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That even applies to variants of English. I'm Irish, so I speak Hiberno-English. After the company I worked for was acquired by a California startup my new bos
by Kudos 8y ago
That even applies to variants of English.
I'm Irish, so I speak Hiberno-English. After the company I worked for was acquired by a California startup my new boss wanted to welcome this new Irish contingent. At the tail end of a keynote speech he delivered at our first off-site he uttered the phrase "build great shite".
He tried to put an Irish slant on things, except the word shite only has negative connotations, it is not a general substitute word like shit can be.
- aswanson 8y agoHilarious.
- estomagordo 8y agoLet's get shite faced!
- evincarofautumn 8y ago“Great” also doesn’t help in this case, since in Hiberno-English (at least to my American ear) it sounds emphatic, not descriptive—that is, “shite” = “shitty stuff”, “great shite” = “extremely shitty stuff”.