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Mike87aoh
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Username: Mike87aoh
Post Number: 1
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 07:01 pm: |   
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Please help with the literal and/or intended meaning of this phrase.
Go raibh maith agat.
Inseoidah mé dhuit é má cheannaíon tú deoch dhom! |
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Maidhc_Ó_g
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Username: Maidhc_Ó_g
Post Number: 263
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 07:35 pm: |
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Are you sure you spelled the first word right?
I'm not sure, but if I'm correct, she'll reenact the "auto-pilot" scene from the movie 'Airplane' on you if you buy her a drink. |
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Abigail
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Username: Abigail
Post Number: 58
Registered: 06-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 09:03 pm: |
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In case you haven't seen the movie (I haven't)...
Inseoidh mé dhuit é má cheannaíonn tú deoch dhom!
I'll tell you if you buy me a drink!
Spotted on a T-shirt somewhere, was it?
Abigail
Tá fáilte roimh chuile cheartú!
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Maidhc_Ó_g
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Username: Maidhc_Ó_g
Post Number: 264
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 10:14 pm: |
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Yikes! How could I be sooooo far off on that?!?! :-O
Funny movie though. |
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(Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 06:36 pm: |
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Thank you all for the translation. You are correct, was on a T-shirt from a popular Irish tavern in the Philadelphia area.
The spelling is as printed. I don't know if it is spelled correctly. I'll assume by the successful translation that it was.
This is as close as I got with my beginner status.
Inseoidah mé dhuit é má cheannaíon tú deoch dhom!
???????? I/me ??? if me ????????? you drink
Thanks again.
PS. I enjoyed that movie also! |
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Bethrua
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Username: Bethrua
Post Number: 18
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 10:51 pm: |
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I have a shirt that says: Ceannaigh beoir dom agus inseoidh mé duit...I was told that means "if you buy me a beer, I'll tell you". Assuming that someone will come up to you in a pub and ask what the saying means, you can get a drink out of the deal... |
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Cúcúc formerly ((Mac Léinn na Gaeilge) (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Friday, September 08, 2006 - 01:05 am: |
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Bethrua,
Probably a minor point, but the message on your T-shirt is more direct than Mike87aoh's in that the phrase on your T-shirt uses the command form of buy (ceannaigh). I think the T-shirt says "Buy me a beer and I'll tell you" and also, there is no "if" contained within the phrase. |
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 3697
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Friday, September 08, 2006 - 08:48 am: |
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Tá an cheart agat, a Chuach.
It also leaves open what you will tell them. It makes sense only in answer to a question.
e.g.
Cad as duit?
Ceannaigh beoir dom agus inseoidh mé duit! |
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