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  • #32
    Claire121
    Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭Claire121


    I was ****ing demented! And the manager said to her "Oh she speaks good English!" No one knew where she was going except i!!!!!! I still directed her though, fecking cvnt!!!! I should have told her to kiss my fecking black ass!

    That's so rude. Where are you from? I get stuff like that all the time. People speaking really slowly and loudly and talking to me like I'm an idiot. They look SO embarrassed when I answer them in flawless English. I have no idea why people here assume that because you don't look Irish, you mustn't speak English. It's really ignorant. How do they know I'm not American/Canadian/Australian/British etc? Or, like many people these days, Irish born with foreign parent(s)? I'd always speak to someone normally and if I realised they didn't understand, I'd THEN speak more slowly/clearly. To do otherwise is borderline racist, tbh, but that's a whole other thread.

    Back to the topic, I pick up accents ridiculously easily but make an effort not to. It's hilarious when people start speaking in a German accent to a German person, but I can see they why do it.


  • #33
    JIZZLORD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭JIZZLORD


    i hated learning french with an accent, i mentioned to the teacher one day that the french wouldnt come over here and speak in the bogger west sligo accent that some of the people in my year had.


  • #34
    Captain Ginger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Captain Ginger


    MIN2511 wrote: »
    Like ffs some foreigners speak English!!!

    I hate when people do that!

    I remember some day in BT, some old cVnt wanted directions and she said "don't ask that negro, she cant speak English":eek::eek::eek:

    I was ****ing demented! And the manager said to her "Oh she speaks good English!" No one knew where she was going except i!!!!!! I still directed her though, fecking cvnt!!!! I should have told her to kiss my fecking black ass!
    Damn, I'm trying but I just can't make out what you're saying. :(


  • #35
    Sqaull20
    Registered Users Posts: 2,044 ✭✭✭Sqaull20


    Listen to this idiot.

    If you cant speak the language throw in an accent and you are set!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8oN58cyp2c


  • #36
    Curlypinkie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 375 ✭✭Curlypinkie


    Hah, I'm the other way around! I can't help but speak with a Dublin accent although I'm... eh, Scandinavian.

    Accents are VERY contagious imho...


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  • #37
    MIN2511
    Registered Users Posts: 5,398 ✭✭✭MIN2511


    Sqaull20 wrote: »
    Listen to this idiot.

    If you cant speak the language throw in an accent and you are set!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8oN58cyp2c
    It's Steve McClaren... what do you expect?:rolleyes:


  • #38
    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Where is this "foreign" place?

    I find I get a very thick Neilstown accent when talking to somebody of a foreign persuasion.


  • #39
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Everyone knows raising your vooice and articulating your wrods is the way to speak to foreigners.Also say si and que at random intervals.


  • #40
    herbieflowers
    Registered Users Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭herbieflowers


    Sqaull20 wrote: »
    Listen to this idiot.

    If you cant speak the language throw in an accent and you are set!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8oN58cyp2c


    ha, I was hoping someone would post that!


  • #41
    ewj1978
    Registered Users Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭ewj1978


    SPEAK SLOWLY AND CLEARLY BUT LOUDLY ALL THROUGH! well thats what most people do..... i just snigger*


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  • #42
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    ewj1978 wrote: »
    SPEAK SLOWLY AND CLEARLY BUT LOUDLY ALL THROUGH! well thats what most people do..... i just snigger*

    Do the foreigners not get upset when you just stand there sniggerig at them instead of talking?


  • #43
    ewj1978
    Registered Users Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭ewj1978


    oops sry... I mean i snigger at people who do the TALKING LOUDLY YET SLOWLY thing... I speak as normal, Work with poles,czechs and russians after all..


  • #44
    IceICEbaby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭IceICEbaby


    haha
    i kind of do this....but again, its more with people from other regions of Ireland.

    Im from Greystones so i have quite a 'neutral' accent
    My Dad is from Clare though so when we visit and im talking to my relatives, i kind of "magically" pick up a slight culchie accent....

    My Dad has lived in Wicklow for about 25 years and his accent is almost 'phased out' at this stage...
    But when we visit the West, out comes the big Clare accent :rolleyes:




    Ah but are'nt we conformists at heart :D


  • #45
    rhapsody!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 529 ✭✭✭rhapsody!


    My mum has an english accent but once you get her round her friends she has an Irish twang... quite annoying actually. With her friends she says "Sure" alot.. GAHHHH!!!

    eg: "Ah well sure..."
    "Sure that's fine.."


  • #46
    Conbro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭Conbro


    "Whats the craic with the big macs?" and a Chinese guy replying "will ya relax, they're coming now", of course followed by the obligatry "no bother". Ahh I love Ireland an its influence on the world.

    lmfao :D


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