From: tang@akofin.enet.dec.com (Gabe Tang)
Subject: Re: E.W. - Weddings....
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: 11 SEP 92 10:01:11 EST


re: (Emma Williams) .....
> 
>>	Whaddayamean......just-over-on-the-boat doesn't count as being Irish??
> 
>		Sorry, I was referring to the 1st/2nd generation 
>	Americans, not the ones who just emigrated!  Mind you, I have
>	a friend who claims that even they are not Irish any more as 
>	they aren't paying taxes over here to support the economy and 
>	are also responsible for the brain drain. I don't agree...it's
>	not their fault....it's the government's fault!

	Not true. Sean still sends money to his family in Dublin. For a
	while he was supporting his brother over here, but alas, even he
	became tired of paying for a guy who wouldn't work or even look for
	a job for almost 2 years in the US. He figured it was better to let
	him go back on the dole in Ireland and supplement the family income
	with his US dollars. So there.....some (quite a few) of them still 
	channel money back into Ireland. Moreover, he's now legal, having
	recently married an American woman. 
	I can recall the moment he passed his brother the 1-way ticket for
	home.......the look on the brother's face.......priceless. He saw
	all his free-loading, sleep-in, free-drinking good-life days go up in
	smoke!!  

>	I've noticed that before with Americans. They claim that when a 
>	group of Irish people are together that we speak too quickly and
>	use weird slang.  Hey, we have problems understanding some of 
>	your weirder accents too!:>

	Slang is slang, no matter where you go. If you've never heard the
	colloquialism, you wouldn't understand what was spoken either. Now, 
	if I were a 'git, then I'd have a problem. But, if you were to write 
	it down, it wouldn't get high grades in a standard writing exam.
	Accents are a different problem. Most accents can be understood since
	it typically involves different stress and tone of syllables and
	vowels. It's usually the combination of accent and slang that throws
	most people off, not just the accent.  ;^0
	So, would we have any difficulty with your accent, or do you
	have a wonderfully melodious and lyrical tongue as so many of the
	other Irish/Irish-descendant women in Boston have?  ;^)

>>	Welllll, I thought of that later on. Still, over there, you can't
>>	be drinking as much if they close the pubs early. In the US, things 
>>	go much later into the night. Of course, the beer is lower in alcohol 
>>	content, but we drink twice as much to make up for that!  8^*
> 
>	Okay, so our pubs close at midnight but the night is by no means 
>	over!!  We then hit the clubs which are open till dawn and which
>	have wine licences....with the added attraction of good rave music
>	and dance music!:)

	Oh gosh, a city-girl. And a college-girl too! Sounds like an expensive
	night out. How many punts to the dollar? ;^))

>>	Tell you what, if you ever visit, I'll buy, I'd like to see what you
>>	look like with a pint in each hand.......wouldn't be able to slap
>>	my free hand....ah, er, I mean dart hand.  :-)))
> 
>	Bit difficult as I don't drink beer.....now if it was champagne,
>	that'd be a different matter!:)

	See, I knew it.....with Emma, money is no object!!! :-))
	Of course, with a magnum in each hand, instead of a pint, I'll 
	probably be blinded by that set of headlights and will have to grope
	along to the oche.  8-}

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