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PostPosted: Mon 15 Feb 2016 10:23 pm 
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Anybody want to have a go at the above? Or should I just resign myself to the fact that it is untranslatable? :stoning:


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PostPosted: Tue 16 Feb 2016 10:05 pm 
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A literal translation won't have much meaning in Irish, but here's my attempt at it. The tricky part is translating the second half f it, as clearly "your" is implied, but not stated, presumably because it's an established phrase. I don't see any other way other than to be very literal to translate this, but of course it comes out pretty silly then.

A bhreagadóir, a bhréagadóir tá to bhristí trí thine (Oh) liar, (oh) liar, your pants are on fire

Translating such established phrases literally rarely works unfortunately.


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PostPosted: Tue 16 Feb 2016 10:28 pm 
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Seems to me the equivalent wouldn't be a translation so much as whatever rhymes Irish schoolchildren use to mock liars. I haven't a clue what these might be, but I did find this saying from Tír Chonaill:

An té atá bréagach, tá sé bradach. "A liar is a scoundrel."


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PostPosted: Tue 16 Feb 2016 10:32 pm 
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Domhnaillín Breac wrote:
Seems to me the equivalent wouldn't be a translation so much as whatever rhymes Irish schoolchildren use to mock liars. I haven't a clue what these might be, but I did find this saying from Tír Chonaill:

An té atá bréagach, tá sé bradach. "A liar is a scoundrel."


Always better to use an established phrase rather than literally translating one from language to the other :good:


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PostPosted: Tue 16 Feb 2016 10:49 pm 
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Exactly something rhyming would be good, because it's being used as a taunt (should have specified that, mo leithscéal).

I could throw in your phrase a Dhomhnaillín Breac, or try and form a rhyme out of it!

Bréagach, bréagach, is tú an bradach ??


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PostPosted: Wed 17 Feb 2016 12:15 am 
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Áine Óir wrote:
I could throw in your phrase a Dhomhnaillín Breac, or try and form a rhyme out of it!
er…The saying from Domhnaillín Breac already rhymes.

An té atá bréagach, tá sé bradach.


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PostPosted: Wed 17 Feb 2016 12:46 pm 
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I know, but it's more of a seanfhocal than a taunt that a child would say to another child, which is what I'm trying to come up with


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PostPosted: Wed 17 Feb 2016 3:28 pm 
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WeeFalorieMan wrote:
Áine Óir wrote:
I could throw in your phrase a Dhomhnaillín Breac, or try and form a rhyme out of it!
er…The saying from Domhnaillín Breac already rhymes.

Not in Munster, is muar an trua.


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PostPosted: Mon 22 Feb 2016 5:12 pm 
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In a Tintin comic there was an exchange something like this:

-"Béarfaidh mise greim ort!"
-"Beir greim ar mo bhroim!"
:D


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