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Are you prejudiced toward accents?

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  • #102
    Schwiiing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,704 ✭✭✭Schwiiing


    The Welsh accent on a woman gets me fierce excited.


  • #103
    Father Ted Crilly
    Site Banned Posts: 217 ✭✭Father Ted Crilly


    For some reason I talk like a Dublin person. I don't have a Dublin accent but I pronounce things like a Dublin person. You know the D's instead of the TH's and so on.


  • #104
    Cold War Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Cold War Kid


    Snickers Man wrote: »
    No such thing as a "D4 accent". Only silly people who think that the middle class Dublin accent is located primarily in Dublin 4.

    Which is nonsense!!!!

    Some of the worst purveyors of that "Dane Tane on the Dort" accent are northsiders.

    Fact.
    In my opinion the middle-class Dublin accent is just a mild Dublin accent without any contrived aspects, pronouncing Booterstown as Booterstown rather than Beeters-tyne.


  • #105
    JillyQ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭JillyQ


    I hate both the limerick & inner city Dublin accent.


  • #106
    Father Ted Crilly
    Site Banned Posts: 217 ✭✭Father Ted Crilly


    I think you'll find that this video is a very relevant one.


  • #107
    moc moc a moc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭moc moc a moc


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    I also have that ridiculously neutral in-between Dublin accent that foreigners can't even identify as being Irish.

    Had the Aussies fierce confused.

    A lad I met in Japan thought I was Canadian until I told him he was only a bollix.
    Father Ted Crilly wrote: »
    For some reason I talk like a Dublin person. I don't have a Dublin accent but I pronounce things like a Dublin person. You know the D's instead of the TH's and so on.

    There aren't any boggers who say D instead of TH??


  • #108
    grumpynerd
    Registered Users Posts: 153 ✭✭grumpynerd


    Positively prejudiced to the sharon horgan accent. That slighlty hoarse middle class burble is pure sex.


  • #109
    colosus1908
    Registered Users Posts: 58 ✭✭colosus1908


    Accents makes me hate the holidays and family gathering. It only leaves me with a swollen lower lip from bitting down so hard, in other to avoid laughting.


  • #110
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Pedro K wrote: »
    The D4 accent.

    I found out I had this one year when I went to Irish college when I was 10 or so. Got my first experience of bullying as I was a "posho". Apparently I wasn't really Irish simply because of my accent. I always held a shame through my teenage years as result but I eventually stopped giving a ****.

    I still meet tons of people who have an aversion to it. It's been sometimes suggested that my accent "isn't genuine" compared other Irish accents. That has to annoy me the most as i dont know how one can quantify how genuine an accent is. Sometimes when I've had a few and someone tries to have a go at me over it; I will then overdo it (my daddy can buy and sell you etc.) because frankly **** you if your reducing me to that. There's also the assumption that I'm super rich and have everything handed to me on top of all that.

    But no, I try not to pigeon hole people by their accent as it's been happening to me my whole life.


  • #111
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    moc moc a moc wrote: »
    A lad I met in Japan thought I was Canadian until I told him he was only a bollix.

    Canadian is exactly what the Aussies kept guessing!


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  • #112
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,033 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    American actress, marrying a bloke from up North, tries to get her family to talk in a Belfast accent. Hilarity ensues:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICw-e7plUMI

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    They bring it to you—free.

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  • #113
    fryup
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    :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyu7cYMb2Fs


  • #114
    TheBeardedLady
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    I don't think I do judge people by their accents, even people from Louth. I wouldn't be able to place half of them in Ireland tbh. The D4 accent everyone is talking about is indeed irritating but I'm not sure I'd make a judgement on a person who speaks with it. I definitely judge people in other ways but accents? I don't think so. Not consciously anyway.


  • #115
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I think accents are fascinating - they are a marker of the different blends of accents which you were exposed to growing up, so your accent could have a twinge of your grandparents' who you might never have heard speak. Which is why it is a shame when people cover up markers of their origins by adopting a different accent. I can understand why they might do so but still it's kind of like saying your ancestors accents weren't good enough for you.


  • #116
    HamsterFace
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    I despise the bogger accent. Knocks at least 20 points off someone's IQ


  • #117
    Bazzo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,047 ✭✭✭Bazzo


    HamsterFace wrote: »
    I despise the bogger accent. Knocks at least 20 points off someone's IQ

    What's "the bogger accent" ? Any of the dozens from outside the pale?


  • #118
    the evasion_kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Bazzo wrote: »
    What's "the bogger accent" ? Any of the dozens from outside the pale?

    Map enclosed:


  • #119
    Fat Christy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Fat Christy


    The only accent I can't stand is the D4 accent, the weird american twangy one. Ugh. Can't bear it.


  • #120
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    I find the majority of Munster accents to be annoying.

    I was on the interview team for a recent recruitment drive for finance professionals with English as their first language. One of the candidates was a chap from Cork/Limerick. He had overcome going to UCC and had a good masters and work experience in the City of London. A strong candidate. But the accent! It made me wince each time he raised his voice to make a point.

    As I would be working with the chap on a daily basis I recommended that we give it to an English chap with a far less offensive accent.

    That's hilarious stuff from a connaught bogger.

    As a Dub I can handle middle class Munster outside the South West easily enough. I know a Tipp woman who seems to come from South Dublin.


    EDIT:

    pity this guy didn't have a bias towards meat and spuds accent of rural galway, not a great believer in paying it forward, or back are you?


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  • #121
    wp_rathead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,071 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    I find the majority of Munster accents to be annoying.

    I was on the interview team for a recent recruitment drive for finance professionals with English as their first language. One of the candidates was a chap from Cork/Limerick. He had overcome going to UCC and had a good masters and work experience in the City of London. A strong candidate. But the accent! It made me wince each time he raised his voice to make a point.

    As I would be working with the chap on a daily basis I recommended that we give it to an English chap with a far less offensive accent.
    That erm, sounds pretty unprofessional


  • #122
    fleet_admiral
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    after reading this thread its amazing how so many fools still think the dublin accent is exclusive to the northside. On the southside you have - Irishtown, Ringsend, Crumlin, Drimnagh, Sallynoggin, Ballybrack, Kilcross, Holylands, Whitechurch, Tallaght, Clondalkin, Palmerstown, Inchicore, Rialto, Dolphins Barn, Shankill, Ballyfermot, Bluebell, the south inner city, the list goes on. In all these areas you will find the 'northside' accent.


  • #123
    HughWotMVIII
    Registered Users Posts: 1,673 ✭✭✭HughWotMVIII


    Deleted User wrote: »
    When I hear a Donegal accent, I just want to snog the person speaking, don't know why.

    Agreed. Donegal accents make my knees weak. Among other things :).


  • #124
    Katgurl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,144 ✭✭✭Katgurl


    fleet_admiral wrote: »
    after reading this thread its amazing how so many fools still think the dublin accent is exclusive to the northside. On the southside you have - Irishtown, Ringsend, Crumlin, Drimnagh, Sallynoggin, Ballybrack, Kilcross, Holylands, Whitechurch, Tallaght, Clondalkin, Palmerstown, Inchicore, Rialto, Dolphins Barn, Shankill, Ballyfermot, Bluebell, the south inner city, the list goes on. In all these areas you will find the 'northside' accent.


    Yes and both the bolded spots are in Dublin 4.

    Regarding the alleged 'D4' accent, I grew up in a very nice part of Dublin 4. I have no recollection of that marbles-in-the-mouth sound that now erupts from the mouths of every so-called D4-head. It's a complete fabrication. Most people originally from Sandymount or Ballsbridge have fairly neutral accents. I live outside Dublin now and the fact I'm from Dublin at all usually evokes surprise.


  • #125
    juneg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭juneg


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jv3EvkqJlQ


  • #126
    ivytwine
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    snowstorm445 wrote: »
    Having lived in Dublin for a few months I have discovered that there is indeed more to the accent divide than the conventional Northside (howiyah) and D4/Southside (loike totes, roysh?). There is a very pleasant "neutral" Dublin accent, and its actually really nice to listen to, it just seems so genuine and natural. Far less grating than the Northside accent and not at all as insufferable as the D4 accent. :)

    Yes I love, love, love that accent. So pleasant to listen to.

    OP I think it's really sad that you were ashamed of how your dad talked. It's terrible to judge people on the way they talk.

    Someone further back said they basically hired someone with an English accent over a Cork one and that's just horrendous. There are accents I don't like, there are accents I find hard to understand, but for me it's the voice itself rather than the accent. Some people have terrible delivery or are really high pitched and that, to me, is worse than having an accent from X county.

    Also I'm from Cork but told I sound neutral-ish Limerick. Mother's English and I apparently had an English accent once.


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  • #127
    Snickers Man
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    Bazzo wrote: »
    What's "the bogger accent" ? Any of the dozens from outside the pale?

    And they're all, like, teautally shoite.


  • #128
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    I find the majority of Munster accents to be annoying.

    I was on the interview team for a recent recruitment drive for finance professionals with English as their first language. One of the candidates was a chap from Cork/Limerick. He had overcome going to UCC and had a good masters and work experience in the City of London. A strong candidate. But the accent! It made me wince each time he raised his voice to make a point.

    As I would be working with the chap on a daily basis I recommended that we give it to an English chap with a far less offensive accent.

    Would you agree with me if I suggested that bad accents and hurling counties go hand in hand? Your old stomping ground in east Galway I'm including in that.Check out the accents on the folk from the area where the borders of Waterford, Tipp and Kilkenny converge.Without doubt the biggest hurling hotspot in Ireland,indeed,the planet.I've had the pleasure of meeting plenty of them,lovely people without exception but Jesus Christ the accents...They sound like f@kin cartoon characters.
    Think of a hurling county,think of the accent.You'll see a pattern develop pretty quick.


  • #129
    Greentopia
    Registered Users Posts: 3,221 ✭✭✭Greentopia


    The 'dort' accent. Give me strength...If you have a genuine middle class Dublin accent no problem, friends of mine have it, but that afectatious D4 accent sets my teeth on edge. Former model Lisa Murphy is a prime offender.

    No problem with the working class Dublin accent. I rather like it. If the person who speaks with it is kind and a decent individual that's all that matters.

    Not a fan of a strong Limerick accent, the Arklow accent (I lived there years and still struggle to understand a thick Arklow accent) or the Northern Ireland accent.
    They all jar on my ear. :o

    My own is some odd mongrel mix of neutral Waterford, Dublin and some Swedish intonations and cadence having lived there many years.


  • #130
    Samaris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    I'm not mad on most strong regional Irish accents. Especially if I can't understand them! But the worst offender for sheer subjective grating of my ears has to be Wexford town accent, which sounds like a mosquito being beaten to death. Not mad on "naaaartsoide Cark" either. Not least since I regularly get inflicted with it at a high volume under the apartment windows.

    Edit: Two "Kirri!"(Kerry)-accented people speaking together is quite entertaining. It's like they try to outdo each other in pitch until they can only be heard by dogs.

    Mind you, although I don't have a Waterford accent myself, despite being brought up there, what I do have is the South-eastern speed of talking. I lived in England a bit, and despite my best efforts to slow down to a normal pace, people had trouble understanding what the hell I was saying half the time.


  • #131
    Greentopia
    Registered Users Posts: 3,221 ✭✭✭Greentopia


    Samaris wrote: »
    But the worst offender for sheer subjective grating of my ears has to be Wexford town accent, which sounds like a mosquito being beaten to death.

    :D Yeah it's not a thing of beauty is it?
    Samaris wrote: »
    Mind you, although I don't have a Waterford accent myself, despite being brought up there, what I do have is the South-eastern speed of talking. I lived in England a bit, and despite my best efforts to slow down to a normal pace, people had trouble understanding what the hell I was saying half the time.

    Brought up in Tramore but not much distinctive Waterford accent either. I've recently moved back to Waterford to do a course down here this year (then back up to Wicklow or Dublin thank god) and forgot how strong it can be. Haven't lived here over 20 years though.

    Yeah people do tend to roll their words into each other quickly down here don't they? not a fast talker myself though.


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