Oíche mhaith tweepaí....?

Dean · **Joined:** Sun 03 Mar 2013 7:50 am **Posts:** 7

Someone keeps typing this on Twitter, and Google Translate made gibberish of it? Does it mean something?

Pangur · **Joined:** Sun 17 Feb 2013 6:21 pm **Posts:** 78

It means "Good night, tweeps".

An Cionnfhaolach · **Joined:** Fri 09 Mar 2012 6:16 pm **Posts:** 1527

Dean wrote:

Someone keeps typing this on Twitter, and Google Translate made gibberish of it? Does it mean something?

Oíche mhaith means "good night"

"Tweepaí" I would think is a pet name of some sort? Its half English, half Irish phonetically speaking. It sounds like a name that you would give a bird (an actual bird

, before Saoirse has somthing smart to say

) or a young girl/ lady whose a friend.

Crossed with Pangur!

Pangur · **Joined:** Sun 17 Feb 2013 6:21 pm **Posts:** 78

"Tweeps" is Twitter slang. It means your followers or just people who have a Twitter account.

An Cionnfhaolach · **Joined:** Fri 09 Mar 2012 6:16 pm **Posts:** 1527

Pangur wrote:

"Tweeps" is Twitter slang. It means your followers or just people who have a Twitter account.

Ah, ok. thanks for that! I know nothing about twitter!

Dean · **Joined:** Sun 03 Mar 2013 7:50 am **Posts:** 7

Ah, I see... so how would this be pronounced?

An Cionnfhaolach · **Joined:** Fri 09 Mar 2012 6:16 pm **Posts:** 1527

VERY Roughly,

uÍ-Ha va (Munster dialect) / UÍ-ha wa (Connacht Dialect) / UÍ-ha why (Ulster Dialect)

Someone might be able to do you a soundfile.

Redwolf · **Posted:** Wed 01 May 2013 3:45 pm

An Cionnfhaolach wrote:

VERY Roughly,

uÍ-Ha va (Munster dialect) / UÍ-ha wa (Connacht Dialect) / UÍ-ha why (Ulster Dialect)

Someone might be able to do you a soundfile.

For someone who doesn't speak Irish, I'd give that first syllable as "EE" (EE-hyeh va/wa/why)...otherwise they're likely to try to pronounce it OO-ee.

Redwolf

Saoirse · **Posted:** Wed 01 May 2013 5:29 pm

An Cionnfhaolach wrote:

It sounds like a name that you would give a bird (an actual bird , before Saoirse has somthing smart to say )

Gumbi · **Joined:** Tue 06 Sep 2011 8:09 pm **Posts:** 943

Redwolf wrote:

An Cionnfhaolach wrote:

VERY Roughly,

uÍ-Ha va (Munster dialect) / UÍ-ha wa (Connacht Dialect) / UÍ-ha why (Ulster Dialect)

Someone might be able to do you a soundfile.

For someone who doesn't speak Irish, I'd give that first syllable as "EE" (EE-hyeh va/wa/why)...otherwise they're likely to try to pronounce it OO-ee.

Redwolf

Yes indeed.

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