The Dublin Accent

Voltex

Is it cute or an assault on the ear?

robbie_998

an assault on the ear

AARRRGH

Voltex wrote: »

Is it cute or an assault on the ear?

Which part of Dublin?

Dublin accents range from having no accent at all to sounding like you grew up in the circus.

Rented Mule

It's Hiroshima and Nagasaki on a sunny August 1945 Sunday afternoon.

PirateShampoo

But at least its understandable, unlike 80% of this country's accents.

orourkeda

Rented Mule wrote: »

It's Hiroshima and Nagasaki on a sunny August 1945 Sunday afternoon.

That was an ATTACK not an ACCENT

Joey the lips

Speaking as a common northsider dub. I have to say its the best accent in the world. afterall the northsiders are the blacks of dublin and dublin of course is the blacks of ireland!

Mac daddy

it depends really if it's this type of one

"waaaaats tha storeeeeeeeee" or "Give us your mobile or I'll ****in knife ya ya ****in mupa!"

No thanks

Red Hand

Fair City

Wife-beating

Heroin use

Gargle

Aslan

"Could you spare us some change for a hostel?"

IRELAND and NO FEAR tattoos

:pac:

docdolittle

robbie_998 wrote: »

an assault on the ear

I'd say that too if I was from Clondal.... oh wait I am.... :rolleyes:

brummytom

Love a big t'ick Dub accent.

I remember mom asking the taxi driver if there were any shops near;
"Sure d'eres abewt a hundert dewn dere"

Or my moms cousin during the summer
"TOM! D'ya tink way've got Dubberlin accents?!"

Lovely

bigdogbarking

bleeding ****e

dlofnep

It's a pretty vomit-inducing accent. A big turn off in a girl too if they have a really strong one. You're just like "Yeah, you're cute - but stop talking."

Midnight_EG

Chung fleh, wujji fuhk offff!















sexy;)

TPD

Aural sodomy.

Prof.Badass

Joey the lips wrote: »

Speaking as a common northsider dub. I have to say its the best accent in the world. afterall the northsiders are the blacks of dublin and dublin of course is the blacks of ireland!

The real divide is east/west.

ScumLord

It's awful, it's like listening to someone that learned to speak English from a deaf person. That was drunk.

blinding

Ah the Dubs are alright and
how would I know they were dubs if they did not talk like dat.

Kensington

"Ah nnnjaaaaaaaaaaaaesus - me bleedin' pho-en batt-tree's gone flah!!!!"
"Mis-tor, spoh us some cha-enge will yeee?"

Although then there's the other extreme:
"Oh roysh, well the focking 46A is like, late, YET AGAIN, oh my god, like, focking Dublin Bus oh my god"

Voltex

The one those chipper lads/lassies from inner city flat complexes use...
they use words like:

"Buke"= Book
"Ren" = Run or Ran...havent quite figured that one yet
"Windes"= Windows.

dutchcat

Voltex wrote: »

Is it cute or an assault on the ear?

what are you going to do if you get a stubble wielding, checkout operator with a dublin accent:rolleyes:.........prat

dlofnep

Out of curiosity - Did anyone from outside Dublin actually vote for it being cute?

Prof.Badass

dutchcat wrote: »

what are you going to do if you get a stubble wielding, checkout operator with a dublin accent:rolleyes:.........prat

Nothing. He needs new material for each troll :pac:.

G_R

if fairness its better that what you hear in Cork or in the Wesht, at least ye can understand us.

orourkeda

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »

Fair City

Wife-beating

Heroin use

Gargle

Aslan

"Could you spare us some change for a hostel?"

IRELAND and NO FEAR tattoos

:pac:

You wouldnt catch a homeless herion junkie wife beating alcoholic aslan fan in Munster. At least they were civilised enough to leave.

WIZE

Voltex. Where are you from

Profiler

AARRRGH wrote: »

Which part of Dublin?

Dublin accents range from having no accent at all to sounding like you grew up in the circus.

Can the OP answer this question?

The D4/UCD accent is a million Miles from the Inner City/Ballymun accent. Both are totally different from mine and I grew up in D9...

Otherwise it's the equivalent of saying, you know the Cork/Donegal accent (the one everyone in both counties share, because the sound exactly the same) how good/bad is it?

pikachucheeks

Surely this should be in the Dublin forum? :P

I like the Dublin accent - thick Dublin accents on guys can be weirdly sexy.
The posh accent is quite nice too - Well spoken ones, not American wannabes.

Voltex

BVB wrote: »

Voltex. Where are you from

Naas

Ferris_Bueller

dlofnep wrote: »

Out of curiosity - Did anyone from outside Dublin actually vote for it being cute?

Yes.

I like it more than most other accents anyway, not sure if cute is the best discription though? Cant stand when people put it on though.

gandhi123

AARRRGH wrote: »

....sounding like you grew up in the circus.

Joey the lips wrote: »

...afterall the northsiders are the blacks of dublin and dublin of course is the blacks of ireland!

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »

Fair City

Wife-beating

Heroin use

Gargle

Aslan

"Could you spare us some change for a hostel?"

IRELAND and NO FEAR tattoos

:pac:

bigdogbarking wrote: »

bleeding ****e

dlofnep wrote: »

It's a pretty vomit-inducing accent.

ScumLord wrote: »

It's awful, it's like listening to someone that learned to speak English from a deaf person. That was drunk.

So why is it that these posters can sterotype a million or so people and not get banned just cause "it's only Dublin"...


If i stereotyped people from Cork as inbreed F ucktards *, or Ginger haired people as P ussies* or god forbid mention anything about people from Romania:eek:... i'd be banned no questions asked...

Double standards i reckon..

I am from Dublin and yes i do have a Dublin accent...

Posts reported.


*these are not my beliefs just examples of bannable sterotypeing

Ps. i'm Not trolling... just pissed about these narrow minded views...

Cupcake_Crisis

pikachucheeks wrote: »

Surely this should be in the Dublin forum? :P

I like the Dublin accent - thick Dublin accents on guys can be weirdly sexy.
The posh accent is quite nice too - Well spoken ones, not American wannabes.

Thick Dublin accents are sooo not sexy!! Possibly the biggest turn of ever!!

Listening to Dublin accents on telly is just embarrassing!! I always cringe!! My friends from up north find it very amusing though. They dont get any kicks outta me, apparently i have a very neutral accent

pikachucheeks

Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »

Thick Dublin accents are sooo not sexy!! Possibly the biggest turn of ever!!

Ah, I know a few guys with them and it adds to their appeal!

Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »

apparently i have a very neutral accent

I've been told that too. Although, in college, I'm "the posh one". I always get slagged by the guys from Tallaght in my class for being a "D4".
Idiots.

Midnight_EG

pikachucheeks wrote: »

I've been told that too. Although, in college, I'm "the posh one". I always get slagged by the guys from Tallaght in my class for being a "D4".
Idiots.

Oh go cry to doddy.

pikachucheeks

Midnight_EG wrote: »

Oh go cry to doddy.

I would, but there's loyke, no petrol left in my Merc.

Midnight_EG

pikachucheeks wrote: »

I would, but there's loyke, no petrol left in my Merc.

Use the daysel Land Rover you surely have in Cork so

Voltex

without saying i like the accent or not...my view is that it evolved out of laziness. Some words in English require just a little effort to say...like most "ing" words...but a Dublin accent would cut off the "g" bit in favour of "runnin" of "bleedin".
So basically people with a dublin accent could be decended from lazy people...maybe thats why so many live in Council Houses...they dont like to work....or in themselves are just lazy.

jaffa20

The South Dublin accent is fine as long as it isn't very posh.

The D4 accent is terrible, wanabe americans

jaffa20

Voltex wrote: »

without saying i like the accent or not...my view is that it evolved out of laziness. Some words in English require just a little effort to say...like most "ing" words...but a Dublin accent would cut off the "g" bit in favour of "runnin" of "bleedin".
So basically people with a dublin accent could be decended from lazy people...maybe thats why so many live in Council Houses...they dont like to work....or in themselves are just lazy.

The "G" is silent in "ing". i'd love to hear how you say it

Will

The two extremes annoy me slightly i.e the stupidly posh one and the scumbag one but generally people can't help it. I'd be more worried about how the act than how they sound at the end of the day.

Voltex

rainbow kirby

jaffa20 wrote: »

The South Dublin accent is fine as long as it isn't very posh.

The D4 accent is terrible, wanabe americans

Agreed. Blocking out the piercing D4 accent on any bus to UCD is a very important function of any MP3 player.

ronano

just another thread for those outside dublin to bash dublin and in 5mins sure the dubliners will be doing it to the rest of ireland.

I'm baffled how we ever became a nation

docdolittle

Voltex wrote: »

without saying i like the accent or not...my view is that it evolved out of laziness. Some words in English require just a little effort to say...like most "ing" words...but a Dublin accent would cut off the "g" bit in favour of "runnin" of "bleedin".
So basically people with a dublin accent could be decended from lazy people...maybe thats why so many live in Council Houses...they dont like to work....or in themselves are just lazy.

Em.... Have you ever been to England!? The ammount of times I had to listen to people not pronoucing the letter "h" in England is unreal! e.g. orrible, ospital so on and so forth... :rolleyes:

Nozebleed

Joey the lips wrote: »

Speaking as a common northsider dub. I have to say its the best accent in the world. afterall the northsiders are the blacks of dublin and dublin of course is the blacks of ireland!

not anymore my friend!:P that's pre celtic tiger talk there!

Proto

Stereotypes? In AH? NO! :eek:

Snowie

Joey the lips wrote: »

Speaking as a common northsider dub. I have to say its the best accent in the world. afterall the northsiders are the blacks of dublin and dublin of course is the blacks of ireland!

The cheasey line in any movie/book ever said its awfull....


No dublin accents are horrible the women sound blokish and sorta butch and most men sound like dey bleeeedin love sa sound of the der own voice......

much prefer country girls accents for nicer... :cool:

WIZE

Why is it that every day there is a thread started about People from Dublin .

Dublin is full of Knackers
Dublin is ****e
Dublin accents are ****e

I read nothing but insult about the capital . Mods should look into this as its gone past a joke:mad:

Bob_Harris

Cute like aul Mr Brennan?

He has a horrible accent.

arybvtcw0eolkf

brummytom wrote: »

Love a big t'ick Dub accent.

I remember mom asking the taxi driver if there were any shops near;
"Sure d'eres abewt a hundert dewn dere"

Or my moms cousin during the summer
"TOM! D'ya tink way've got Dubberlin accents?!"

Lovely

I bet a pound to a pinch of sh*t you were expecting a ton of 'thanks' for that one eh!..

Personally I'm told I speak like Steve Collins (the boxer chap from Cabra).

.

Bob_Harris

BVB wrote: »

Why is it that every day there is a thread started about People from Dublin .

Dublin is full of Knackers
Dublin is ****e
Dublin accents are ****e

I read nothing but insult about the capital . Mods should look into this as its gone past a joke:mad:

They should post them in the Dublin forum for a start.