MasterDex

Yeah, it's still a fish here too. Best fish there is! Shame most of the 'Cod' you buy in the store now is only like 20% Atlantic Cod and 80% Whiting/Haddock. It's going extinct from overfishing. ...Too tasty to stop fishing it though. Indeed, yoke is still yoke. Can be confusing if all the meanings are used together. "Last night, I was eating an egg and was about to drop a yoke when the yoke dropped into the yoke. The yoke ended up covered in yoke but luckily I had a yoke handy that I could use for cleaning the yoke off the yoke." Hot_Heart is a ninja!

I think the Zee/Zed thing is another British English vs American English thing. Both pronounciations are used here in Ireland. As for Haitch vs Aitch, this is what wikipedia has to say about it: Here's some more Irish-English I thought of since last night: Banjaxed/Knackered=Broken or tired - "Me car's banjaxed from all the potholes" "I'm knackered after all the drinking last night" Cod=A Joke - "Your man is some cod, so he is." Footpath=Pavement/Sidewalk Hot Press=Airing Cupboard Strand=Beach Yoke=Used as a placeholder in the same way thing is - "Grab that yoke there, will ya.". It's also slang for ecstasy pills - "Any yokes, lad?" Jacks/Bog=Toilet Blagard/Blaggarding=A messer/messing. We also use a few brand names to refer to general objects. Most off-road 4x4s are called jeeps, even if they're not actual Jeeps. Hoover is commonly used to refer to vacuum cleaners and tayto (The biggest Irish brand of crisps) is often used to describe any crisps/potato chips. I think we have some great swearwords too. Here are a few examples: Feck=The equivalent of Fuck but both are used commonly. Feck tends to be used in a more mild manner. For example, if I made a mistake playing TF2 and died because of it, I'd say "Feck it!" but if my PC got infected with a virus I couldn't remove, I'd say "Fuck it!". Feck is treated so mildly relative to fuck that many parents will have no problem with their teenage child using the word but would scold them for using 'Fuck'. Gobshite=Like Eejit and Amadán, it means fool. We have a lot of gobshites, eejits and amadáns in Ireland. Shite=Shit Gombeen=Corrupt, dubious person "Bertie Ahern is a Gombeen". I'll end by adding some more terms for drunk: Fluthered (Flu-Turd) Locked Paralytic Plastered Scuttered I thought of one more thing that might be of use to any single people looking to hook up in Ireland. As a youngster, this was probably the most embarrasingly confusing to learn. If you want to french kiss (or as they'd say in the UK: A snog) someone you might say you want to shift them. More common to say nowadays however would be to meet them. So someone might ask if ya shifted anyone when you were out drinking or more confusingly ask if you met anyone. Replying with something like "Yeah, I met my friend Jim last night" as a pronounced straight man will more than likely lead to some funny looks.

Ahh yeah! Forgot about trainers!. That's completely logical. We don't make that distinction here in Ireland, we tend to use both chips and fries interchangeably. Yeah, It seems here in Ireland that we use Debs and Prom in the opposite way the US does where, I believe (though I'm probably wrong), a debs is an adults ball rather than a graduation ball. Also in that 'Gap Yah' video: On the lash=Out getting drunk. Lashed=Drunk.

Yeah, it basically means fun or entertainment. The phrase "What's the craic" is used in place of "What's up" but taken literally, it would mean "Anything fun/interesting happen you?" so if I was to say "Well man, what's the craic?", I'd be asking if you got up to anything fun since the last time we spoke or if you were up to anything fun at the moment. Other common ways it's used would be "That was great craic!" or "We had some craic last night, didn't we?" or "Joe is some craic, isn't he?" Eejit is a great word though. I like the true Irish word for Idiot as well, it's also often used when speaking in English here. It's Amadán (Aw-ma-dawn). No-one butchers the English language (or can turn a phrase) quite like the Irish can (Sorry America! ): http://www.slang.ie/

For all of 10 seconds....unless I'm running for my life.

Up until like 2 weeks ago I was smoking 20-30 a day. I've cut that down to a morning smoke with my cup of tea. I was off them completely for a few days until one night of drinking. I started back when I was around 12 or 13 just out of curiosity rather than any attempt to be cool but that soon changed to trying to be cool and I started smoking heavily. I think I need to give up multiplayer gaming for a while if I'm serious about quitting, nothing drives the stress level up by playing with incompetant teammates, lol. Believe it or not, out of all the times I've tried quitting and all the different methods I've tried, I found weed has done the best job of making me cut down and quit. It was weed that made me go from 20-30 a day to 5 a day within a week.

Quoting back a bit here but the way I was thought in school was that the -ize suffix is more appropriate whereas there are certain words that only the -ise suffix is correct. For example, I'd always spell Civilized with the -ize suffix and would likewise, never spell advertised with the -ize suffix. How about we make this a three-way - English vs English vs 'That bloody language that was forced down our throats' aka English The letter 'H' is pronounced as 'Aitch (A-itch)' in British English and American English, right? In Ireland, we pronounce it 'Haitch (Hey-itch)'. It's so ingrained in us that I was convinced for years it was the correct way to pronounce it until I was rightly set straight on our beloved Kotaku... And here's the thread from the recesses of the web! The thread also features a great Irish slang - Eejit. It's not a Gealic word but rather what our cursed tongues have done to the word idiot, though strangely enough we still say idiot quite well. One last one on the Irish front is 'craic' (pronounced crack). It means fun. So next time some Paddy comes up to you and asks if there's any craic around, chances are he's just looking for a good pub to rest his arse and not some drugs. I didn't see Runners mentioned either, In the US, you'd call them sneakers. Also, there's chips and fries, crisps and chips and taps and faucets. Also, this may be more of an Irish thing than a British thing but over here we don't have a Prom when we're finishing school, we have Debs. Which reminds me, We don't have highschool, we have secondary school and we don't have grades, we have years.

Ha! These are great! Keep up the good work!

God of War is handy enough to play. It can be challenging but it's not what I'd call a hard game. If you're looking for something much easier, I'd recommend Ratchet and Clank or Daxter, they're not great examples of their series but they're decent enough. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII is pretty easy to play too, as is Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep.

Yeah, signed up but never activated the account, I'm lazy that way. Hate checking my email, lol.

Hi all! I've been meaning to sign up here for a while but I kept putting it off. You can call me Dex or MasterDex, either is fine by me - Master sounds a bit masochistic. I'm primarily a PC gamer but enjoy all that gaming has to offer. I wager a good many of you here already know me so I won't write a lengthy introduction. You either love me or hate me....or feel completely indifferent about me. Whatever the case, chances are you've seen me around Kotaku so you can decide for yourself. It's good to be here after promising to sign up for so long, I look forward to joining in the discussions. Oh yeah, Kotaku's new layout sucks! B)