The snobbery question

SlinkyToo

If you hear a country or north dub accent do you Thank God you are not one of those awful people?

Oswald Osbourne

no

GLaDOS

I'm from north Dublin, when I here a south Dublin accent I think thank God I'm not one of the awful people

Jay D

SlinkyToo wrote: »

If you hear a country or north dub accent do you Thank God you are not one of those awful people?

what I hate is people from the country who try put on a posh Dublin accent, throw in some posh slang about places etc.....

UCD is fairly full of them - I'm reliably told.

Bob in Belfast

Why do you think these people are awful?
Someones accent should not really make a difference to how you treat them.

Oswald Osbourne

Jay D wrote: »

what I hate is people from the country who try put on a posh Dublin accent, throw in some posh slang about places etc.....

UCD is fairly full of them - I'm reliably told.

UCD is a school that teaches culchies to talk like South Dubliners. Beyond that I'm not sure what else it does.

challengemaster

pff, all dubs are scumbags! (joke! )

yeah, seriously, i never got the whole accent / location snobbery thing

Davei141

Delete this stupid thread

SlinkyToo

the word 'awful' is rhetorical and not a statement.

Jay D

Bob in Belfast wrote: »

Why do you think these people are awful?
Someones accent should not really make a difference to how you treat them.

accent is always a good source to tell what kind of person a person is - scientific fact.

RuggieBear

peons

SlinkyToo

I find it entertaining that when someone doesn't like a thread they throw their joys out of the pram.

copacetic

ScienceNerd wrote: »

I'm from north Dublin, when I here a south Dublin accent I think thank God I'm not one of the awful people

doesn't that make you as bad as any other ignorant idiot who judges people by what they sound like or where they are from?

Bob in Belfast

Jay D wrote: »

accent is always a good source to tell what kind of person a person is - scientific fact.

Are you sure about that?
Who did these scientific tests?

Maybe your joking if so that's alright.

Jay D

Bob in Belfast wrote: »

Are you sure about that?
Who did these scientific tests?

Maybe your joking if so that's alright.

People who's name is Bob automatically register with many as being a certain type too,

SlinkyToo

Thats cool we can expand it to types of people as well.

Bob in Belfast

Jay D wrote: »

People who's name is Bob automatically register with many as being a certain type too,

So people named Jay are what type of person?
No need to answer i already know.;)

Davidius

Of course not. I'm not that kind of person. Instead, I think "I better not say anything lest they hear my accent and become overcome with jealousy which might lead they to kill themselves!".

That said I don't know what my accent sounds like but I'm sure it lacks consistency.

KTRIC

I work in a big international company in Munich and another Irish guy started recently in another department. I met him the day he started to introduce myself, me being one of the few Irish in that office I thought it would be nice to say hello. The first thing I noticed is that he puts on heirs and graces's and trys to sound posh or even American. He's from south county Dublin , and you'd think by the way he talks hes a yank.
I noticed after a few minutes talking to him he looses his fake accent, but still use's it with the locals.

Why do people seem to think they need to do this ??

Kernel

SlinkyToo wrote: »

I find it entertaining that when someone doesn't like a thread they throw their joys out of the pram.

Little amuses the simple.

Jay D

Bob in Belfast wrote: »

So people named Jay are what type of person?
No need to answer i already know.;)

ah a poet eh?? You're good

SlinkyToo

Says the smiling winker.

Kernal of sense perhap?

johnnyskeleton

What's wrong with the Castleknock, Clontarf, Howth and Malahide accents?

I think it's strange that people assume that if you're from Dublin you must either have a D4 accent or, for want of a better word, a howerya accent. I see both of these accents are being overly exaggerated. The old Dublin accent, which is a melodic, espressive accent, seems to be dissappearing.

Jay D

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

What's wrong with the Castleknock, Clontarf, Howth and Malahide accents?

I think it's strange that people assume that if you're from Dublin you must either have a D4 accent or, for want of a better word, a howerya accent. I see both of these accents are being overly exaggerated. The old Dublin accent, which is a melodic, espressive accent, seems to be dissappearing.

what made you select those places to question?

johnnyskeleton

Jay D wrote: »

what made you select those places to question?

Since this thread is about snobbery, I thought I might highlight the posher parts of the north side.

Jay D

right

well my honest opinion is that the concept of people who actually give a **** about accents is ridiculous.

Ok, no one likes a junkie yakking on taking an hour to say something etc.

As for the idea that the old Dublin accent is going out, I certainly disagree. I know a lot of others won't, the sort that commute to work and back, go to their local area for everything..... No wonder they haven't a clue.

Creamy Goodness

meh i'd rather listen to a fake posh south side accent than listen to a north side one and get robbed in the meantime.

ixoy

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

Since this thread is about snobbery, I thought I might highlight the posher parts of the north side.

I grew up in Portmarnock/Sutton and never saw those sides as posh and never noticed people adopting accents out here. It's a fairly neutral accent for what it's worth.
For every one faking their accent, there's another twenty or thirty changing nothing at all.

Jay D

Cremo wrote: »

meh i'd rather listen to a fake posh south side accent than listen to a north side one and get robbed in the meantime.

:rolleyes:

dilusional

johnnyskeleton

Jay D wrote: »

As for the idea that the old Dublin accent is going out, I certainly disagree. I know a lot of others won't, the sort that commute to work and back, go to their local area for everything..... No wonder they haven't a clue.

What I mean is that it seems to be squeezed on both sides; into what people call the dublin 4 accent on one side, and into the exaggerated Dublin accent on the other. More importantly, it seems to me that people who are not from dublin tend to assume that these are the only dublin accents.

keen

ScienceNerd wrote: »

I'm from north Dublin, when I here a south Dublin accent I think thank God I'm not one of the awful people

haha same here.

Shan75

There are a lot of kids/teenagers who are putting on dodgy accents nowadays.I guess this is some kind of a badge of honour in that on the streets you get more respect if there is a hint of dodginess about you.I really cannot understand this mentality at all.I certainly am glad I am not one of those awful people.

leninbenjamin

I hear the Dublin accent and think thank god I'm not one of those people.

phasers

I certainly do, and I laugh about it with Tarquin and Charles at the country club while out butlers serve us expensive drinks

ciaran76

phasers wrote: »

I certainly do, and I laugh about it with Tarquin and Charles at the country club while out butlers serve us expensive drinks

Duch Gold isn't expensive !!!!

phasers

ciaran76 wrote: »

Duch Gold isn't expensive !!!!

I've been mislead

I will be video phoning the barristers poste haste

a good friend of mine is a judge, you know

Oswald Osbourne

phasers wrote: »

a good friend of mine is a judge, you know

Judge Reinhold?

phasers

Oswald Osbourne wrote: »

Judge Reinhold?

Judge Dredd actually

Pherekydes

SlinkyToo wrote: »

Kernal of sense perhap?

Your slip is showing.

Mossy Monk

SlinkyToo wrote: »

If you hear a country or north dub accent do you Thank God you are not one of those awful people?

Reading this makes me wonder how much of an arsehole some people can be.

arybvtcw0eolkf

I would so, like, kill myself if I sounded like one of those Finglas or Ballymun breadliners .. OMG :eek: how awful would that be!.

Colonel Sanders

KTRIC wrote: »

I work in a big international company in Munich and another Irish guy started recently in another department. I met him the day he started to introduce myself, me being one of the few Irish in that office I thought it would be nice to say hello. The first thing I noticed is that he puts on heirs and graces's and trys to sound posh or even American. He's from south county Dublin , and you'd think by the way he talks hes a yank.
I noticed after a few minutes talking to him he looses his fake accent, but still use's it with the locals.

Why do people seem to think they need to do this ??

I never get this kinda crap either. I used to live with a girl from waterfoed and you always knew if she was on the phone to someone from home (natural waterford accent) or one of her friends living in dublin (put on posh D4 type accent). Another girl came to view the house one night when we were advertising for a new house mate. Said she was from cork. One of the others commented that she didn't have a cork accent, she replied ''No, I've lost that thank god". You'd always get one person in college who went to America on a J1 visa for 3 months and has talked with an american accent subsequently

The way I look at it you are from where you're from and I really don't get this whole ''wannabe'' mentality where people try to be what they're not. Whether its trying to fit in with people or what I dn't know.

Nevyn

Mairt wrote: »

I would so, like, kill myself if I sounded like one of those Finglas or Ballymun breadliners .. OMG :eek: how awful would that be!.

Oh yes cos there are no skangers with gods awful accents on the southside :rolleyes:

SlinkyToo

I think we all just agree that no matter the accent we are all intolerant and judgmental.

connundrum

SlinkyToo wrote: »

I think we all just agree that no matter the accent we are all intolerant and judgmental.

Excellent summary. Regardless of what upbringing each of us has experienced, once we hear certain accents we instantly become intolerant and judgemental.

We can now close this thread as the OP has drawn a final and logical conclusion.

Pherekydes

SlinkyToo wrote: »

I think we all just agree that no matter the accent we are all intolerant and judgmental.

Disagree completely. Stupid, sweeping statements. :rolleyes:

Firetrap

I don't mind if someone has a north Dublin accent or a Cavan accent or whatever. It's just the accent of where they come from and I'd never judge them on that.

What does get my goat though is people who put on affected accents like American or English or D4. I remember classmates of mine who went to college with country accents and came back at Christmas talking with a snooty accent. Of course, it always slips and they mispronounce something the bogger way. Hee hee.

SlinkyToo

seems to be a majority of non D4s with accent envy

biko

SlinkyToo wrote: »

If you hear a country or north dub accent do you Thank God you are not one of those awful people?

So the only good accent is a South Dublin one? In... my... hole...

SlinkyToo

case in point

Shellie13

im from "the country" and if im told i have a dub accent (which happens ALOT) i blush!
i hate them!!!

love the western accents n Northern (now thats sexy!!!)