Discussion
coppice said:
Red Devil said:
Otoh you don't get the craic/banter afterwards in the evening. Horses for courses. Make two trips and get the best of both worlds.
Banter and craic ..or blokes being blokey about bloke stuff .coppice said:
The two worst words in the language !
The words are from different languages for a start. Craic is not easily defined or explained. If you try, you'll kill it off.
Worst word, eh? I mentioned that to my Irish friend.
I can't quote his reply. It might break the site's swear filter!
Craic is a word hijacked from Gaelic (I assume ) but now assimilated into English , just as status quo or a la carte. It carries a tragic subtext of half drunk blokes laughing too long and loud at stuff that isn't really very funny .
Anyway ...enough already (bit of a nod towards Yiddish usage there) I have now decided to make first week in June my special treat - Applecross, Ullapool , Kylesku and Altnaharra revisited - 33 years after my first trip North.But in R400 Seven now , not a Visa Super E ...
Anyway ...enough already (bit of a nod towards Yiddish usage there) I have now decided to make first week in June my special treat - Applecross, Ullapool , Kylesku and Altnaharra revisited - 33 years after my first trip North.But in R400 Seven now , not a Visa Super E ...
SmilerFTM said:
Crack is an English word nicked by the Irish and turned into Craic. We've then gone and pinched it back off them using their spelling instead of our own original one. It's not very old either, early or mid 1900's I think
Damn me - never knew that. So..an Englishman using the term craic is presumably somebody who once went to Dublin on a stag weekend (or knew somebody who did )and now feels compelled to affect the Irish usage so as to sound a bit of a Celt? Or something like that anyway... coppice said:
Damn me - never knew that. So..an Englishman using the term craic is presumably somebody who once went to Dublin on a stag weekend (or knew somebody who did )and now feels compelled to affect the Irish usage so as to sound a bit of a Celt? Or something like that anyway...
Yeah it's all a bit weird. Why we've taken up the Irish version I don't know. Maybe it's the whole Irish like to drink and have a laugh whereas we (English) are all lager louts and hooligans so let's sound more Irish as everyone likes a daft pisshead rather than an arse of a one.Gassing Station | Roads | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff