Your accent

suicide_circus

I speak like an RTE newsreader

Ghost Buster

suicide_circus wrote: »

I speak like an RTE newsreader

Incorrectly.

suicide_circus

Ghost Buster wrote: »

Incorrectly.

An accent can neither be correct nor incorrect

Ghost Buster

suicide_circus wrote: »

An accent can neither be correct nor incorrect

An accent isnt an accent if its job related. Take Sinead Hussey who reports for ORE TEE EEEEE. She certainly didnt speak like that till she left Longford at the last ROIND ABOIT and hit Donnybrook!

chosen1

Ghost Buster wrote: »

An accent isnt an accent if its job related. Take Sinead Hussey who reports for ORE TEE EEEEE. She certainly didnt speak like that till she left Longford at the last ROIND ABOIT and hit Donnybrook!

Or doesn't speak like that in real life either now. Think it's called code shifting when you switch accents depending on your setting. I can certainly speak clearer anyway if I need to be understood outside of Longford.

HalloweenJack

Have a fairly strong middle-of-the-road Dublin accent despite being from Bray.

Haven't lived in Ireland for close to four years and it's definitely got softer but the second I'm home or talking to another Irish person it comes out again full whack.

Testament1

HardenendMan wrote: »

The worst accent (English speaking) by far is the South African accent. Mix of Scottish and Aussie. They all sound like absolute cnuts.

I love the South African accent! I find it very amusing to listen to, same with the Kiwi accent.

From Clare myself, lived there most of my life and I always thought we had a pretty neutral accent that didn't sound much different to a lot of west Ireland. Running into other Irish abroad seems to prove me wrong though. Several times I've had people from all over Ireland ask me what part of Clare I'm from after only talking to me for a couple of minutes.

Having lived in San Francisco, Australia and New Zealand I've regularly been told that I have a strong Irish accent but that it's very enjoyable to listen to. Strangely though when living abroad if I'm telling a story that involves something one of the locals said to me I find myself mimicking their accent without even thinking about it.

I'm a big massive culchie from Leitrim.

Mrmoe

I think I have a neutral accent until I hear my recorded voice

Crumpets

Flat Offaly accent myself I live in Germany now and they all find my accent feckin' hilarious

fleet_admiral

Nim wrote: »

I don't even know what accent I have tbh. I do come out with some really North Dublin phrases every now and again but I don't think I speak in a North Dublin accent all the time.

Its funny. I hear the north Dublin accent all over the southside on a daily basis

Balmed Out

Irish people think I have a news reader type of accent but foreigners think I have the most leprechaun like voice ever.

rainbow kirby

I have a Dublin accent, flattening over time the longer I spend outside of Ireland.

Eugene Norman

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Its funny. I hear the north Dublin accent all over the southside on a daily basis

We're allowed to cross the river. Just 4 stops though on the dart. No crossing the canal.

Shrap

Eugene Norman wrote: »

We're allowed to cross the river. Just 4 stops though on the dart. No crossing the canal.

Ha ha, them's the notions that I grew up surrounded by alright! My north-side grandparents threw an absolute fit that my Dad had taken up with and married and English woman and moved to the south-side! Accents in Ireland, and especially Dublin I think, are of more cultural importance than in other countries. They can cause instant assumptions to be made as to your beliefs, your politics, your culture. In my experience, being half north-side/half English in 70's Dublin was nearly as foreign to most Irish people as if I was a newly arrived Nigerian or Polish immigrant to the country these days, and was just as divisive. We're a funny lot, us Irish.

Peregrine

Eugene Norman wrote: »

We're allowed to cross the river. Just 4 stops though on the dart. No crossing the canal.

Are we not allowed as far as the Aviva these days, no?

fleet_admiral

Eugene Norman wrote: »

We're allowed to cross the river. Just 4 stops though on the dart. No crossing the canal.

Yeah stay away from the rough folk in Rathmines and Mount Pleasant in Ranelagh

Eugene Norman

Nim wrote: »

Are we not allowed as far as the Aviva these days, no?

Yes! Landsdowne road is the 4th southside stop isn't it?

With a southside mot you can go further. I once went to Dalkey on that basis. But eventually was asked to leave. They were polite enough about it, to be fair and I got a police escort home.

fleet_admiral

Eugene Norman wrote: »

Yes! Landsdowne road is the 4th southside stop isn't it?

With a southside mot you can go further. I once went to Dalkey on that basis. But eventually was asked to leave. They were polite enough about it, to be fair and I got a police escort home.

Always the way;)

bodice ripper

Mid-Atlantic Drawl right here.

jacksie66

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aaronjumper

Bogwarrior Limerick accent. Gotten a bit weaker since I moved into Limerick, comes back if I have a few drinks. As long as I don't get the very nasal "Howya bud" accent I'll be fine.

TheBeardedLady

chosen1 wrote: »

Or doesn't speak like that in real life either now. Think it's called code shifting when you switch accents depending on your setting. I can certainly speak clearer anyway if I need to be understood outside of Longford.

Code switching. Never heard of it. I'm studying Psycholinguistics right now in university and this fits in well with it, so going to read about this now. REALLY fascinating area of psychology, it is.

Nim

Nim wrote: »

Are we not allowed as far as the Aviva these days, no?

With the correct visa, of course you can.

Joya

After 14 years in Ireland even I caught the Irish accent
but the worst thing that has happening to me atm is that I have started unwittingly to speak my native language with the accent of English.....

5rtytry56

what gugleguy found when he does'nt waffle + babble.

aaronjumper

I met a guy once that had moved to Cork from Boston, I think it was, when he was in his early twenties. At fifty years of age he had developed an accent that was half Boston half Cork. Was interesting to listen to him speak, to say the least.

Sorry for going off topic, all this talk of accents brought back the memory.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Joya wrote: »

After 14 years in Ireland even I caught the Irish accent
but the worst thing that has happening to me atm is that I have started unwittingly to speak my native language with the accent of English.....

You don't write with an Irish accent.
By jingo you write with a rather posh accent.

Vandango

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I have a middle of the road Dublin accent which sounds posh to the poor and poor to the rich

I know your pain.

Herb Powell

strobe wrote: »

Ireland is just fvcking weird. It is isn't it. I was in Australia before talking to a couple of German girls in a pub with a guy that was from Celbridge in Kildare. They asked him where he was from, he said Ireland. Then they asked me where I was from, said "yeah, Ireland too". Then they asked, how come we speak so different then. Couldn't believe it when I said we would have grown up about 15 miles apart. What's that sh1t about? I think maybe the UK is the same? Just guessing though. But outside of that, are there other countries where a ten minute drive means people have noticeably different accents? Down to the whole history of small tribes or something? Not a clue. Is it the same in other countries? Is it not? Why is it like that here? And many other questions.

Germans should be well used to it, the variety of accents and even dialects in Germany is huge.

Personally I have a soft Cork accent, can get stronger or less pronounced depending on company/setting etc. Some northern sounds occasionally slip out, that's what having family from there will do to ya though.