Hybrid accents

krudler · 13-10-2011 12:51pm #1

Anyone coming across more of these lately? had a guy ringing in earlier at work who was Polish,living in Cork, and had a bizarre mix of both accents. "I vould like to pay ze bill...how much is it laike?" have heard it happening a lot lately with people who would have emigrated here. its also funny hearing non-Irish people using very Irish phrases, had a Chinese guy with broken English ask me "hows the craic" one time on a call.

maygitchell · 13-10-2011 12:57pm

D1/D4 quicker than an F1 gear change, most notably stupid wee hoors that be at that craic

Dotrel · 13-10-2011 12:59pm

Yeah I've heard them more frequently. I guess it's just a natural phenomenon to pick up phrases and pronunciations of the country you come to live it.

Of course it happens to the Irish too when they go abroad. The "Irish American" one is my favourite. Sounds kinda weird, almost fake (like wrestling).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFvmJt82eLM

FatherLen · 13-10-2011 1:05pm

Dotrel wrote: »

Yeah I've heard them more frequently. I guess it's just a natural phenomenon to pick up phrases and pronunciations of the country you come to live it.

Of course it happens to the Irish too when they go abroad. The "Irish American" one is my favourite. Sounds kinda weird, almost fake (like wrestling).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFvmJt82eLM

that guy sounds like an absolute prick!

who the fug · 13-10-2011 1:06pm

Know a Shi Lanka guy in London, if you spoke to him on the phone you be trying to figure out if he be Kerry or Cork

Learnt his english on the building sites

FinnLizzy · 13-10-2011 1:16pm

North Sligo is an interesting case. The accent border is so distinct that the North Sligo folk have Sligo accents, and 2 miles up the road in Bundoran, they all sound like their in the 'RA.

Those that live in Sligo but go to school in Donegal, have a funny American like accent.

I also know a Lithuanian who has been living in Cork since the age of twelve. Indescribable!

Ste_D · 13-10-2011 1:19pm

I remember hearing Peter Schmichael interviewed a year or 2 after he moved to Manchester and his accent was hilarious. A nice Danish/Manc cross!

foxyboxer · 13-10-2011 1:22pm

Graeme McDowell, the golfer springs to mind.

He affects a quasi american-northern irish twang.

who the fug · 13-10-2011 1:22pm

Ste_D wrote: »

I remember hearing Peter Schmichael interviewed a year or 2 after he moved to Manchester and his accent was hilarious. A nice Danish/Manc cross!

Dainish/Scouse

Ste_D · 13-10-2011 1:24pm

No, scouse = liverpool!

foxyboxer · 13-10-2011 1:24pm

Julio Geordio!

The King of Moo · 13-10-2011 1:26pm

I've met a few Brazilian guys with hybrid Galway accents. It's really quite a mix and the Galway accent really comes out at the end of sentences, often in the form of "dyaknowwhatameanlike!?" in a proper Galway "town" accent.

who the fug · 13-10-2011 1:26pm

Ste_D wrote: »

No, scouse = liverpool!

and your point is

AnonoBoy · 13-10-2011 1:27pm

Chinese/Dublin is one of my favourites at the moment.

Ste_D · 13-10-2011 1:28pm

who the fug wrote: »

Dainish/Scouse

who the fug wrote: »

and your point is

I was replying to who the fug

Jake Rugby Walrus666 · 13-10-2011 1:30pm

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John Doe1 · 13-10-2011 2:02pm

FinnLizzy wrote: »

North Sligo is an interesting case. The accent border is so distinct that the North Sligo folk have Sligo accents, and 2 miles up the road in Bundoran, they all sound like their in the 'RA.

Those that live in Sligo but go to school in Donegal, have a funny American like accent.

I also know a Lithuanian who has been living in Cork since the age of twelve. Indescribable!

Really bundoran people sound like they are in the Ra?. Im from east donegal and they all sound sligoish to me

MrJoeSoap · 13-10-2011 2:20pm

foxyboxer wrote: »

Graeme McDowell, the golfer springs to mind.

He affects a quasi american-northern irish twang.

Nadine Coyle is going that way too, she's forcing out the US twang. It's horrific.

Chuck Stone · 13-10-2011 2:40pm

Former GF had a half-Cork half-German accent and developed a penchent for swearing (picked up the swearing off me).

First time we went for dinner in my folks house she was swearing away in her half Cork half German accent and my folks don't really swear.

Twas hilarious.

Sky King · 13-10-2011 2:44pm

We irish do swear a lot. I remember living with a spanish guy in college who had blended in my Kilkenny accent and expressions by the end of the year.

Me: Juan how is your smokey bacon burger?
Juan: It's a-fuckin a-deadly, boy.

UnknownSpecies · 13-10-2011 2:47pm

Steve McLaren is a hilarious example...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWptErAWrmQ

fontanalis · 13-10-2011 3:39pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSXzRWlL7Z0

Wertz · 13-10-2011 3:52pm

Nadine Coyle; Derry to SoCal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLJMdbYP4So

Skip to 1m 30

maygitchell · 13-10-2011 3:55pm

Wertz wrote: »

Nadine Coyle; Derry to SoCal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLJMdbYP4So

Skip to 1m 30

Man she is one gimp getting

Big Nasty · 13-10-2011 3:56pm

Gay Dub Scroate is the best!

Sooopie · 13-10-2011 4:14pm

lady on ireland am, bemoaning the fact that she owed the banks 1 million eura spoke with a hybrid of knack dub to english

t'was strange

flas · 13-10-2011 4:34pm

Wertz wrote: »

Nadine Coyle; Derry to SoCal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLJMdbYP4So

Skip to 1m 30

i had a teacher from fermanagh in school who sounded exactly like that...

Dotrel · 13-10-2011 4:44pm

Wertz wrote: »

Nadine Coyle; Derry to SoCal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLJMdbYP4So

Skip to 1m 30

and then stop at 2m 08

(or at least that's what I did, couldn't take any more)

What a hideous squaking mish-mash of an accent. It's like taking the worst Irish accent and the worst American one and combining them into something that is more evil than the sum of their parts.

JerryHandbag · 13-10-2011 4:44pm

I love the Cork/Carribean one myself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QHYFXDGf4Y

Flincher · 13-10-2011 5:00pm

Dietmar Hamann on RTE during the World Cup was gas. German-Scouse.

Decent pundit in fairness to him.

sh1tstirrer · 13-10-2011 5:59pm

Roy Keane half Cork half Manchester

Wertz · 13-10-2011 8:06pm

maygitchell wrote: »

Man she is one gimp getting

Yeah but you'd still

Earplugs at the ready though.

ShadowHearth · 13-10-2011 8:37pm

I am lithuanian and live in cork, but I am pc gamer and talk to friends in northern Ireland daily.

So Irish here loughing at my northern Irish phrases and accent, then the lads from north lough at me, because of my southern accent.

To make thing even worse I learned English by gaming and watching DVD on original language + subtitles. So there's a hint of American too...

All this on top of my Lithuanian accent makes me some sort of mutant!

Dudess · 13-10-2011 8:45pm

Worked with a really camp guy who had a half Liverpool, half Cork accent (both the really strong ones) - an absolute tonic!

softmee · 13-10-2011 9:03pm

I am polish and when I first came to Ireland I was living in Donegal for over a year. (It was a nightmare to understand some local people at the beginning)
Now I hear from time to time I have a donegal accent mixed with not eastern european, but german accent -no idea why... :pac:

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