Is teanga bheo í an Ghaeilge - Irish is a living language
It is used all over the world every day of the week to send text messages
and that's what I'm going to talk to you about in this video
we're going to look at how to send a text in shorthand and some abbreviations
The Irish word for text is téacs
and to be actually texting is ag téacsáil
Cuirfidh sé téacs ar ais - He will text me back
Fuair mé téacs uaithi - I got a text from her
Let's look at some of the text abbreviations and shorthand now
our first one is grma
this is short for go raibh maith agat which is thank you
next we have cgl
these three letters are shorthand for ceart go leor, which means okay or all-right
cgl = ceart go leor
next we have shorthand for please which is
ldt
le do thoil which is please
next we have fmt which is
feicfidh mé tú (thú) which is I will see you
next
sgf which is slán go fóill, which I'd often say at the end of my videos, slán go fóill
bye for now
next we have das
in English you might see this in text messages as btw which is by the way
in Irish das stands for dála an scéil, by the way
Next we have
lol in English you would have probably seen that,
lol means laugh out loud, in Irish we would use the three letters here goa
ag gáire os ard - laughing out loud
next we have lmao which is English abbreviation and that is laughing my ass off
lmao laughing my ass off, Irish abbreviation to that would be
abmtag
ag briseadh mo thóin ag gáire
ag briseadh mo thóin ag gáire - breaking my . . . . . backside laughing
next we have the English abbreviation yolo
this means you only live once in English
but the Irish abbreviation then would be nasaa
níl ach saol amháin agat
you only live once or you've only got one life
and finally then we have
rofl
rofl is an English abbreviation rolling on the floor laughing
as gaeilge
rtug
rolladh timpeall an urláir ag gáire
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shorthand
abbreviations in the Irish language
Thanks very much for watching, slán go fóill, and I will see you soon.