D4 accent - does it bother you?

Sinfonia

electric69 wrote: »

Im Irish but ive been living over in America for quite a while now and hangout with a lot of americans.does this mean when i got home im going to be classified as a D4? Before i moved out here i had a well spoken accent.From the midlands but never had a thick accent at all. Does my possible natural american twang move me into another accent bracket?

Maybe if you talk like this?
You know, where everything has a question mark at the end of it?
With an upward inflection?
At the end of every sentence?

Sherifu

Support the D4um.....NOT.

FlutterinBantam

How does one know the "normal "Dublin accent?

very simple,check the vowels first

If the rest of the country pronounces them as long vowels eg Fás= FFawss, the Dub will call it Foss and so on, Can't usually pronounced caaaant,the Dub will pronounce cahnt.

Listen for it!!!

Any consonant which takes a bit of effort with the tongue and lips will be discarded eg After= atter... Corporation= copporation.

"t" of course is ignored so basically the true blue just opens his or her mouth,keeps the tongue totally still and speaks with the throat= troah,which is why they ,well , usually sound like some gutteral tribe from the Amazon delta when moving in packs

Jemmie ja se dah wun in de bleedin stowarheause las noihh?
jays staaaurage Boood ,seen her aroih,bleeeeedin crackeh whoh
Tihs on er looike bleedin mellins whah

anonymous_joe

Sinfonia wrote: »

Maybe if you talk like this?
You know, where everything has a question mark at the end of it?
With an upward inflection?
At the end of every sentence?

Oddly enough that inflections Australian. Thank Neighbours and Home and Away for that one.

Piste

My mum slags the way I talk (I go to school in D4 and a lot of my friends are from there)





But then again she's from Cork :pac:

Steve_o

Yea the upward inflection thing is very annoying, I HATE the D4 accent with every part of my being...Its so pretentious and the amount of obnoctious d***heads I've seen with that accent is criminal... Ok I know i'm gonna get the whole "Yea, well your, loike, a culchie so go, loike, grow something and leave us alone loike", but i don't care my accent is natural so I win...

Blisterman

I don't get the "Roysh" thing. I went to school in D4, and I have never in my life heard anyone pronounce "Right", like "Roysh".

Can anyone link to a youtube video or recording of this?

The Hill Billy

D4 accents are grand for D4 people. It does annoy me when you hear young wans from north of the Liffey to Drogheda speaking, loike, that, well, roysh, yah.

Twats!

(Or should that be, loike, "Tw'otts!"?)

Ross_Mahon

If we exterminate scangers and D4 heads, Whats left?

Steve_o

Ross_Mahon wrote: »

If we exterminate scangers and D4 heads, Whats left?

Bog Standard prototype dubs from the 60's...

horseydevine

im a northsider through and through but the missus is from d4, she talks normal by the way, but her brother and all his mates try talk townie.. annoying as F**k to be quite honest specially when daddy gives them 50 yoyo's to go to the shops...:mad:.. but now whenever im around they talk d4... im confused !!!!!!!

Steve_o

horseydevine wrote: »

im a northsider through and through but the missus is from d4, she talks normal by the way, but her brother and all his mates try talk townie.. annoying as F**k to be quite honest specially when daddy gives them 50 yoyo's to go to the shops...:mad:.. but now whenever im around they talk d4... im confused !!!!!!!

They sound more confused tbh...

Hardrain

The C4 accent is just as bad. I really don't know where it comes from! Im all for people not talking like skangers and chavs but it's so put on. Awful.

mikemac

Steve_o wrote: »

Yea the upward inflection thing is very annoying, I HATE the D4 accent with every part of my being.

Me too, the accent from Ringsend and Irishtown is far too common. D4 right?

Steve_o

micmclo wrote: »

Me too, the accent from Ringsend and Irishtown is far too common. D4 right?

The 'D4' accent is not limited to Dublin 4 in my experience, Clonskeagh is Dublin 6 isn't it?? and i've heard some of the most annoying 'D4' accents there... I know people from outside dublin who do it as well and its still called a 'D4' accent...

boneless

Jigsaw wrote: »

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?

Think Malone Road/Knockbreda types who voted for the old Alliance Party as a way to avoid being political. The ones who sent the kids to boarding schools in "the mainland"....

ntlbell

Designer handbags and 4x4's

LegacyUser

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!!!!!

In answer to your question, no.

RATM

Recently heard conversation in a pub

D4'er- ( at the bar ) Can I have a bottle of Heino?
Barman - We don't have Heino
D4'er- Oh my gaaaawwwwd, you dont have Heineken?
Barman- Oh we have that, we just don't have Heino!

Steve_o

RATM wrote: »

Recently heard conversation in a pub

D4'er- ( at the bar ) Can I have a bottle of Heino?
Barman - We don't have Heino
D4'er- Oh my gaaaawwwwd, you dont have Heineken?
Barman- Oh we have that, we just don't have Heino!

lol, I heard a D4'er ordering a pint of 'Bergo one night as well....

mikemac

Steve_o wrote: »

The 'D4' accent is not limited to Dublin 4 in my experience, Clonskeagh is Dublin 6 isn't it?? and i've heard some of the most annoying 'D4' accents there... I know people from outside dublin who do it as well and its still called a 'D4' accent...

I was trying to indirectly point out that D4 isn’t some paradise. They are dog rough areas around those parts yet “D4” has come to mean something else which makes me wonder how did it get called a D4 accent in the first place.
I'm simply more familar with Irishtown and Ringsend in that area than the other parts.

Steve_o

micmclo wrote: »

I was trying to indirectly point out that D4 isn’t some paradise. They are dog rough areas around those parts yet “D4” has come to mean something else which makes me wonder how did it get called a D4 accent in the first place.
I'm simply more familar with Irishtown and Ringsend in that area than the other parts.

Oh right sorry, I mis-understood the post I thought you were trying to say that not all parts of Dublin 4 have the accent.... which is true, they don't

Cool_CM

Mr.S wrote: »

Is that the Cork version of D4? or something?

Yup, it's for people who wish they were from D4, but unfortunately fate determined that they were born in Ballincollig and Cork has no post codes. Doesn't mean that they can't pretend though.

DiscoHugh

micmclo wrote: »

I was trying to indirectly point out that D4 isn’t some paradise. They are dog rough areas around those parts yet “D4” has come to mean something else which makes me wonder how did it get called a D4 accent in the first place.
I'm simply more familar with Irishtown and Ringsend in that area than the other parts.

D.4...not just a place but a state of mind.

Obviously being d.4 born and bred I don't think I have a strong accent or at least I didn't until country work colleagues pointed it out and every Irish person I met travelling did likewise. Im pretty sure I don't put it on.Whatever, I think too strong an accent from any part of the world is probably considered undesireable.

Just had to throw in this beauty though, a few years back my bro was drinking in Kileys after a senior cup game and he over heard a guy at the bar order:

"a pint of Probs there, chief"

Probs=Carlsberg, as in probably the best beer in the world.

PrivateEye

The accent can be a little bit annoying alright. I like people as they are most of the time, so I don't see why people feel a need to put on an accent like that. The black-clad young folk (says me, old man river at 18 :rolleyes: ) around Temple Bar tend to talk like little Americans, there's other examples too. I really don't understand it.

I haven't really got an accent myself. A fair few of my mates have Dublin accents, but they're not 'put on'. I use a lot of Dublin terms, but being a Roscommon-Dublin mixmash and spending my time between the two growing up I escaped pretty lucky with accents. I don't see anything wrong with Dublin accents- do people in London feel bad about how they talk? There's no such thing as a 'knacker accent' or whatever else, and I hate people who hold that attitude. The way we talk reflects where we grew up really, no shame in it.

I remember Damien Dempsey saying he took some slagging for singing in his OWN ACCENT. Imagine.

I don't get the D4 accent, and I hate classism and the believe one side of the city is bathing in bottled water while the other side throws bricks at police officers. How you speak is a small part of you!

Niamho!

stick me in a room with someone who's common as muck and i'd last....

stick me in with a D4 and i'd crack up... BUT in saying that.... theres bad and theres awful. I kno a girl who's from somewhere on the N/side and i swear when i met her years ago she spoke in a neutral accent and you shoulde hear the way she speaks now. i dunno if its just the fact that i know she's being false. its just far too forced!!

Piste

I dunno if I'd call it "put on", I don't know anyone who speaks like that who TRIES to speak like that.

Doop

anonymousman wrote: »

Whats a Templeogue accent? My cousins live there its not d4 :S. Full of old people.

Yes, all the young people have moved to D2, there was a grand exidous about 2 years, ago all the local schools closed down, creches etc etc...
seriously.... WTF?

chopperbyrne

Doop wrote: »

Yes, all the young people have moved to D2, there was a grand exidous about 2 years, ago all the local schools closed down, creches etc etc...
seriously.... WTF?

A "D4" accent is very much like a Templeogue accent.

Cuddlesworth

chopperbyrne wrote: »

A "D4" accent is very much like a Templeogue accent.

No, no its not. A Templeouge accent is a very bland slightly posh well spoken way of speaking the English language. And when I was there, every sentence was not posed as a question. From what I have seen recently its still the same.