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Ailill

Irish clan leader's ahve a title which is simply "The". So the leader of the O'Connor Don Clan is styled:

The O'Connor Don.

BTW, Lynn, Éanna, what exactly does "jawohl" mean?
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Méabh

Ailill - ever see Full Metal Jacket?

Jawohl = Sir yes sir! in the military

but it's mostly used sarcastically in response to someone who is barking commands at you

Ja = yes
wohl = well

So it would be literally "Well yes!" but that's not the total meaning.

Split up sometimes to reverse a negative statement:

Das gibt's ja gar nicht! (That can't possibly be!)
Gibt's ja wohl! (Oh yes it can!)

Anything to add Enda? Mr. Green

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Dá fheabhas é an t-ól is é an tart a dheireadh.
However good the drinking, thirst is how it ends.

Ailill

Do waiters say jawohl?
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"Tá an saol mór lán den fhilíocht ag an té dar dual a thuigbheáil agus ní thráfaidh an tobar go deo na ndeor."
Seosamh Mac Grianna, Mo Bhealach Féin

Méabh

Hmm...good point. I have heard that a few times, but it really depends on the person who's waiting tables. That would be then the only time where it's used neither as an emphatic nor a sarcastic word, there it would like saying "roger wilco"; it's used in that case impassively, as you will Mr. Green

But - I must give the caveat that I have lived here in the North (Kiel/Hamburg/Bremen) for most of my time. The furthest south I've ever been is Frankfurt/Mainz and that was only a few days on holiday.
I really have no idea what the deal is for Bavaria or Baden Württemburg.
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Dá fheabhas é an t-ól is é an tart a dheireadh.
However good the drinking, thirst is how it ends.

Ailill

Yeah, that's why I asked. The last time I was in Munich I ordered some food and the waiter said jawohl with something of a flourish and I was wondering if he was taking the piss. I found it funny coz the only time I ever heard it before then was in WW2 movies.
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"Tá an saol mór lán den fhilíocht ag an té dar dual a thuigbheáil agus ní thráfaidh an tobar go deo na ndeor."
Seosamh Mac Grianna, Mo Bhealach Féin

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