happily ever after...better wait for someone more accomplished than I am for that one!
Le meas,
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 1425
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 16, 2005 - 04:13 am: |
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It depends:
Once upon a time is a stock start for a tale.
Fadó, fadó is one possibility.
But more usually it would be:
Bhí (fear/bean/rí/prionsa/whatever) ann fadó, agus fadó do bhí. ... Rest of story ....
There are a number of stock endings to take the place of happily ever after.
Mhair siad go sona sásta as sin amach - "and they lived happily from then on" is simplest. But storytellers had a whole range of rhymes to end stories. |
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Cailindoll
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Username: Cailindoll
Post Number: 80
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 16, 2005 - 08:03 am: |
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Lá breá samhraidh . . . . seems to be a once upon a time substitute that starts many stories. |
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James
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Username: James
Post Number: 211
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 16, 2005 - 09:56 am: |
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Bhí fear ann fadó is how my copy of Séanna begins. I should have remembered that! |
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Dori
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| | Posted on Monday, May 16, 2005 - 01:18 pm: |
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Thank you all for helpful suggestions.
Dori |
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