A movie I believe was Irish but I don't know why I would think so.
I wish I knew the title, so I can find the movie. The problem however
is that I saw one scene of the movie, no more, and this was uncounted
years ago.
A man enters an apartment (flat) to collect his belongings, (clothes and such).
He encounters his ex-girlfriend. She quarrels with him, essentially
throwing him out of their apartment, with his belongings. As they quarrel
she speaks in English, but he mixes English with another language, I believe
to be Gaelic. Mostly his sentences start with English, and end words of another language (Gaelic?).
I can not give anymore details than I have. All I can recall is a man
and a woman quarreling. She throwing him out. The odd fact he was mixing
English with another language. I might have seen it about 6 or 7 years
ago, maybe longer. My apologizies for the vagueness of my clue.
Perhaps just as important or more, in urban Ireland, are there denizens
who mix Gaelic and English?
Stumpy the Rat!
By Guest on Sunday, January 13, 2002 - 07:36 am:
did the scene start with the guy saying
"Lucy! chu in a lotta trouble"?
By Guest on Monday, January 14, 2002 - 04:56 am:
Now in all seriousness, No this was not Lucy and Desi.
It was a drama, not a comedy. It was not an American movie, and not a Canadian movie. It was a foreign movie, subtitled in English and spoken in English by both actors. The movie made from about late 80's to mid 90's. It was not Spanish nor French, nor Italian, nor German. It was most likely urban Irish, but could also have been urban Welsh, or urban English which either would explain subtitling an English movie to compensate for strong accents and dialects for American audiences to follow the story line.
It would be great if I can find the movie title, but even more important is the answer to the question posed:
In urban Ireland, are there native speakers, who mix English with Gaelic in conversations? And in the instance given, have a tendency to speak more Gaelic in a heated arguement? And therefore independent movie productions may try to incorporate this in drama to capture true urban realities.
stumpy.
By Guest on Friday, January 18, 2002 - 12:48 pm:
I wish to take this opportunity to thank Norman Invader... Accordingly, there is or was a genre of film from the UK which fit the movie description I had given. It is very unlikely I would ever find the movie I described the scene from, and that is of lesser importance.
Thank you Norman Invader. If you find out more let me know. http://www.iftn.ie/ is the link to Irish movie/film database.
Stumpy!
By Guest on Friday, February 1, 2002 - 01:54 pm:
Acc (boss)
You may remove this discussion. I learned what I was seeking. . . This topic is now declared dead.
Thanks,
Stumpy!