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To: Liberty Valance
“Irish Diplomacy:
The art of telling someone to go to hell, and having
them look forward to the trip.”

Had a supervisor like that once, he'd call you into his office, criticize your work and call you a moron and make it sound like a compliment. It usually took about a 1/2 hour to realize “hey, he just insulted the crap outtta me”......................It's a real talent.

11 posted on 07/24/2014 4:58:36 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN

lol!


12 posted on 07/24/2014 5:04:00 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: V_TWIN

Working in the south, from ny, I was told I had a talent for telling people off without really letting them know that’s what I was doing. It wasn’t conscious, just normal...a polite amber of protecting coworkers and maintaining efficiency

I guess that’s Irish. Hmm


28 posted on 07/24/2014 6:51:12 AM PDT by stanne
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To: V_TWIN

it’s the accent ya fooghghink koounth. Though strangely enough, the Irish accent only soounds nice to us English speakers (and probably to Germanic and Italic speakers as well), but to Slavic speakers and Indic speakers it sounds bad, like the Scottish accent


37 posted on 07/25/2014 3:34:37 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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