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D4 accent - does it bother you?

  • 07-04-2008 3:10pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭stevoman


    i have heard and had this conversation with a few people (not started by meself) and in general from what i can see, a lot of people cannot stand the D4 accent. In fairness some of the twang bothers me, like when you hear the young girls complaining about being left on their "tobler" or the worst one iv have ever heard is a girl in a strong D4 accent at the airport asking for "simons cellphone number" (its a mobile goddamit!:eek:).

    What does the general AH conencus think here, keeping in mind you can flake any other accent you wish out of it, if your from D4 of course!!!!!


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Its usually suffised with a transatlantic interrogative inflection now..so it sound like they're,you know,asking,like,a question?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    I despise it, it's just feckin awful.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Prefer it to the "deadly" Dublin accent


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭stevoman


    Degsy wrote: »
    Its usually suffised with a transatlantic interrogative inflection now..so it sound like they're,you know,asking,like,a question?

    LOL very good!


  • Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tote.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    Annoying people sound annoying with any accent.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    rb_ie wrote: »
    Prefer it to the "deadly" Dublin accent

    qf-mf-t


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,396 ✭✭✭✭kaimera


    rb_ie wrote: »
    Prefer it to the "deadly" Dublin accent
    This is very true.

    All the jokes aside, I dont really care about the D4 accent tbqh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    The new trend is for the Southside kids to all talk like they are from the mean streets of Finglas and hang around outside the shop from what i can see!

    Buses are even more fun, like the group of morons i had to ask to shut the fukk up on Saturday.

    I understand that Mammy and Daddy are unlikely to care but the guy on the bus who's asking you to stop screaming at each other has limited patience kids!:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭The Al Lad


    Hate D4 heads lingo


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭stevoman


    rb_ie wrote: »
    Prefer it to the "deadly" Dublin accent
    I'l take a scanger over it any day. The "deadly" accent is at least amusing!!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Depends. There are varying degrees. Plus, even though it may sound contrived, it's not actually put on. It's how people speak - they grew up with it, they can't help it. My mate's from a rich family and grew up in Ballsbridge, she has a posh accent - fair enough, goes with the territory. And she doesn't use all that "Tobler", "Heino" slang. She just speaks normally - and she doesn't exaggerate her accent. It's when people do the above that it becomes annoying.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭DaBreno


    Sure you cant help it if its what you grew up with it but the amount of people who in a short space of time modify their own accents to speak like this is brutal. I know a few fellow native Mayo people who went D4 in a matter of months. Turns my stomach.

    Tis more of a mindset than an accent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    could be worse.....like one of those culchie accents.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭stevoman


    RuggieBear wrote: »
    could be worse.....like one of those culchie accents.

    Oh come on, the culthcie accents are so hot right now:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭azezil


    I've been loike told by loike a Coork boi that I've loike a D4 ac-cent, I was loike, ooh moi gawd loike, no freaking waay!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    RuggieBear wrote: »
    could be worse.....like one of those culchie accents.

    Leave us culchies alone! All we want to do is provide you with spuds for your chippers! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 148 ✭✭Silent Partner


    It depends on the person talking really. If someone says "Roight" more than five times in a conversation or uses "Heino" and other assorted words, it does do my head in.

    Although a strong Louth accent... *shudder*

    A strong Kerry accent a la Jackie Healy Rae is most amusing. I haven't a clue what that chap says most of the time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Who is/was the poster with the ' leave britney alone ' avatar ? (removed )

    I just wanted to say ' leave britney alone ' ....loike


  • Posts: 8,647 [Deleted User]


    stevoman wrote: »
    i have heard and had this conversation with a few people (not started by meself) and in general from what i can see, a lot of people cannot stand the D4 accent. In fairness some of the twang bothers me, like when you hear the young girls complaining about being left on their "tobler" or the worst one iv have ever heard is a girl in a strong D4 accent at the airport asking for "simons cellphone number" (its a mobile goddamit!:eek:).

    What does the general AH conencus think here, keeping in mind you can flake any other accent you wish out of it, if your from D4 of course!!!!!

    Personally,I don't judge people on their accent,sneering on their accent is no different than the way dublin people sneer cuchies accents.

    Plus, it is only since the ROCK books that you have been hearing people complaining about the accent.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭Hellm0


    I dislike it purely because it's always so hammed up. Some people might speak with a D4 accent but it's almost always played up to the fullest extent allowed by the English language. Why play it up? Because, similar to so called "Proper" English it is seen as a symbol of status and therefore anyone speaking to me in a D4 accent is instantly a twat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭briantwin


    Yeah it can be really annoying especially when the only noise that is made in that accent may as well be a transcript of an episode of the O.C !! I do know some people with the D4 accent who are smart and good fun and in those cases its just another accent. I suppose its more about whats said rather than the accent that can wear on peoples nerves a bit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    I don't mind a mild d4 accent, but a really strong one.. example your one Bec's from Dan and Bec's... jesus.. makes me want to slap her.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Personally,I don't judge people on their accent,sneering on their accent is no different than the way dublin people sneer cuchies accents.
    Meh, I'd sneer at any moron who puts on an accent/uses lingo in a forced manner. But no, I wouldn't judge someone based on an accent they can't help having.
    Plus, it is only since the ROCK books that you have been hearing people complaining about the accent.
    It's since well before then. Remember those AA Roadwatch/Weather girls with all that "ryndabite", "sythe", "clydee" crap?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    Hellm0 wrote: »
    I dislike it purely because it's always so hammed up. Some people might speak with a D4 accent but it's almost always played up to the fullest extent allowed by the English language. Why play it up? Because, similar to so called "Proper" English it is seen as a symbol of status and therefore anyone speaking to me in a D4 accent is instantly a twat.

    This man speaks the truth.


  • Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭James Bong 79


    its alot worse when the person with the d4 accent, isnt actually from d4.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭gidget


    Can't stand it!!!

    All those "Oh my Gawd's" and "Loike's" would send anyone barmy. have found myself having to take a deep breath on more than one occasion whenever i hear someone with it.

    I mean okay the odd person could say those words maybe once or twice in a sentence, but when they use them in every second word of a conversation, you just want to scream at them to shut the f*** up!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭Al_Fernz


    No problem with the D4 accent. However, when people put it on or over-emphasize it or any other accent, it gets very very annoying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    no problem with it, but the stupid phrases and abbreviations they make up though like heino etc slightly piss me off.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭stevoman



    Plus, it is only since the ROCK books that you have been hearing people complaining about the accent.

    Thats is so untrue. I only found out who Ross O'carroll Kelly was about a week ago.

    Please dont tell me he is reffered to as ROCK ~shudder~


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    That's part of the joke as in Blackrock College.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,909 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Horrible snobby accent tbh.

    Oh and poll FTW.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 845 ✭✭✭nhughes100


    It's not the accent as much as the pretentious nature of the people who use it. I was in Citywest the night of the UCD ball(not attending), the morning after we were settling in to watch the Ireland V Wales rugby game. My head was totally wrecked with "Oh My God I was like soooooo drunk last night" "oh my God I've such a hangover" etc etc etc, there was no way I could watch a rugby match in piece with them so we legged it to a safer more normal venue. D4 users tend to be very loud & repetitive too.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Am I the only ones that absolutely hated those ROCK books? So unbelievably unfunny.

    The D4 accent is diabolical. It's not even, loike, a natural one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭Al_Fernz


    Nope you're not the only one. Toss O'Carroll Kelly is a load of sh1te. The lowest form of comedy is based on stereotyping peoples/regions accents.

    See: Bishop, Des


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,711 ✭✭✭Hrududu


    D4 accents don't bother me too much. But when they have that fake American accent added to it it drives me up the wall. Try to go to Dundrum shopping centre on a weekend and then try not to go insane. Its a very difficult thing to do.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭Jigsaw


    I live in Belfast so am not actually quite sure what the D4 accent is although I have a fair idea what it is. Perhaps someone would be kind enough to post up something from Youtube to enlighten me?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭DetectivFoxtrot


    DaBreno wrote: »
    Sure you cant help it if its what you grew up with it but the amount of people who in a short space of time modify their own accents to speak like this is brutal. I know a few fellow native Mayo people who went D4 in a matter of months. Turns my stomach.


    .

    Fellow natives or not, you need to give these people a good kicking :D

    Ah, contrived D4 accents and Ugg Boots - two of my most hated things!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,176 ✭✭✭✭Sangre


    how can you possibly tell if a stranger is putting on an accent?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,848 ✭✭✭Andy-Pandy


    I lived in Ballsbridge from the age of 7 until 24 and nobody has ever said they didnt like my accent. I have a lovely speaking voice, my mother told me so.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,176 ✭✭✭✭Sangre


    Andy-Pandy wrote: »
    I lived in Ballsbridge from the age of 7 until 24 and nobody has ever said they didnt like my accent. I have a lovely speaking voice, my mother told me so.
    shame about your face.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    I hate it. You hear some idiots from time to time in Co. Waterford speaking with it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭DetectivFoxtrot


    Sangre wrote: »
    how can you possibly tell if a stranger is putting on an accent?


    you just can. There's a really nice d4 accent and then theres the roooooooiiiiiiiiiiggggggggggghhhhhhhtttt accent, seriously it's unmissable.

    I grew up in Tallaght but have a normal accent however I remember people who faked the knacker accent to sound as much of a knacker as possible:confused::confused: - that's much worse than the D4 thing imo!

    hav yeh goh a smowke bud, I'n gummin for wan!:p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ioctl


    The D4 accent doesn't bother me because I have real-world-important things to think about.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,176 ✭✭✭✭Sangre


    I grew up in Tallaght but have a normal accent

    funny, i'm sure they'd say the exact same thing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    What buses stop on Nassau Street? There was a bunch of teenage girls at a bus stop there one day and I was on the verge of begging them to stop torturing me. Their accents brought tears to my eyes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 777 ✭✭✭dRNk SAnTA


    D4 accents are fine. Its when people say stuff like tobler and morto its because they are fake and trying to ham it up. They're probably from the noggin and are pretending to be posh :p

    If the people with the accents are prats thats one thing, but the accent sounds nice and is clear. How can you hate it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,657 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    What the hell is tobler? Have D4 heads actually abbreviated a chocolate bar?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Kinda rhyming slang - "I was on my toblerone" meaning "I was on my own". And then it got shortened: "I was on my tobler"...

    I know. It's monstrous.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    D4 accent? meh, doesn't bother me

    What annoys me more is people assume D4 is all the same. OP, been in Ringsend or Irishtown recently? I'm not saying they are kips but not exactly desirable.

    So do they fit into your description too? They probably form close to half of D4


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