Gaelic for please be quiet?

Subject: RE: Gaelic for please be quiet?
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 10:42 AM

You folks might like to know that the irish for a beak is 'gob'. So if you hear someone say, "cé acu is faide, gob an ghé nó gob an gandail? " you'll immediately know they mean that it's a case of 'six of one half a dozen of the other'.

Subject: RE: Gaelic for please be quiet?
From: MartinRyan
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 10:51 AM

The questioner was in KINVARA (Galway) where Scottish Gaelic is pretty scarce!

Regards

Subject: RE: Gaelic for please be quiet?
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 11:38 AM

What intellectual snobbery? There are polite ways and rude ways to tell people to be quiet. If it's not a language you speak, it's probably as well to know the difference in nuances. They can have quite contrasting effects on those around you.

Isn't opening with "My God preserve us" and criticising someone's usage when their meaning is clear a little snobbish too?

Subject: RE: Gaelic for please be quiet?
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Jan 09 - 02:31 PM

When we kids were talking out of turn and likely to reveal family-business before non-family visitors, we were told something that sounds like "nobby conch". could you give me the Gaelic spelling for this and the literal translation?

Subject: RE: Gaelic for please be quiet?
From: MartinRyan
Date: 05 Jan 09 - 03:36 PM

Probably "Ná bí ag caint" - which literally means "Don't be talking!" but translates as "Keep quiet!".

Pronunciation, using yours as a model would be "Nobby egg kaint!" or thereabouts.

Regards

Subject: RE: Gaelic for please be quiet?
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 05 Jan 09 - 10:54 PM

Thanks Martin, Would "Nobby egg kaint! be the way it is pronounced in Mayo? Is the pronunciation standard? It sounded to a Yank ear like "Na bi conch" Again, many thanks!

Subject: RE: Gaelic for please be quiet?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 06 Jan 09 - 01:37 AM

Yorkshire version, ' oi thee, shut thi gob '

eric

Subject: RE: Gaelic for please be quiet?
From: MartinRyan
Date: 06 Jan 09 - 03:00 AM

GUEST, guest,

You have a good ear, alright! I would pronounce the closing consonant as a slenderised (not the right word, but I know what I mean!) t . Others, depending on the regional accent (their own or their schoolteacher's) would make it a "ch" sound, as in "chicken"!

Regards

p.s. To your ear, also, the "egg" has just been elided into near-silence...

Subject: RE: Gaelic for please be quiet?
From: GUEST,Leannach
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 02:35 AM

I have a similar question, and I found your forum while searching online.

Can anyone tell me some basic Gaelic phrases that one might hear in a pub? I am working on a poem, and I need a few words of Gaelic.

Thanks!

Subject: RE: Gaelic for please be quiet?
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Feb 11 - 09:49 PM

that's the one ! I heard this from sun up to sun down in my house, growing up, thnx !

Subject: RE: Gaelic for please be quiet?
From: GUEST,tommydude2112
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 08:15 AM

Dún do bhéal agus na bi ag caint!

(pronounced: doon do veyl oguss nor bee egg coynt!)


Shut your mouth and don't talk!