The D4 Accent is a disease...

Neon_Lights

How does a person from central finglas or cabra end up with a d4 accent, such pretence annoys me... I hear nowadays wagons all over touting this intollerable ball of pretence... even down in the rural places of cork and limerick there is a variant...does anybody agree ... loike?

The Moldy Gowl

You face is a diesease

Neon_Lights

Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »

You face is a diesease

I cannot even start to begin to pick out whats wrong with that response haha....

UCDVet

Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »

You face is a diesease

My face is an STD. Just sayin

mikemac1

Neon_Lights wrote: »

How does a person from central finglas or cabra end up with a d4 accent,

Because it's the same accent as Ringsend and Irishtown

Neon_Lights

Magnate wrote: »

Makes just as much sense as the OP...

I can just imagine you in an art gallery judging art in a linen cum tweed suit lollygagging with a pretentious glass of vino.... stick to that

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

But i dont know which is worse.

D4 or finglas ?

Either way... dublin me arse. Bad enough we have to commute to the kip but also listen to arseholes left right and center !

Joe Duffy..

It totes is, loike. # disease.

Neon_Lights

Neon_Lights wrote: »

How does a person from central finglas or cabra end up with a d4 accent, such pretence annoys me... I hear nowadays wagons all over touting this intollerable ball of pretence... even down in the rural places of cork and limerick there is a variant...does anybody agree ... loike?

So is a D4 accent okay if you're actually from D4?

Or is it necessary to adopt some other accent to avoid ridicule?

Neon_Lights

Candie wrote: »

So is a D4 accent okay if you're actually from D4?

Or is it necessary to adopt some other accent to avoid ridicule?

Not necessarily, but it should be kept in quarantine....

speaking about accents do you hear the hack of nadine coyle's accent now...

Trebor176

Soooo, roysh, the D4 Heads are a going breed, it would seem. I have no idea where this accent came from and how it has developed so much in the last few years. It can be, ohmygod, soooo headwrecking listening to some of these, the girls in particular, prattling on at, loike, 100 miles per hour? Every conversation is guaranteed to have "ohmygod" in it at some point, and the overuse of "loike," "basically," etc. "He was, loike," "she was, loike," and "we were, loike" are usually common features too.

Omackeral

I'd just like to say that my Dad is the highest paid partner in KPMG.

Ok I'm off to serve my ban now.

Andy-Pandy

I was raised and went to school in Ballsbridge and I know nobody who spoke with the famous d4 accent. It's not a d4 accent.

Neon_Lights

Andy-Pandy wrote: »

I was raised and went to school in Ballsbridge and I know nobody who spoke with the famous d4 accent. It's not a d4 accent.

hmm what would you define it as being then?

Andy-Pandy

Neon_Lights wrote: »

hmm what would you define it as being then?

An accent put on by teenagers, culchies and folk who are unhappy about their own accent. No grown up from d4 speaks like that.

Macavity.

Andy-Pandy wrote: »

An accent put on by teenagers, culchies and folk who are unhappy about their own accent. No grown up from d4 speaks like that.

No culchie speaks like that either, in fairness.

wingnut

Everything I know about the D4 accent I learned from Ross O'Carroll Kelly

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The worst part of the whole thing is the prevalence of these reoccurring boring threads about it on boards.ie, they just come back again over and over, then comes the post with "loike", "roysh" again, and on, and on.

How about something more original, like a drugs debate, the dole, or a rant about the bankers.

Shakespeare's Sister

I think the OP means that really forced accent that must be just exhausting to enunciate all the time. I know people from affluent parts of Dublin who have a "posh" accent but it's not that - their accent is natural, and not painful to listen to.
The one I'm thinking of is found all over Dublin, not just D4, and it's put on by people (women mostly) who move to Dublin from the country. I know one woman from Waterford who does it and I don't know how she keeps it up.

Andy-Pandy

Macavity. wrote: »

No culchie speaks like that either, in fairness.

That's my point, it'd not a real accent, it's put on non sence that for some reason has been labelled the d4 accent. I have a d4 accent, it's a typical neutral south Dublin accent.

Omackeral

It's a Spin 1038 accent. ''It's Becky here with all your pordy tunes''

zcorpian88

That accent seriously gets on my wick, the very reason why I hate taking public transport when visiting Dublin.

One time I was on a bus in Dublin heading to Foxrock and my girlfriend was with me, I was trying to talk to her and there was 4 of these young Triners arts students sitting up front talking obnoxiously and very loudly to the point where I couldn't hear myself talk to the girlfriend and they were spewing all sorts of shyte on how great their academics were and getting 550-600 points in the leaving and calling anyone who got less than 500 a retard. I was just sitting there asking the girlfriend "How much longer till we get to Foxrock? I may bash their heads together!" The girlfriend was like "I know, this feckin put on accent, deep breaths, deep breaths!"

Another day I had to get a connecting bus from Dublin to Mayo and there was two D4 lads sitting behind me and the conversation was about some house party one of them had "Barry I was soooo locked last noyt at the house party, sorry I broke that bottle of your Dad's single malt, tell you Dad I'm sorry" Followed by a reply of "Not a bother Oisin, Dad has three more in the cellar" followed by Oisins reply "Your Dad is such a ledgebag!" They were quite a bit out of touch. They got off the bus around Liffey Valley thank Christ, that day I forgot my earphones and I didn't want to hear that shyte for a 4 hour journey.


Can't believe it's more expensive to live there than anywhere else in the country, I'd want a couple of hundred euro off my rent if I had to listen to that drivel every day coming from people.

CatFromHue

I'm always amazed at how much focus there is on D4 and it's accent in Ireland.

Richard Hillman

zcorpian88 wrote: »

That accent seriously gets on my wick, the very reason why I hate taking public transport when visiting Dublin.

One time I was on a bus in Dublin heading to Foxrock and my girlfriend was with me, I was trying to talk to her and there was 4 of these young Triners arts students sitting up front talking obnoxiously and very loudly to the point where I couldn't hear myself talk to the girlfriend and they were spewing all sorts of shyte on how great their academics were and getting 550-600 points in the leaving and calling anyone who got less than 500 a retard. I was just sitting there asking the girlfriend "How much longer till we get to Foxrock? I may bash their heads together!" The girlfriend was like "I know, this feckin put on accent, deep breaths, deep breaths!"

Another day I had to get a connecting bus from Dublin to Mayo and there was two D4 lads sitting behind me and the conversation was about some house party one of them had "Barry I was soooo locked last noyt at the house party, sorry I broke that bottle of your Dad's single malt, tell you Dad I'm sorry" Followed by a reply of "Not a bother Oisin, Dad has three more in the cellar" followed by Oisins reply "Your Dad is such a ledgebag!" They were quite a bit out of touch. They got off the bus around Liffey Valley thank Christ, that day I forgot my earphones and I didn't want to hear that shyte for a 4 hour journey.


Can't believe it's more expensive to live there than anywhere else in the country, I'd want a couple of hundred euro off my rent if I had to listen to that drivel every day coming from people.

Any more made up stories?

Lapin

Neon_Lights wrote: »

How does a person from central finglas or cabra end up with a d4 accent... loike?

Proximity.

Finglas and Cabra are in the same county as D4.

I can't understand how young wans from the other 25 counties always end up with that accent.

fatknacker

It's quite a simple and infectious accent to put on if you want to sound exaggeratedly posh. I guess it just sticks to some people easily, mostly the young and impressionable.

LorMal

zcorpian88 wrote: »

That accent seriously gets on my wick, the very reason why I hate taking public transport when visiting Dublin.

One time I was on a bus in Dublin heading to Foxrock and my girlfriend was with me, I was trying to talk to her and there was 4 of these young Triners arts students sitting up front talking obnoxiously and very loudly to the point where I couldn't hear myself talk to the girlfriend and they were spewing all sorts of shyte on how great their academics were and getting 550-600 points in the leaving and calling anyone who got less than 500 a retard. I was just sitting there asking the girlfriend "How much longer till we get to Foxrock? I may bash their heads together!" The girlfriend was like "I know, this feckin put on accent, deep breaths, deep breaths!"

Another day I had to get a connecting bus from Dublin to Mayo and there was two D4 lads sitting behind me and the conversation was about some house party one of them had "Barry I was soooo locked last noyt at the house party, sorry I broke that bottle of your Dad's single malt, tell you Dad I'm sorry" Followed by a reply of "Not a bother Oisin, Dad has three more in the cellar" followed by Oisins reply "Your Dad is such a ledgebag!" They were quite a bit out of touch. They got off the bus around Liffey Valley thank Christ, that day I forgot my earphones and I didn't want to hear that shyte for a 4 hour journey.


Can't believe it's more expensive to live there than anywhere else in the country, I'd want a couple of hundred euro off my rent if I had to listen to that drivel every day coming from people.

Where are you from? What's your accent like?

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

I have a Drogheda 4 accent, and it's fcukin' gawjuss.

experiMental

This is banter on an epic level.

If your accent is in danger of being replaced by a D4 accent, then you gotta start a campaign. Or make a video featuring that accent, like the lad who made a video about a failed driving test.

bumper234

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

But i dont know which is worse.

D4 or finglas ?

Either way... dublin me arse. Bad enough we have to commute to the kip but also listen to arseholes left right and center !

No one is forcing you

LorMal

CatFromHue wrote: »

I'm always amazed at how much focus there is on D4 and it's accent in Ireland.

Its very parochial. There seems to be a lot of bitterness aimed at the imaginary 'Dem in D4'. I bet most of them don't even know where D4 is.
The derogatory use of 'D4' was coined by a journalist (I cant remember which one) who was rightly highlighting a cozy cartel between RTE, certain business insiders and certain politicians (for example the panel on Marion Finucaines show each Sunday).

Now it used by every Bogger who has a chip on his shoulder abut Dublin.

There is an irritating accent that has emerged in recent timess ('Dort' 'Coirke'..etc) - but it has not really emerged from D4 - I hear it a lot on Newstalk especially - (Tara Duggan!!) - and the AA Roadwatch crowd.

Santa Cruz

LorMal wrote: »

Its very parochial. There seems to be a lot of bitterness aimed at the imaginary 'Dem in D4'. I bet most of them don't even know where D4 is.
The derogatory use of 'D4' was coined by a journalist (I cant remember which one) who was rightly highlighting a cozy cartel between RTE, certain business insiders and certain politicians (for example the panel on Marion Finucaines show each Sunday).

Now it used by every Bogger who has a chip on his shoulder abut Dublin.

There is an irritating accent that has emerged in recent timess ('Dort' 'Coirke'..etc) - but it has not really emerged from D4 - I hear it a lot on Newstalk especially - (Tara Duggan!!) - and the AA Roadwatch crowd.

More stereotyped bull****. Get a life

LorMal

Santa Cruz wrote: »

More stereotyped bull****. Get a life

Brilliantly argued. Bogger?

Meangadh

I know it's labelled "D4" but we all know it just means that generic affected accent where T sounds like D and O sounds like Ew.

More prevalent in Dublin alright but affects various parts of the county. I first heard it when I went to the Gaeltacht as a teenager and these Dublin girls were in my house- I didn't have a clue what they were saying. And that's when they were talking in English.

It's a terrible accent, regardless of where you're from or where it started. Still though, I love that a country as small as Ireland has so many accents.

AlekSmart

Meangadh wrote: »

I know it's labelled "D4" but we all know it just means that generic affected accent where T sounds like D and O sounds like Ew.

More prevalent in Dublin alright but affects various parts of the county. I first heard it when I went to the Gaeltacht as a teenager and these Dublin girls were in my house- I didn't have a clue what they were saying. And that's when they were talking in English.

It's a terrible accent, regardless of where you're from or where it started. Still though, I love that a country as small as Ireland has so many accents.

Thank Aldi for the best example of Accentism currently available.......have a listen to the chizzler,then compare the response from "Mom".....Great Ad,but FFS was Imelda May not available that day or wha..???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85bsYoCs4os&index=1&list=PLci7Ghhw75gSb-JmiKjmrlXOJgTxrlpQs

bnt

A Dublin accent annoys you? Heavens forbid you ever visit some other world city, such as New York or Melbourne.

aidoh

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

But i dont know which is worse.

D4 or finglas ?

Either way... dublin me arse. Bad enough we have to commute to the kip but also listen to arseholes left right and center !

Why not just stay down the bog daubing yourself in ****e and fingering your favourite sheep so?

Ralf and Florian

aidoh wrote: »

Why not just stay down the bog daubing yourself in ****e and fingering your favourite sheep so?

Why do so many Dubs assume that all non Dubs live in a bog?Do you even know what a bog is?

steddyeddy

How do you know if a Southside girl has an orgasm?














She drops her accent

johnayo

AlekSmart wrote: »

Thank Aldi for the best example of Accentism currently available.......have a listen to the chizzler,then compare the response from "Mom".....Great Ad,but FFS was Imelda May not available that day or wha..???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85bsYoCs4os&index=1&list=PLci7Ghhw75gSb-JmiKjmrlXOJgTxrlpQs

That's brilliant. All the times I saw that add and took no notice of the mammy's accent.:pac:

Cee-Jay-Cee

mikemac1 wrote: »

Because it's the same accent as Ringsend and Irishtown

Shouldn't that be Oirishtown?

Sheeps

steddyeddy wrote: »

How do you know if a Southside girl has an orgasm?














She drops her accent

idgi

Berserker

I used to live in D4, Ballsbridge to be exact and I never came across anyone with this accent.

SpaceTime

The "D4" accent is actually mostly heard in certain schools and in Søüth Cøunty Dûblin.

The accent in D4 itself is actually very nice. Old style clear and not pretentious. Accent in parts of D4 would be closer to full on City Centre too.

The old South Co Dublin accent is more like Maeve Binchy too - quite warm and pleasant sounding.

What we're calling D4 is some kind of an abomination that was made up by the nouveau riche.

SEPT 23 1989

The hooray henry's living in Irishtown and Ringsend are the worst offenders

AnonoBoy

D4?

You've sunk my battleship!

:mad:

Lyaiera

nm wrote: »

How about something more original, like a drugs debate, the dole, or a rant about the bankers.

I think there was a really cool thread about accents a few days ago.

Dayum

I wish all people from Finglas put on a D4 accent.

Certainly more welcoming than "HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

Arbiter of Good Taste

AlekSmart wrote: »

Thank Aldi for the best example of Accentism currently available.......have a listen to the chizzler,then compare the response from "Mom".....Great Ad,but FFS was Imelda May not available that day or wha..???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85bsYoCs4os&index=1&list=PLci7Ghhw75gSb-JmiKjmrlXOJgTxrlpQs

I love that ad! Unfortunately for my hubby, every time it comes on he has to listen to me rant about how the f**k does a child with that accent have a mother with that accent.

eisenberg1

Neon_Lights wrote: »

Not necessarily, but it should be kept in quarantine....

speaking about accents do you hear the hack of nadine coyle's accent now...

I heard her on TV the other night, if I understood her correctly, she said everyone thinks she is American!! you would want to be from Mars to think she had an American accent.:D

dd972

Neon_Lights wrote: »

How does a person from central finglas or cabra end up with a d4 accent, such pretence annoys me... I hear nowadays wagons all over touting this intollerable ball of pretence... even down in the rural places of cork and limerick there is a variant...does anybody agree ... loike?

Maybe it's subconsciously seen as carrying more sophistication and gravitas, same thing happens in England where people from ''the provinces'' who move to the South East or London after Uni nullify any strong regional accents or idioms and adopt a bland sounding RP accent that's deemed to be a marker of middle classness.

A bigger joke though are people who double-barrell their surnames for similar reasons.