I just always think "take what you want from whatever you want."
Gareth:
Yeah, just believe what you want, I'm not bothered. It makes no difference to me.
Enya:
"Do you want to believe in life after death?"
Gareth:
Makes no difference.
Enya:
"Feel free. Reincarnation? Totally, let's go for it. Let's be cats in our next lives and sleep all day."
Interviewer:
Not everyone has to be a cat.
Gareth:
What would I be? What would I be?
Enya:
Oh sorry, you can be a butterfly.
Interviewer:
Well it could be the different, like, tiers of it, come on now. Take in all religions.
Enya:
I was just saying, like, if I want to be a cat, I'm gonna be a cat.
Interviewer:
Lazy, God.
Enya:
Well, it's my life already, isn't it?
Older speakers
Hilda:
I was going to say it but were brought up with right grammar.
Heather:
I-- even though it was--
Hilda:
Strict grammar.
Heather:
even though it was Doric you had to say the right thing, kind of-- Aye.
Interviewer:
Aye.
Hilda:
Oh, you never was allowed to--
Interviewer:
You'd get slapped roond the lug.
Heather:
Aye, just exactly.
Hilda:
You're never allowed to say it.
Heather:
No.
Interviewer:
Granny was the worst one for making sure you were speaking right grammar.
Heather:
Oh.
Hilda:
Fa?
Heather:
Her granny.
Hilda:
Oh. Oh I dinna like bad grammar, I na like it when bairns-- oh no.
Heather:
I ken. And that's the way, fann the bairn aie says--
Hilda:
"Done". But I thought that came fae Ireland, you ken?
Heather:
"Done". And I think "oh no, it's nae done, you did".
Hilda:
Their ma would say it, you see.
Heather:
"I done that", "we done that", "I done that." He did it. You're going to do it.
Hilda:
I ken, I used to do the same. I leave them noo 'cause I say, well, maybe they'll say to their ma and she'll say "well that's what I say."
Heather:
Aye.
Interviewer:
And then get offended.
Heather:
"I done that."
Hilda:
I mind on speaking to this-- on the phone to this woman in Ireland. She said "oh my grandchildren, their grammar!" That's over in Northern Ireland. "It's something else, it's terrible."
