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I don´t mean to offend anyone, but most (if not all) of the Irish people that I know are incredibly gifted in the liberal use of profanities.

I was with Irish clients (husband and wife) looking at property for sale on the Costa Blanca last week, and within minutes of meeting me, they were swearing away. By the end of the day, I felt I knew them well enough to ask them why this trait was so prevalent amongst the Irish people in Spain that I had come across.

After much laughter, they explained that, to them, the use of 1 or 2 expletive words were just part of everyday language, and that it was fairly commonplace amongst their friends and colleagues.

Maybe it´s my reserved ´Englishness´ that made me sit up and notice, although with a name like Sean, I was very tempted to join in. Any excuse!




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9 May 2009 | 03:54
packie
said

my whole family is irish and we can say the nastiest meanest (and funniest) swear words EVER

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