The Dublin Skanger accent

dd972

Do they put on this nasal slurring accent or is it organic and natural to them ?, I for one, find it impossible to replicate or imitate.

(I realise this will inevitably be a skanger bashing thread)

However it's the authenticity of how they talk I find intriguing, is it some sort of badge ? if I was afflicted with such a dreadful accent then I'd try to modify it in some way, it'd probably be impossible to morph it into some kind of South County Dublin Dortspeak, but I'm sure it could at least be neutralised into something listenable.

paddy147

Here we go again............

CavanCrew

Hahahahaha, you're going to get eaten up in this thread for this.

Martyn1989

dd972 wrote: »

Do they put on this nasal slurring accent or is it organic and natural to them ?, I for one, find it impossible to replicate or imitate.

(I realise this will inevitably be a skanger bashing thread)

However it's the authenticity of how they talk I find intriguing, is it some sort of badge ? if I was afflicted with such a dreadful accent then I'd try to modify it in some way, it'd probably be impossible to morph it into some kind of South County Dublin Dortspeak, but I'm sure it could at least be neutralised into something listenable.

I want to know what your accent is like.

The Dublin accent is acquired from living in a thriving cosmopoliton city, boggers wouldn't understand :cool:

Lumbo

dd972 wrote: »

if I was afflicted with such a dreadful accent then I'd try to modify it in some way, it'd probably be impossible to morph it into some kind of South County Dublin Dortspeak.

I'd rather sound like a skanger

Fight_Night

The skanger accent(as opposed to the typical 'working class' Dublin accent) is put on by most people to either sound tough or to fit in, very few actually talk like that when with their families.

shar01

dd972 wrote: »

Do they put on this nasal slurring accent or is it organic and natural to them ?, I for one, find it impossible to replicate or imitate.

I've been told by a social worker that the nasal drawl in down to drug use.

Duggy747

If you cut a skanger, he'll bleed heroin :pac:

NegativeCreep

dd972 wrote: »

Do they put on this nasal slurring accent or is it organic and natural to them ?, I for one, find it impossible to replicate or imitate.

(I realise this will inevitably be a skanger bashing thread)

However it's the authenticity of how they talk I find intriguing, is it some sort of badge ? if I was afflicted with such a dreadful accent then I'd try to modify it in some way, it'd probably be impossible to morph it into some kind of South County Dublin Dortspeak, but I'm sure it could at least be neutralised into something listenable.

Is somehow better? how?

Lapin

dd972 wrote: »

(I realise this will inevitably be a skanger bashing thread)

So you also realise it probably won't last pissin time.

paddy147

shar01 wrote: »

I've been told by a social worker that the nasal drawl in down to drug use.

is the social worker a qualified medical professional person??

Nodin

dd972 wrote: »

.........., it'd probably be impossible to morph it into some kind of South County Dublin Dortspeak, .......

What an awful shame.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Fight_Night wrote: »

The skanger accent(as opposed to the typical 'working class' Dublin accent) is put on by most people to either sound tough or to fit in, very few actually talk like that when with their families.

Really??? You mean they have enough brain capacity to put on a fake accent to sound tough but not enough to realise that they sound downright fucking retarded!

Sunnyisland

Wha

alastair

dd972 wrote: »

it'd probably be impossible to morph it into some kind of South County Dublin Dortspeak

That's South County Dublin Dorshespeak - tooootaly!

Madam_X

I just find it funny; whereas the really posh one makes me want to do a Van Gogh on my ears.

Tombi!

I think it's natural. A few lads I know (well knew) didn't change that way around their familes. Though their familes didn't sound like them.

But I have a slightly skanger accent, though it's more of an inner-city thing, I think.

I don't sound nasally at all. I just sound like the standard "ah jaysus will you ever bleeding shut d fook up with dat accent" thing.

Oddly I don't think I've ever heard a girl with it.

Maybe it's a kinda mating season thing. You know, the lads have the nasal sound to indicate they want to mate and the women respond by stretching out names like "Jacinta" to "Jacinnnnntehhhhhhhhhhhh" to reply to the males to let them know that they accept their offer of making a baby.

Galwayguy35

It's amazing how the dublin accent differs so much in different parts of the city.

McCrack

dd972 wrote: »

Do they put on this nasal slurring accent or is it organic and natural to them ?, I for one, find it impossible to replicate or imitate.

(I realise this will inevitably be a skanger bashing thread)

However it's the authenticity of how they talk I find intriguing, is it some sort of badge ? if I was afflicted with such a dreadful accent then I'd try to modify it in some way, it'd probably be impossible to morph it into some kind of South County Dublin Dortspeak, but I'm sure it could at least be neutralised into something listenable.

You come across as a w@nker

shar01

paddy147 wrote: »

is the social worker a qualified medical professional person??

I didn't ask for their credentials. But I do know they work with the type of person the OP describes.

FatherLen

i have lived in dublin for most of my life and i don't have a skanger accent. you can tell i am a dub alright. i know people who grew up in the same area as me and have the thickest skanger accent imaginable. i think they choose the accent as a sort of hardman persona.

latenia

There's definitely a difference between the traditional Dublin accent from places like the Liberties and Ringsend, where the people were easily understood and actually had a large vocabulary and distinctive syntax, and the agressive cacophony veering between slurred and screeching that the current lumpenproletariat favour.

Tombi!

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

It's amazing how the dublin accent differs so much in different parts of the city.

I thought London was the same, no?

What's interesting is that it changes so drastically when you go from one sideof the Liffey to the other. That one is amazing.

rubadubduba

they all dont speak skanger.

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

kr7

McCrack wrote: »

You come across as a w@nker

That would be a 'bleedin' w@nker if you don't mind.....:D

Miss Lockhart

shar01 wrote: »

I've been told by a social worker that the nasal drawl in down to drug use.

In my experience drug use (heroin/methadone) seems to cause them to speak slowly and have a shake in their voice, a la Adam and Paul. I don't think it has anything to do with the nasal tones though.

Galwayguy35

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

I thought London was the same, no?

What's interesting is that it changes so drastically when you go from one sideof the Liffey to the other. That one is amazing.

Well yeah thats what I mean.

eth0

Its better by far than all the south dublin gobsh1te accents and put-on american/posh british ones

Yamanoto

'I'm noh wipin' meself wir a Tayto bag'

Great movie Adam & Paul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0Ja6k12Zzc

mike65

do you be taking the piss?

geneyuss

Martyn1989 wrote: »

I want to know what your accent is like.

The Dublin accent is acquired from living in a thriving cosmopoliton city, boggers wouldn't understand :cool:

yeah ??

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/drugs-drink-and-the-stench-of-urine-are-alive-alive-oh-2641812.html



tell us more

i'd rather be a bogger than smell like a bog

johnROSS

can iva quar pownder wit chiyis pilyis? anna curry chip?

norrie rugger

Martyn1989 wrote: »

I want to know what your accent is like.

The Dublin accent is acquired from living in a thriving cosmopoliton city, boggers wouldn't understand :cool:

Please tell me that you are having a laugh. As much as I actually like living in Dublin; No, just no.

Jay D

dd972 wrote: »

Do they put on this nasal slurring accent or is it organic and natural to them ?, I for one, find it impossible to replicate or imitate.

(I realise this will inevitably be a skanger bashing thread)

However it's the authenticity of how they talk I find intriguing, is it some sort of badge ? if I was afflicted with such a dreadful accent then I'd try to modify it in some way, it'd probably be impossible to morph it into some kind of South County Dublin Dortspeak, but I'm sure it could at least be neutralised into something listenable.

The problem with people like you is that you live in a shell. You can't distinguish a person from their accent and will tarnish anyone who speaks a certain way with all sorts of unfounded imagination. People like you need to get out more and off internet forums trying to find your way in life. Yes you do.

Brain dead isn't close to describing the point in this thread.

Vicar in a tutu

Jay D wrote: »

The problem with people like you is that you live in a shell. You can't distinguish a person from their accent and will tarnish anyone who speaks a certain way with all sorts of unfounded imagination. People like you need to get out more and off internet forums trying to find your way in life. Yes you do.

Brain dead isn't close to describing the point in this thread.

This.

Some people need to get over themselves, who honestly gives a shit.

Tombi!

Jay D wrote: »

The problem with people like you is that you live in a shell. You can't distinguish a person from their accent and will tarnish anyone who speaks a certain way with all sorts of unfounded imagination. People like you need to get out more and off internet forums trying to find your way in life. Yes you do.

Brain dead isn't close to describing the point in this thread.

I tell you what, you name me someone succesful with the obviously exgerarrated scumbag accent and then maybe you have a point.

There's a differene between someone like me with an inner city accent and someone who you know has no problem getting locked on the streets, having a slash against the wall in broad daylight and generally doesn't give a damn about anyone but themselves.

Gran Hermano

It is the plastic paddy accent that I find similar to listening to fingernails dragging down a blackboard. A bastardisation of Irish and English or Irish with American.

Vicar in a tutu

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

I tell you what, you name me someone succesful with the obviously exgerarrated scumbag accent and then maybe you have a point.

There's a differene between someone like me with an inner city accent and someone who you know has no problem getting locked on the streets, having a slash against the wall in broad daylight and generally doesn't give a damn about anyone but themselves.

Do you personally know each and every one of these people?

mattjack

shar01 wrote: »

I've been told by a social worker that the nasal drawl in down to drug use.

paddy147 wrote: »

is the social worker a qualified medical professional person??

Heroin sometimes affects strength of muscles causing slurred/distortion of speech.

Tombi!

Vicar in a tutu wrote: »

Do you personally know each and every one of these people?

Neither do you.

But can you find me an example of someone who has the accent and is a successful and doesn't behave in the typical scumbag manner or are you just guessing we shouldn't judge them?

Like it or not, the nasal accent is not natural, at all. It's like someone from the inner city trying to sound posh, you can see right through it and they sound like idiots. Just like people with the nasal accent do.

Super-Rush

Leave the Dubs alone.