My children go to a gael school and that is what they are still taught.
Start a new one. What about la brea?
Might sound like a silly question but I genuinely don't know.
Of course we all learned dia duit at school but surely in the 21st century the average Irish speaker doesn't go around saying the equivalent of God with you - do they?
Is there a widely accepted alternative - and one that isn't simply an 'hibernised' version of an English word?
Wow. No problem with it - just wierdly old fashioned and not at all suitable in many cases I would have thought?
I would have said Ce bhfuil tu also.
And to clarify, hello isn't around for a 1000 years. The only reason Hello came about was as a result of the telephone. People speaking to each other in different time zones could no longer say 'Good morning', or 'Good afternoon', etc, so they thought of a new word, hence 'hello'.
Also, I remember in an Irish school book, the word hello was used. I think it was a bit like TG4 Irish though, rather than actually being a translation i.e.
Kevin: Ah Sean, Ce bhfuil tu.
Sean: Ah sound Kevin, agus tusa.
Doing a little bit of lateral thinking, the Hebrew and Arabic words shalom and salaam mean something like peace, complete, full, welfare. A close-ish Irish word is slán as used in "Slán leat / Slán agat / Sláinte agus saol agat" meaning "Good Health / Good Luck / Health & Life to You" or "So long", "Goodbye".
Why not do like the Italians who use "Cioa" as both hello and goodbye (I know, "Pronto" / "Ready Now", on the phone) and say "Slán" as hello and goodbye.
or drop the inflationary 100,000 and just say "Fáilte" as hello.
Now all we need to do is change the Spaniards from "Adios" and we're suckin' Euro diesel, bhoy.
In Bavaria and Austria they use Gruss Gott "Greetings of God" (or something like that). I don't see anything wrong with keeping Dia duit - its the traditional way of greeting. Hopefully there aren't some ultra-secular Nazis lobbying to change it ;-)
It's not used in a religious fashion - much as in English "oh my God!" and "Jaysus" are generally not used in the religious sense of the term.
I had never heard that - is it the standard greeting though or just a possible greeting?In Bavaria and Austria they use Gruss Gott "Greetings of God" (or something like that).
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