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What's the worst accent?

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    #32
    bambera
    Registered Users Posts: 356 ✭✭bambera


    Fago! wrote: »
    It's all put on, so I hear.
    Saibh wrote: »
    Anyone that tries to imitate any accent and does a bad job on it.

    my point exactly :)


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    #33
    uvox
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    plein de force wrote: »
    a thick kerry accent is horrible and you can't hear what they're saying, it doesn't sound like english

    i hate welsh accents too

    I now love Welsh accents after I heard Road Rage by Catatonia. I think context is critical to perception of accents.


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    #34
    caseyann
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    plein de force wrote: »
    a thick kerry accent is horrible and you can't hear what they're saying, it doesn't sound like english

    i hate welsh accents too

    Makes sense seen as they are from kerry,they wouldnt be speaking English:D


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    #35
    Mimojo
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    Def the D4 account, esp on people who are not for Dublin but have somehow managed to adopt a version of it

    Not a big fan of the cork accent, have to agree with another poster that it very turkey-ish.

    That really happy American accent too "Have a nice day!", gawd its awful


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    #36
    caseyann
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    The people on all the shows on tv like maury and jeremy kyle etc.... I need subtitles to under stand a word they are saying :mad:


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    #37
    jd007
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    Jedward



    /thread


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    #38
    tony1kenobi
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    I hate Grahams accent....I should find out where he is from....but I won't...because I hate his face too.


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    #39
    Yakult
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    Dublin accent is probably the worst, ye all sound like scum bags.


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    #40
    jesus_thats_gre
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    Ardee, Dundalk and Drogheda are all horrible. Thank god I have largely lost the Dundalk accent!


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    #41
    Larianne
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    jesus_thats_gre wrote: »
    Ardee, Dundalk and Drogheda are all horrible. Thank god I have largely lost the Dundalk accent!

    I went travelling with a guy from Dundalk. I used to have to translate everything for people who we met! :pac:


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    #42
    christ on a bike!
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    Let's not forget Caaaaaaaaaaavan


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    #43
    KeithM89_old
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    Larianne wrote: »
    I went travelling with a guy from Dundalk. I used to have to translate everything for people who we met! :pac:

    Not our finest moment:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC_W-vaEMTc


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    #44
    DerekDGoldfish
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    caseyann wrote: »
    The people on all the shows on tv like maury and jeremy kyle etc.... I need subtitles to under stand a word they are saying :mad:

    I remember futball mundial or a similar show doing an intewview with Brian Kerr back in the day and they had subtitles in englsih while he was speaking.

    Cant imagine how he gets on in the Faroes


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    #45
    Larianne
    Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    jesus_thats_gre

    christ on a bike!

    Love the names! :)
    Keithm89 wrote: »
    Not our finest moment:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC_W-vaEMTc

    Ah, brings me back! :pac: Shockin accent!


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    #46
    bored and fussy
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    I have no problem with accents if I can understand what people are saying.

    I cannot stand people trying to pronounce their THs and doing it badly.

    I swear I heard Joe duffy saying RTE doth com. It sounded terrible.
    He would be wise to speak the way he speaks at home in his mothers.

    I would have no problem with that, but I have a huge problem with him struggling to speak Proper


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    #47
    Wade in the Sea
    Registered Users Posts: 276 ✭✭Wade in the Sea


    caseyann wrote: »
    Out of curiosity how many Dublin accents do you think there is?:p

    Nine

    D4 - Roight, Blackrock-Dalkey
    D-South, West Brit/North Wicklow (annexed in 1999)
    D-Orange County
    Co Dub South County, Brayish
    Co Dub North County, Skerries/ Rushish
    D-North (hon. South Sider), Clontarf Howth
    D-North, salt of the earth.
    D-Inner Scum bag/of the Hoodie Clan
    Dublin, ("Man" used a lot) dialectic hybrid of D-South & D-North


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    #48
    orourkeda
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    The scouse accent is horrible I think. Theres something really skangery about it.


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    #49
    caseyann
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    Wade in the Sea wrote: »
    Nine

    D4 - Roight, Blackrock-Dalkey
    D-South, West Brit/North Wicklow (annexed in 1999)
    D-Orange County
    Co Dub South County, Brayish
    Co Dub North County, Skerries/ Rushish
    D-North (hon. South Sider), Clontarf Howth
    D-North, salt of the earth.
    D-Inner Scum bag/of the Hoodie Clan
    Dublin, ("Man" used a lot) dialectic hybrid of D-South & D-North

    I take it that points to where you live :D


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    #50
    MJ23
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    Cork
    "d'ye knooooow like"
    What does a cork dog say? Woof Woof Boy
    And why the fúck has the word 'like' have to be said 20 times in every sentence ?


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    #51
    Gunsfortoys
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    MJ23 wrote: »
    Cork
    "d'ye knooooow like"
    What does a cork dog say? Woof Woof Boy
    And why the fúck has the word 'like' have to be said 20 times in every sentence ?


    As opposed to loike?


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    #52
    christ on a bike!
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    Scandanavian accents, just from complete jealousy of their uncanny ability to speak better English than the majority of natural English speakers


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    #53
    Sergeant
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    I find the Estuary accent from Essex/Kent to be particularly annoying. It is the very essence of Ford Mondeo man. And they use an intrusive-R. Awful.


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    #54
    Dizraeligears
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    Tha Cyaaavan accent where s is pronounced as sh.
    I was in a pub there once where the lady behind the bar announces to the whole place while pulling at the back of her jeans:
    ''Jaysus these knickursh is cuttin th'arsh off me''


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    #55
    3hn2givr7mx1sc
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    The Naas accent, it's like Dublin but it's not quite there, it's extremely annoying.

    I know one chungwan who pulls it off* quite sexily, though, I must say.:)

    EDIT:*the accent, not my todger, unfortunately.


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    #56
    Elliemental
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    Certain strains of the Belfast accent can be utterly horrendous.


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    #57
    Lu Tze
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    Cork and certain wicklow accents, specifically Arkla and Wickla town


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    #58
    Benny Lava
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    Some really horrible accents have been mentioned in this thread.

    However, South Dublin is the by far the worst of the worst. Can't stand it.

    I find the Cork one funny to hear, like. I don't know why people can't stand it, boy.

    Some Tipperary accents are also aural torture.


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    #59
    super_furry
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    Cork. Just Cork.


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    #60
    xw2lj9uspm1eyh
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    Has to be the liverpudlian /Scouse accent ,I have to switch channels anytime Steven Gerrard or Jamie Carragher do an interview but now I have to switch channels every 5 minutes when I see that Daz ad with Jennifer Ellison in it.:mad:


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    #61
    PeterIanStaker
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    The D4 one is awful. Remember hearing it for the first time when I went to Irish college in '97 or so.

    The Irish college in question is on the mainland, but "the goys" wanted to know "when are we loike, getting the ferry to the Oiland"


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