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  1. Mick O'Toon

    Mick O'Toon Well-Known Member

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    You're kinda right but in some cases there was no direct translation to english ie

    The Hot News or After Perfect in Irish English
    March 14, 2016
    A characteristic feature of English grammar in Ireland is the so-called after perfect, also known as the hot news perfect or the immediate perfective. Popular throughout Ireland yet unfamiliar to most users of English elsewhere, it’s an idiosyncratic structure that emerged by calquing Irish grammar onto English. It has also undergone some curious changes over time.

    The after perfect normally expresses perfect tense, using after to indicate that something occurred in the recent or immediate past, relative to the time of speaking or reference. It uses a form of the verb be, followed by after, then usually a verb in the progressive tense. BE + AFTER + [VERB]ING. I’m after meeting them means I met them a short time ago.

    So I’m after summarising the after perfect. Now for some detail.


    https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/irish-english-grammar/
     
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  2. Girvan Loyal 1690

    Girvan Loyal 1690 Nobody's safe now

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    ****ing ****ers. Why don't you go home???
     
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  3. Mick O'Toon

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    I did years ago.
     
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    monacoger POTY 2021

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    Thanks :emoticon-0150-hands
     
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  6. Mick O'Toon

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    Can't see it but can imagine it won't be too flattering,reported.
     
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    shamelessly stealing this one to tell at the lodge :laugh:
     
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  8. monacoger

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    Big Tuna gets banned from Weight Watchers again for being her usual crude self.

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    Gambol back in the day when he was more respectable

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    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    <laugh>

    Isn't Simon the resident piss artist around here?
     
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    Only when you are on your naked diving holidays and we know what he looks like, so if you post a pic of yourself, I will edit the post accordingly to make it say Mick O'Toon<ok>
     
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    Even wee Harembe doesn't like the ****s

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    Toby after too many snorts of Ketamine

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  16. Mind The Duck

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    Wid
     
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    oooooooft that **** has a doozy of a hole in his face man
     
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    Or that hole has a doozy of face of a man on it ...
     
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    Poof
     
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