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LOLing in Irish

optimistsdaughter:

inky:

A list of ‘popular Irish translations of modern phrases’. Some favourites:

  • LOL: GOA (gáire ós árd)
  • OMG: OMD (ó mo dhia)
  • YOLO: NASAA (níl ach saol amháin agat)
  • soz: brónsies
  • bbz: bbí (babaí)
  • whatevs: cadever

Day maker.

  1. genderbutt reblogged this from atrocementheatral and added:
    IRISH! I need the Scottish equivalent though.
  2. atrocementheatral reblogged this from clubjacobin
  3. clubjacobin reblogged this from maststocedartrees and added:
    Brónsies! Wow these are all pretty great in fact.
  4. emmieeee reblogged this from secretlystraightt
  5. themiddlebaudelaire reblogged this from optimistsdaughter and added:
    Sometimes I really wish I had paid more attention in Irish class
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  7. everybodygothicdance reblogged this from thesefewpresidents and added:
    saying YOLO definitely makes you terrible but i’m 100% ok with the idea of people yelling NASAA it’s probably some sort...
  8. thesefewpresidents reblogged this from hardcorefornerds and added:
    I just really like brónsies for some reason. Maybe the pointlessness of translating ‘soz’ into Irish by sticking an...
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  11. littlehellflames reblogged this from tiocfaidharlulz and added:
    “brónsies” omg.
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  15. iamnotaghost reblogged this from easpageag and added:
    Beautiful. Gonna start using brónsies gach an t-am.
  16. whatsthestorylittlebones reblogged this from hardcorefornerds and added:
    hahah go raibh maith agat
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  18. hardcorefornerds reblogged this from easpageag and added:
    ha, so that’s what YOLO means? had only seen it passing. I’m not so sure about ‘cadever’, that’s kinda dark.
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    Where were these when I was 14?
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