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YESTERDAY, ARAS AN Uachtaráin uploaded President Michael D. Higgins special St. Patrick’s Day address.
The whole thing was delivered as Gaeilge in Michael D’s trademark lilt and you can watch it below.
Now, as you may or may not be aware, YouTube offers automatic captioning on its videos.
And it seems that it had a bit of difficulty understanding what Michael D was saying, as evidenced by these unintentionally hilarious subtitles.
What he’s actually saying: “…beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig a sheoladh chuig muintirna hÉireann…”
What he’s actually saying: “Is é Lá ‘le Pádraig an lá go dtagaimidle chéile…”
What he’s actually saying: “…imirceach míle sé chéad bliain ó shin…”
What he’s actually saying: “…dúchais chun bailte agus chunpobailnua a bhunú i dtíortha thar lear…”
What he’s actually saying: “Tugann na paráidí agus an cheiliúradh a bhíonn ar siúl ibpobail…”
What he was actually saying: “…agusorthu siúd a bhfuil bá aguscaradasina gcroí acu…”
I was on a show that will bar a gift card Justin agree yuck
- you, sending a drunk text tonight
(Speech via here.)
Written by Amy O’Connor for DailyEdge.ie
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I must have the most childish sense of humour because that had me in stitches!
You’re not alone. I got a great laugh out of that.
Me too Sam. Hilarious.
I’ve no idea why I read them with a Jamaican accent playing in my head.
He’s talking Jive, like in Airplane
Was it leprechaun language
Molly oh god a Jamaican accent makes even funnier! I need to step away from this article before I’m committed!
A happy Gock Dinna iPhone to all flash drives today
Welcome to my world Sam :)
That doesn’t surprise me given the exaggerated upper class accent he has affected since he became president. Does he think his natural accent does not befit the office? In his recent trip to England he sounded more Received Pronunciation English than Irish.
His accent has nothing to do with it! He was speaking Irish, the youtube subtitling gizmo was trying to reproduce the sounds in English…..
He always spoke like that. So what?
Maybe the subtitling software found itself burdened with the impossible task of deciphering the Irish language as it is spoken by someone with an accent associated with the British and former Irish upper-class.
I dislike home more than any other politician in Ireland. It really irked me the other day when he suggested that the Irish people could feel hopeful for the future as growth was returning to the economy – if the government had followed the left-wing policies that he always advocates, naively, then there would be no growth and things would have gotten much worse.
*him
I like to think of Michael D and the missus watching this and laughing their asses off.
Almost as bad as his poetry.
First time a politician made any sense on TV?
He looks like Mickalene from the Quiet Man
Or her man in Darby O’Gill
Bloody hilarious!
Is the video blocked?
It’ll go viral if it’s not!
Well send them the proper translation then and stop whinging about it. Didn’t need a translation thanks.
You ok hun?
Read this back to the tune of Amhrán na bhFiann, it should be our new national anthem!
In other words, Aras an Uachtarain didn’t bother their @rses uploading their own Irish subtitles. How incredibly lazy and half-assed, cos it only takes a couple of minutes to do that.
With Enda being an ex teacher as well lol.
That’s hilarious !!! Although it’s also to be noted that the Irish you guys quoted is also spelt wrong in each section at least once!! #getanirishjournalist #callme
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