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* ''admhaigh'' 'to acknowledge' is also used for 'to thank' (with the dative preposition ''do'' for the person who is thanked), like Hebrew הודה ''hoda'' 'to acknowledge; to thank'. (Some say this is a natural development of the sense 'to acknowledge the receipt of'.). ''Admháil duit'' is a common synonym of ''go raibh maith agat''. | * ''admhaigh'' 'to acknowledge' is also used for 'to thank' (with the dative preposition ''do'' for the person who is thanked), like Hebrew הודה ''hoda'' 'to acknowledge; to thank'. (Some say this is a natural development of the sense 'to acknowledge the receipt of'.). ''Admháil duit'' is a common synonym of ''go raibh maith agat''. | ||
Both Talman and Cualandian Irish jokes may start with a cleft construction, which marks the sentence as new information: Siúl isteach i mbeár a rinne fear lit. 'it's walking into a bar that a man did', as in French (c'est un mec qui rentre dans un bar 'it's a guy who walks into a bar') and Irta Hebrew (בוא בא איש אל בית-משתה). | Both Talman and Cualandian Irish jokes may start with a cleft construction, which marks the sentence as new information: ''Siúl isteach i mbeár a rinne fear'' lit. 'it's walking into a bar that a man did', as in French (''c'est un mec qui rentre dans un bar'' 'it's a guy who walks into a bar') and Irta Hebrew (בוא בא איש אל בית-משתה). | ||
(*) At times even more so, reflecting a time when CF-Trician Tsarfati Jews considered literary Irish (rather than Ăn Yidiș) to be their secular alternative to literary Hebrew. (A typical pre-modern Cualand Tsarfati household often had a Hebrew-English-Irish trilingual siddur.) When they wrote in Irish they sometimes wrote in a way that sounded fancy to them. | (*) At times even more so, reflecting a time when CF-Trician Tsarfati Jews considered literary Irish (rather than Ăn Yidiș) to be their secular alternative to literary Hebrew. (A typical pre-modern Cualand Tsarfati household often had a Hebrew-English-Irish trilingual siddur.) When they wrote in Irish they sometimes wrote in a way that sounded fancy to them. | ||
==== Vocabulary ==== | ==== Vocabulary ==== | ||
A slight majority of Cualand's Irish speakers are not Catholics; they tend to be Remonitionist, irreligious or Jewish. Thus many overtly Catholic expressions are not used (e.g. ''urnaí'' is preferred over ''paidir''), or have lost their Catholic connotations (for example, minced oaths). | A slight majority of Cualand's Irish speakers are not Catholics; they tend to be Remonitionist, irreligious or Jewish. Thus many overtly Catholic expressions are not used (e.g. ''urnaí'' is preferred over ''paidir''), or have lost their Catholic connotations (for example, minced oaths). | ||