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So I was watching Mary Poppins today, on a DVD with subtitles.
During the fox hunt scene (inside the chalk drawing), Bert rescues the fox and brings him up onto his horse's tail (withers? whatever). The fox--which is clearly intended to be a Gael of some sort, probably Scots--turns around and starts yelling abuse, including calling the still-pursuing dogs something that is transliterated as "omadauhns".
Given that one derivation of "O'Madadhain" translates "Madadhain", IIRC, as basically "X's dog" (for some value of X I don't remember offhand), and given the context...yup, that's what he said.
I am vastly amused. Vastly, I tell you.
Update:
First: I misspelled the subtitle: it's "omadhaun".
Second: while "omadhaun" (also spelled amadan) sounds (I infer) a lot like "O'Madadhain", the semantics are both somewhat different and quite appropriate to my announcement: it means something like "idiot", "fool", "goofball", or "mindless [one]", depending on whether you're talking about current usage or the original myth-infused meaning. It is also apparently (and not coincidentally) the name of a now-defunct? Irish band.
I am now even more amused, on a sort of meta-level.
During the fox hunt scene (inside the chalk drawing), Bert rescues the fox and brings him up onto his horse's tail (withers? whatever). The fox--which is clearly intended to be a Gael of some sort, probably Scots--turns around and starts yelling abuse, including calling the still-pursuing dogs something that is transliterated as "omadauhns".
Given that one derivation of "O'Madadhain" translates "Madadhain", IIRC, as basically "X's dog" (for some value of X I don't remember offhand), and given the context...yup, that's what he said.
I am vastly amused. Vastly, I tell you.
Update:
First: I misspelled the subtitle: it's "omadhaun".
Second: while "omadhaun" (also spelled amadan) sounds (I infer) a lot like "O'Madadhain", the semantics are both somewhat different and quite appropriate to my announcement: it means something like "idiot", "fool", "goofball", or "mindless [one]", depending on whether you're talking about current usage or the original myth-infused meaning. It is also apparently (and not coincidentally) the name of a now-defunct? Irish band.
I am now even more amused, on a sort of meta-level.
