{"id":464,"date":"2007-08-15T19:20:30","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T18:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/15\/office-speak\/"},"modified":"2007-08-15T19:20:30","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T18:20:30","slug":"office-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"Office Speak \/ B\u00e9arlagair na hOifige"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishjobs.ie\/about\/survivalguide.asp\">a useful site<\/a> that has Irish versions of some popular phrases used in offices, some of which are words of wisdom from that great leader, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/comedy\/theoffice\/characters\/profile_david.shtml\">David Brent<\/a> of the BBC comedy series, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/comedy\/theoffice\/\"><em>The Office<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few examples:<\/p>\n<p><em>Mura n&#8217;\u00e9ir\u00edonn leat an ch\u00e9ad uair, faigh r\u00e9idh leis an bhfianaise go ndearna t\u00fa aon iarracht.<\/em><br \/>\nIf at first you don&#8217;t succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried.<\/p>\n<p><em>N\u00ed bot\u00fan \u00e9, is deis foghlama \u00e9<\/em><br \/>\nIts not a mistake, it&#8217;s a good learn<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00c9irim tuirseach den obair go h\u00e9asca, mar sin caithfidh post m&#8217;aird a tharraingt<\/em><br \/>\nI get bored easily so a job really needs to keep my interest<\/p>\n<p><em>B\u00edodh a fhios agat cad iad do chuid teorainneacha agus b\u00ed s\u00e1sta leo. Cialla\u00edonn barra\u00edocht uaillmhianta ard\u00fa c\u00e9ime chuig post nach mbeidh t\u00fa in ann aige.<\/em><br \/>\nKnow your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can&#8217;t do.<\/p>\n<p><em>Chlis an tiomant\u00e1n crua agus chaill m\u00e9 mo chuid teachtaireachta\u00ed r\u00edomhphoist go l\u00e9ir<\/em><br \/>\nThe hard drive crashed and I lost all my emails<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I found a useful site that has Irish versions of some popular phrases used in offices, some of which are words of wisdom from that great leader, David Brent of the BBC comedy series, The Office. Here are a few examples: Mura n&#8217;\u00e9ir\u00edonn leat an ch\u00e9ad uair, faigh r\u00e9idh leis an bhfianaise go ndearna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,127,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-irish","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}