You’re Grand
I knew this was coming of course but still, your first time is special.
It being only five minutes since I’m back living in Ireland I’m not up on distinguishing different Eastern European accents yet. In fact I probably shouldn’t even be calling them eastern when the Czech Republic is smack in the centre of Europe.
Being able to speak freely in my own accent again and be understood by everybody, give or take the people of Derry, is definitely a nice part of being home.
And having a fluent business conversation (about documents that prove I’m bringing into the country documents that prove I’m bringing into the country documents that…) with a former eastern European woman is a delight. She’s still a woman you understand, it’s the Europe being eastern that’s former - that part of Europe is now somewhere else.
Anyway being a pessimist I countered her positive streak that I had successfully met all kinds of criteria not even asked for with a sentence that began, But…
And then her accent slipped. Into almost a perfect Dublin one:
-Ah no, you’re grand.
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