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Are people from Cork selfconscious bout their accents?

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    #62
    cjmcork
    Registered Users Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭cjmcork


    RebelArmy - just printed that out and now have it on my D4 noticeboard!

    THANK YOU!!!


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    #63
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    The knacker/scumbag variation exists for every dialect. I'm sure some french people sound sexy but to a local they would be considered scummers.

    A good cork accent has a lilting quality which has a tint of sarcasm in the intonation.


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    #64
    Eve_Dublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    OP, out of curiosity, are you from Dublin?


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    #65
    Dyr
    Registered Users Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    I'd imagine people from cork have more important things than their accent to be self conscious about


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    #66
    cjmcork
    Registered Users Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭cjmcork


    I love when Paul Byrne does interviews from Pana - invariably he'll find the Corkiest Cork people to talk on camera!


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    #67
    who the fug
    Registered Users Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    cjmcork wrote: »
    I love when Paul Byrne does interviews from Pana - invariably he'll find the Corkiest Cork people to talk on camera!


    Would you not expect Corkiest Cork people to be on Pana.


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    #68
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    Could be worse. We could have a Dublin accent.

    *shudder*


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    #69
    SteelyDanJalapeno
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    Out the gap


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    #70
    Show Time
    Registered Users Posts: 1,637 ✭✭✭Show Time


    It is the best accent in the world to impress the ladies.


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    #71
    Balmed Out
    Registered Users Posts: 4,713 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    From my younger single days I would say that its actually a very popular accent all over Ireland with the ladies. If I had a penny for evertime some girl told me she loved my accent but it just wasnt dark enough....


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    #72
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,246 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    gamgsam wrote: »
    The Cork accents are brilliant daycent, I love hearing them

    FYP :D


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    #73
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,246 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Show Time wrote: »
    It is the best accent in the world to impress the ladies.

    I love a good manly Cork accent!:D


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    #74
    BlaasForRafa
    Registered Users Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭BlaasForRafa


    leahyl wrote: »
    I love a good manly Cork accent!:D

    Theres no such thing. Cork men sound like they're going to burst into tears at a moments notice.


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    #75
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,246 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    BlaasForRafa wrote: »
    Theres no such thing. Cork men sound like they're going to burst into tears at a moments notice.

    :mad: I will not have you talk about Cork men in that way!!!:)


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    #76
    mikemac
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    who the fug wrote: »
    Would you not expect Corkiest Cork people to be on Pana.
    cjmcork wrote: »
    I love when Paul Byrne does interviews from Pana - invariably he'll find the Corkiest Cork people to talk on camera!

    What's Pana?


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    #77
    Cherry_Cola
    Registered Users Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭Cherry_Cola


    It definitely seems to attract the ladies more alright. Was like shooting fish in a barrel in Newcastle with a Cork accent.

    Some of my Dublin friends didn't do as well there interestingly :D


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    #78
    foxyboxer
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    mikemac wrote: »
    What's Pana?

    Cork Slang term for St Patricks Street. The city's main thoroughfare....feen :D


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    #79
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Had to go look up feen on urban dictionary as I didn't know what it meant
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=feen
    Feen

    Used by people who listen to other people who have no idea what they are talking about.

    Not very nice of you foxyboxer :mad:


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    #80
    Sofa King
    Registered Users Posts: 968 ✭✭✭Sofa King


    The Cork accent is fantastic, yes i am Cork born and bred. But i feel it's a great ice breaker with people you meet from outside of Cork as everyone seems to like the accent and the people.

    I'm in Galway about 6 years and it has worked wonders for me up here :) But saying that, i've kinda lost it a little bit and some people think it's a Kerry accent :mad:


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    #81
    mikemac
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    Sofa King wrote: »
    everyone seems to like the accent and the people.

    When people nod and smile at you it's because they can't follow what you are saying ;)


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    #82
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    I'm from donegal and i love the Cork accent, it sure beats the thick bogger accents of the vast majority of other southern counties accents (with exception to Kerry, its ok too)


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    #83
    murf313
    Registered Users Posts: 442 ✭✭murf313


    Cork accent is better than "salt of the earth" dub accent!

    salt of the earth = scumbag taxi driver


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    #84
    donalg1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,513 ✭✭✭donalg1


    Its not so much their accents that bother me, its the way they cant say more than two sentences without referring to "cork people", or the fact they are from Cork, Who cares that your from Cork, and anyway we can tell by your ridiculous accent that your from Cork


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    #85
    rounding tattenham Corner
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    Cherry_Cola wrote: »
    It definitely seems to attract the ladies more alright. Was like shooting fish in a barrel in Newcastle with a Cork accent.

    Some of my Dublin friends didn't do as well there interestingly :D

    Newcastle in North of England i presume, if so it's not really surprising as they found the only people in Europe with a more fu*ked up accent than their own.


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    #86
    volvoman480
    Registered Users Posts: 283 ✭✭volvoman480


    donalg1 wrote: »
    Its not so much their accents that bother me, its the way they cant say more than two sentences without referring to "cork people", or the fact they are from Cork, Who cares that your from Cork, and anyway we can tell by your ridiculous accent that your from Cork

    It's ok, I don't blame you, if I wasn't from Cork I'd be dead jealous too......:D


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    #87
    Dangerous Man
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    murf313 wrote: »
    Cork accent is better than "salt of the earth" dub accent!

    salt of the earth = scumbag taxi driver

    Mind your manners.


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    #88
    Show Time
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    leahyl wrote: »
    I love a good manly Cork accent!:D
    It has got me the ride a few times up and down the country.:)


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    #89
    GO_Bear
    Registered Users Posts: 966 ✭✭✭GO_Bear


    Met a girl on a J1 who was from cork and tried to suppress her cork a accent, we called her toffee mouth


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    #90
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    My accent is better than yours.

    My county is better than yours.

    My town is better than yours.

    Your mickey is smaller than mine.

    Who ****ing cares.

    Enough of these threads.


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