{"id":24952,"date":"2026-10-17T13:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T19:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24952"},"modified":"2026-10-17T13:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T19:33:21","slug":"tired-discourse-irish-goodbyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/tired-discourse-irish-goodbyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tired Discourse \u2013 Irish Goodbyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/question.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24134\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/question.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/question.jpg 250w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/question-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>In January of 2025, the good folks at Defector.com\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/defector.com\/discourses-we-can-stop-having-ranked\">published<\/a>\u00a0a list of 35 topics that have been discussed to within an inch of their life here on the internet.\u00a0 Lucky for me, I haven\u2019t publicly commented on most, if not all, of these topics, so I figured why not dip my toes into the fray on occasion.\u00a0 We will continue today with the next question on their list:<\/p>\n<h3>Irish Goodbyes<\/h3>\n<p>First, let\u2019s define what this is.\u00a0 Google\u2019s AI bullshit says an Irish goodbye (also known as an Irish exit) &#8220;is the act of leaving a social gathering or party quietly and unannounced without telling the host or other guests.&#8221;\u00a0 The term originated in America in the 19th century as a derogatory idiom despite bearing no relation to the behavior of actual Irish folks.\u00a0 So, is it acceptable?\u00a0 I guess it depends on the size of the gathering.\u00a0 If there&#8217;s, say, 20 or more people at said gathering, feel free.\u00a0 Nobody should particularly notice.\u00a0 If it is a smaller gathering, then you should probably just face the music and say a proper goodbye, even if it is to the group as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January of 2025, the good folks at Defector.com\u00a0published\u00a0a list of 35 topics that have been discussed to within an inch of their life here on the internet.\u00a0 Lucky for me, I haven\u2019t publicly commented on most, if not all, of these topics, so I figured why not dip my toes into the fray on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9956,3592],"class_list":["post-24952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkeytalk","tag-defector","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24953,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24952\/revisions\/24953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}