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D4 accent

  • 14-05-2013 10:17AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48


    Why do people call the south dublin accent a D4 accent when the vast majority of people who speak like that come outside that post code, like blackrock, foxrock, dundrum,rathfarnham, ternure etc..


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Suprisingly the majority of people I meet with D4 accents don't even come from Dublin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 jamesjoyce1710


    true dat, a lot of girls from tipp seem to develop it after 2 weeks in UCD


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,926 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    And a lot of the D4 accent heads aren't American either :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    It's the the name of the accent. It's like saying people have a bogger accent, but they don't come from the town of Bogger.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭Cody Pomeray


    why anybody? would choose to speak in such a like, manufactured? americanised accent? is what i, like dont understand?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Better to refer to is as the 'Dort' accent (although I'd rather not classify it as an accent, rather a stupid way of speaking).

    It has a better geographical alignment with the DART rail line than the D4 postcode area and this term better mimics the ridiculous substitution of the AH sound (hat cat chat) with an OH sound (hot not what) that characterises this stupid way of speaking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Would still rather hear that than the "ah jayyssuus bud me bleeeedin' head wha?" Dub accent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    I'm from D4 and I don't speak like that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    the two extremes are just as bad as each other. i find the D4 accent just as gut wrenching as the howya accent. also i think both of them are exaggerated by the culprits intentionally.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    I think it's just a loose descriptive term OP, people from Clontarf or Castleknock would have the same accent as well, it gets labelled D4 as that's the first typical middle class area of Dublin that springs to people's minds.

    As regards the 'howya' accent, I've no idea how they give it that grating nasal quality, can't replicate it to save my life.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,624 ✭✭✭SebBerkovich


    Without the D4 accent how are Banker supposed know who they're supposed to promote?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15 spot_light


    fine if your actually from there , was in mayo the other day and met someone from claremorris with a D4 accent


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Orts inn YouCeeDee


  • Administrators Posts: 55,229 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    The D4 accent is easier to understand than the bogger accents where they try and fit the entire sentence into a single word and speak it in a single breath.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Con Logue


    snubbleste wrote: »
    Orts inn YouCeeDee

    Or Orla, graduating from Orts and now working in Or Tee Eee


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 404 ✭✭frank reynolds


    it originates from Culchies coming to dublin and believing that this is the way that dubs speak from watching too much RTE at home and trying to emulate the accent to "fit in". idiots.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭13spanner


    it originates from Culchies coming to dublin and believing that this is the way that dubs speak from watching too much RTE at home and trying to emulate the accent to "fit in". idiots.

    Frank if it's an East - Wessht fight you're after it wont be long comin' :pac:

    The "D4" accent is a head-wrecker, you get the feeling people think a little more of themselves of they say cor instead of car. It takes all sorts I s'pose!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 440 ✭✭3qsmavrod5twfe


    awec wrote: »
    The D4 accent is easier to understand than the bogger accents where they try and fit the entire sentence into a single word and speak it in a single breath.

    Jayzizwhachameanlikenoonetriestotalklikethatlike?!


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    nothing wrong at all with the D4 accent, opens alot more job opportunities for people and is one of the easier accents to understand. Also its not tied to one place to anyone can pick it up and better themselves with out feeling they sound out of character.

    People need to grow up


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭BlueJohn


    Why do people call the south dublin accent a D4 accent when the vast majority of people who speak like that come outside that post code, like blackrock, foxrock, dundrum,rathfarnham, ternure etc..


    No one in rathfarnham speaks like that. Well no I have talked to anyway.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32 heinz hummer


    owe moy godge


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    topper75 wrote: »
    Better to refer to is as the 'Dort' accent (although I'd rather not classify it as an accent, rather a stupid way of speaking).

    It has a better geographical alignment with the DART rail line than the D4 postcode area and this term better mimics the ridiculous substitution of the AH sound (hat cat chat) with an OH sound (hot not what) that characterises this stupid way of speaking.

    Agree with you about the DART line for sure. Don't agree with the stupid way of speaking remark. Unless you're a very good voice actor you can't control your accent no matter what background you come from. :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭candy-gal1


    Both the "ah jaysus howya" and the "oh moi gawd" accents really make me :rolleyes: when I hear them, both are annoying and either put on to seem tough or as airs and graces imho.
    Overheard a group of lads in town once saying "Lets go to the pob for a point of heino" I sincerely hope that wasnt put on by them and that they actually speak like that, sounded excessively put on though to me! :pac:

    Originally from Clontarf myself and thats where home is for me and I hope to get back somewhere there as soon as I have the cash/job etc, but I dont have what is said by a "D4" accent - well to me I dont anyway :) - but I have moved quite a bit since and including living full time there so that may have something to do with it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    13spanner wrote: »
    Frank if it's an East - Wessht fight you're after it wont be long comin' :pac:

    The "D4" accent is a head-wrecker, you get the feeling people think a little more of themselves of they say cor instead of car. It takes all sorts I s'pose!

    And the fact that consciously changing your accent is quite difficult for a lot of people, let alone doing it 24/7 has no bearing on this...?

    Just because you have a certain accent, doesn't say anything whatsoever about your personality. Accents are defined by your brain adapting to its surroundings in terms of dialect - as you'll know if you've had any relatives live in America or Australia for a couple of years and then come home, sounding like a foreigner for a couple of weeks or months but then gradually slipping back in to the Irish accent.

    Hell, my dad's from Limerick / Kerry and moved to Dublin for college after his LC. When he's in Dublin you'd barely tell he's not from Dublin, yet he only lasts about 5 minutes when he goes home before he regains his original accent.

    It means nothing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69 ✭✭kennryyr


    Much rather the D4 accent to the scumbag accent to be honest.

    At least you can tell from a distance that they don't usually sell drugs / rob cars / want to stab you with a screwdriver


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32 heinz hummer


    i heard some yank on the rte news sayin the bus eireann strike means he cant get to DONNIGAL or SLEEGO,,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Con Logue wrote: »
    Or Orla, graduating from Orts and now working in Or Tee Eee

    Would you prefer if she pronounced it "Aaarleh"? ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Some people more than others, depends on their 'aspirations'.
    I know one guy went to California for a month, had to ask directions in the local shop to his own house when he came back.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    My favourite way of summing up this debate:
    "We're on da lash! Oi'm with me creew! We're gettin' sh!t faced! Going OOO OOO OOO!!!"
    "We're on the lock. Loike oh my gawd. We're tewtally gee-oyed. Going yaw, yaw, yawwwwwwww" ;)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭13spanner



    It means nothing.

    The accent itself means nothing. I moved in with a Kerry and a Cork lad in college and I surprised myself with the things they had me saying.

    True to say the accent itself is nothing, it's just the supposed "D4" stereotype that's been created around it. Realistically it doesn't define a person, but the image that has been created comes to mind pretty quick. Even if it is just a joke.


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