"Be silent"-- but not in the "shut up" connotation

beagle · **Joined:** Mon 05 Sep 2011 1:45 am **Posts:** 267

All of them are good, a lot depends on the tone of voice when said

kkee · **Joined:** Sat 22 Mar 2014 9:38 pm **Posts:** 4

Bríd Mhór wrote:

Redwolf wrote:

I would simply say "Bí ciúin"...or perhaps, in the more Zen-like way, "Bí suaimhneach." Either can mean "Be silent" as in "Be tranquil."

If you literally want silence, so that you can contemplate/meditate, I would say "Bí ciúin".
Like Braoin said, in Irish, if somebody wants you to shut-up they'll probably say something else :LOL:

It is more like I am telling myself to shut up!

...But in that "Keep your trap shut so you don't get yourself in trouble/be more mindful" kind of way.

Saoirse · **Posted:** Sun 23 Mar 2014 10:02 pm

Fan i do thost = stay quiet. Just to throw another into the mix......

Breandán · **Posted:** Tue 25 Mar 2014 1:01 am

Redwolf wrote:

kkee wrote:

I have gotten the following in the other forum:

Téigh chun ciúnais

I am making a framed piece to hang over the door in my office to remind me of this approach as I go to meetings and the like!

What you have there doesn't work, in any case. It means "Go to silent," and "ciúnas" is misspelled.

Redwolf

I don't think it means what is intended but it is gramatically correct and parallels the pattern:

dul chun donais literally "go to the bad" "get worse". Chun takes the genitive.

Lughaidh wrote:

bí i do thost

This was my first thought also. :yes:

franc 91 · **Posted:** Tue 25 Mar 2014 10:26 am

Following on from the suggestion - Bí i do thost, may I suggest, especially if it's a slogan that's to be posted up in an office - Is binn béal ina thost - which is the equivalent of -silence is golden. Could you say something like - keep your own counsel to yourself or be discreet?

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