Ag caint as gaeilge on the DART.

Had a very unusual experience on the DART this evening. Was taking the train home as I normally do, minding my own business and with my brain pretty much in neutral, when I notice something rather unexpected. There were two girls standing beside me chatting away, in irish! This is not something you ever really hear in real life, as apart form TG4 and the few Gaeltachts scattered around he country, most ppl can't speak Irish worth a damn! Granted it wasn't 100% pure Irish, was maybe 3/4 irish with 1/4 english words thrown in, but still way more than you'd normally hear.

The funniest part tho was looking at the reactions of all the other people on the DART. You could straight away spot the foreigners, as they were ignoring all this, being unaware really that hearing someone speaking Irish was not a normal thing - or even not recognizing it as Irish (you hear so many languages around these days). The other Irish ppl tho were equally easy to spot, with their ears pricked up and looks of concentration on their faces as they recognized someone speaking irish and tried to unobtrusively eavesdrop and try to figure out what they were saying! And looks of puzzlement as well as they tried to remember a language they hadn't spoken or used since leaving school!

The conversation as far as I could make it out was about some house party at the weekend where one of their friends had been going stuff with some guy that they thought she shouldn't have. Or something like that. More proof that no matter what language, most female conversations are full of crap that we guys don't really care about listening to anyway :-P