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STEED
03-02-06, 06:19 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4765774.stm

better language skills :huh:
Tchocky
03-03-06, 02:49 PM
Makes plenty of sense to me.....
Type XXIII
03-03-06, 04:04 PM
Won't a large part of those Irishmen be speaking English as their second languge?
Tchocky
03-03-06, 04:37 PM
Won't a large part of those Irishmen be speaking English as their second languge?

English is the primary language of Ireland
STEED
03-03-06, 04:43 PM
Don’t forget the accent :hmm:
Tchocky
03-03-06, 04:45 PM
Don’t forget the accent :hmm:


hmph?
STEED
03-03-06, 04:57 PM
Don’t forget the accent :hmm:


hmph?

a way of pronouncing words that indicates the place of origin or social background of the speaker
Rotary Crewman
03-04-06, 06:10 AM
Be Jeasus, would you look at dat, ya order didn't go froo rioght. I'll get rioght onto it
STEED
03-04-06, 06:18 AM
Be Jeasus, would you look at dat, ya order didn't go froo rioght. I'll get rioght onto it

:rotfl:
Tchocky
03-04-06, 03:51 PM
Don’t forget the accent :hmm:


hmph?

a way of pronouncing words that indicates the place of origin or social background of the speaker

Just wondering why an Irish accent is any different/better/worse than an English one.....
STEED
03-04-06, 04:19 PM
Hard to tell you I have encountered many types, to put in a nut shell some are very hard to understand but hey it's the world over I know people up in Scotland and one of them I can only make some of what he's saying and that's when he is sober. :)