Irish Conversation in the American Midwest #4
Leaves Changing Colour
-I love spring; It’s just so wonderful, don’t you think?
-It is quite nice yeah. It’s certainly colourful
-Oh you should see fall, it’s much more colorful
-Well I have been here a few years; I have seen fall
-Isn’t that so neat? When the leaves change their color?
-It can be very striking. The last couple weren’t great ones though.
-Do you have that in Ireland?
-What? fall?
-The phenomenon where the leaves change their colors. Does that happen in Ireland?
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Eolaí gan Fhéile:
Please tell me these overheard conversations are just you using your creative side. PLEEEEASSSE!
I feel such “pride” to be a Midwesterner when I read them.
Sorry - verbatim. The really bad ones I’m not publishing because nobody would believe me.
They’re very specific to the individual involved and not meant to be a general swipe against midwesterners - I could do something similar in Ireland with certain individual Irish people speaking of the American midwest, but this is where I am and this is what I hear.
Durn it. I was afraid of that.
Actually, I’ve wondered whether there are sugar maples in Ireland, or other kinds of maple trees. They’re so characteristic of fall here, and I never saw them in France or Germany…
Our sycamores are not the same as American Sycamores - much like European robins and American robins being completely different birds.
Our sycamore trees are actually really maple trees and are very common. You should have seen these in Germany too.
The American sycamore is a completely different tree, and our sycamore (well European, it’s not native to Ireland only having come in from central Europe a couple of hundred years ago) is called a Sycamore Maple in the US.
I’m fairly sure we don’t have Sugar Maples though.
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Ha ha. I spent 6 years in Tokyo, mainly arguing that, yes, countries other than Japan also have 4 seasons.
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Hehe. No, totally different leaves here. Blue ones. Always blue.
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Oh my!
A Scottish Captain asked me on hearing that I had moved to Sweden, “Do they have Christmas in Sweden?” Not limited to Ireland or the Midwest!