Today I ran into a cool Irish translation for an English word thanks to Transparent's Irish Word of the Day.

Cá bhfuil an staighre beo?

The live stairs sounds so much more fun to use than the escalator.

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I'm a beginner, so corrections and suggestions are much appreciated!
"What? First we give a month to black history, now we're blowing seven days on the Irish!"
Pierce, upon hearing about Green Week

Yeah, staighre beo, staighre creasa is in FGB so it's not that new - good though!

How about cosán beo / cosán creasa for 'travelator' then?

A: Cá bhfuil an staighre beo?
B: Níl a fhios agam beo. *


(* Níl a fhios agam beo. = "I have no idea")

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

According to focal.ie, cosán beo is indeed the word for a moving walkway.

(We call those ‘rolling pavements’, which in English sounds a bit like something that might make you a bit seasick. Then again ‘living walkway’ in Danish sounds more like it’s supposed to be a walkway covered with plants than something that moves of its own accord, so I guess we’re even.)


A: Ná tabhair ‘Beo’ orm!




(Yah yah yah, I know, the vocative would have disambiguated it … I care not.)

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Not a native speaker.

Always wait for at least three people to agree on a translation, especially if it’s for something permanent.

My translations are usually GU (Ulster Irish), unless CO (Standard Orthography) is requested.

Sounds painful!

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Reminds me of my first visit to the UK as a kid, with a school group in the late 1960's. Everyone cracked up when we saw that an exit was marked as a "way out" (it was the 60's, remember, with expressions like "far out" being popular). Of course, when you think about it, "exit" is so pompously Latin and non-English sounding. I saw an explanation on TV a while back which mentioned how it came to be used in North American English, but I've forgotten the explanation. As I recall, it was one of those flukes where one person came up with the idea and it spread widely after that.

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I'm not a native (or entirely fluent) speaker, so be sure to wait for confirmations/corrections, especially for tattoos.

That's another case of being separated by a common language. In the States, "pavement" refers to the surface of the road...what you call "pavement" we call "the sidewalk."

Redwolf

Pavement in the UK, footpath in Ireland (though you will hear pavement every now and then)

"Footpath" in Oz as well.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Yup, true. Often shortened to path, too.