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Police Scotland said:
I heard it was the Irish who brought bad grammar to these shores. Any truth in that?
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You're kinda right but in some cases there was no direct translation to english ie

The Hot News or After Perfect in Irish English
March 14, 2016
A characteristic feature of English grammar in Ireland is the so-called after perfect, also known as the hot news perfect or the immediate perfective. Popular throughout Ireland yet unfamiliar to most users of English elsewhere, it’s an idiosyncratic structure that emerged by calquing Irish grammar onto English. It has also undergone some curious changes over time.

The after perfect normally expresses perfect tense, using after to indicate that something occurred in the recent or immediate past, relative to the time of speaking or reference. It uses a form of the verb be, followed by after, then usually a verb in the progressive tense. BE + AFTER + [VERB]ING. I’m after meeting them means I met them a short time ago.

So I’m after summarising the after perfect. Now for some detail.


https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/irish-english-grammar/
 
Mick O'Toon said:
You're kinda right but in some cases there was no direct translation to english ie

The Hot News or After Perfect in Irish English
March 14, 2016
A characteristic feature of English grammar in Ireland is the so-called after perfect, also known as the hot news perfect or the immediate perfective. Popular throughout Ireland yet unfamiliar to most users of English elsewhere, it’s an idiosyncratic structure that emerged by calquing Irish grammar onto English. It has also undergone some curious changes over time.

The after perfect normally expresses perfect tense, using after to indicate that something occurred in the recent or immediate past, relative to the time of speaking or reference. It uses a form of the verb be, followed by after, then usually a verb in the progressive tense. BE + AFTER + [VERB]ING. I’m after meeting them means I met them a short time ago.

So I’m after summarising the after perfect. Now for some detail.


https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/irish-english-grammar/
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****ing ****ers. Why don't you go home???
 
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