Time to visit Myrtle Beach in the summer again Jay! The majority of labor in the bars, stores, and parking lots is all Irish. Wonderful accent but very difficult to understand! It took three repeats before I understood that the parking lot attendent was actually trying to say 'three' in English for how many hours we could stay without paying more... :o) My daughter loved it. :o) Don't know why he never just held up three fingers...


>>>Our firm become a Microsoft partner. Today I needed to talk with a Microsoft worker from Ireland.
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>>>He only asked me an ID number and a phone number and I difficulty understood him. He wasn't talking like in the films or non-english speakers. I went to Taiwan and I can talk with chinese people in english but I couldn't talk with him (Microsoft's worker) even only two words. :((
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>>Take heart, Metin. WE can't understand the Irish either! :-)
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>Back in the mid-90s I worked in Manhattan and worked with an Irishman who came over weeks earlier with 3 of his cousins. We would sit around drinking lukewarm Guiness and they would talk on and on and I would constantly say, "Huh? What was that? Say that again." It took me months to understand most of what they were saying. And the drunker they got, the harder it was. His favorite phrase was, "Oh bullocks!" I think it's swearing, but since no one else knew what he meant, no offense was taken...