Do you ever try to hide your accent

Specialun

Ive a cork accent and tbh im not a fan of it. Lately i cringe when i hear " alright boi" or "alright laddd"

I try to avoid the usual cork slang and lately in interviews i find myself speaking more slowely as to mask the city/cork slang

Do you have an accent...do you like it

Cork lol I know

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Need a translator for your post. Who let Cork people on the internet.

Menas

I have one of those neutral accents. People know I am not a dub, but cant tell what part of the country I am from.
I speak a lot slower at work though as I deal with lots of foreign types.

fizzypish

I like my accent. Come from near the tipp cork border so a fine Torc/Cip accent. Gets stronger the closer I am to home. The poor Dutch people that have to listen to me have no notion what I'm saying half the time. I've had to develop a pan European accent.

I have a fairly recognisable accent and there's little point in trying to hide it as it's part of my identity. The sort of thing you're referring to in the OP is more local phraseology than accent. There's nothing wrong with regional accents, it'd be boring if we all sounded the same. Using words that people outside your area don't understand is a different thing.

smash

Specialun wrote: »

Ive a cork accent

my condolences

Not at all, though people have an incredibly hard time placing my accent.

Generic Dreadhead

Specialun wrote: »

Ive a cork accent and tbh im not a fan of it. Lately i cringe when i hear " alright boi" or "alright laddd"

I try to avoid the usual cork slang and lately in interviews i find myself speaking more slowely as to mask the city/cork slang

Do you have an accent...do you like it

Cork lol I know

Ah, another person from Cork trying to sound like they are from D4 or California is it?

Yeah, I've had quite enough of your type. :P

You can be from Cork and have a Cork accent that isn't a total scumbag accent you know?

In fact many people from abroad like our accent as it's quite musical apparently.

I'm not ashamed of where I am from and I would think any interviewer who bases a job interview off someones accents is probably hiring for a company I don't want to work for.

Cormac...

Cormac... wrote: »

Ah, another person from Cork trying to sound like they are from D4 or California is it?

Yeah, I've had quite enough of your type. You can be from Cork and have a Cork accent that isn't a total scumbag accent you know.

In fact many people from abroad like our accent as it's quite musical apparently.

I'm not ashamed of where I am from and I would think any interviewer who bases a job interview off someones accents is probably hiring for a company I don't want to work for.

Moderating your accent to accommodate people who might not be familiar with it, is not the same as being ashamed of it.

Generic Dreadhead

Candie wrote: »

Moderating your accent to accommodate people who might not be familiar with it, is not the same as being ashamed of it.

Fair point, though I wasn't trying to imply that the OP was, even though it may have read like that. It was just an aside

ArnoldJRimmer

I moved to America a few years ago. After a couple of months of vacant stares, and in some cases straight out refusals to try and understand what I was saying, I adapted a little.

Now everyone takes the p!ss out of me when I go home for having a half Donegal/ half American accent

MarkAnthony

Absoluetly, grew up in Oxford that has a very odd working class accent anyway but I inherited my fathers West Country twangs think:

It was a necessity at secondary school to lose that if I ever wanted to lose my virginity. Now my family thinks I pretend to be posh and my friends back home, due to my 15 years here and pronunciation of the number 'tree' (sic), think I've an Irish accent.

whiskeyman

Only when I park it in the garage...









/car joke

The Backwards Man

Aye shurley haigh

Birneybau

Ow Gawd no.

biko

Thankfully I always had a flat accent. In my hometown the accent is atrocious, I'm sooo happy I never picked it up.

Boskowski

I've got a German Irish hybrid accent people keep telling me and it's something I can't hear myself and I have no control over. I don't realise it at all myself when I'm talking, but when I hear myself on voicemail or so it sounds very much like a German accent to me. More so than I would like but again it's not something I have any control over. :pac:

kfallon

I get slagged when I go home for having a 'big Dublin accent'.....yeah I've only been living up here for 14 years :rolleyes:

BeerWolf

I sound American...

smash

BeerWolf wrote: »

I sound American...

Are you American?

rainbow kirby

I have a noticeable Dublin accent, I tend to flatten it out when I'm ordering takeaways, the last time I didn't do that I went to collect it and they had taken my name down as "Sandra" when my name sounds absolutely nothing like that.

Magico Gonzalez

Trying to speak Spanish all day with a belfast accent.

Problematic.

Specialun

Cormac... wrote: »

Ah, another person from Cork trying to sound like they are from D4 or California is it?

Yeah, I've had quite enough of your type. You can be from Cork and have a Cork accent that isn't a total scumbag accent you know.

In fact many people from abroad like our accent as it's quite musical apparently.

I'm not ashamed of where I am from and I would think any interviewer who bases a job interview off someones accents is probably hiring for a company I don't want to work for.

You go girl "aint no man going to change me baby" ***clicks fingers***

The Backwards Man

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

Trying to speak Spanish all day with a belfast accent.

Problematic.

Pequeños bollos

onlyrocknroll

Cormac... wrote: »

Ah, another person from Cork trying to sound like they are from D4 or California is it?
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Candie wrote: »

Moderating your accent to accommodate people who might not be familiar with it, is not the same as being ashamed of it.

Cormac... wrote: »

Fair point, though I wasn't trying to imply that the OP was, even though it may have read like that. It was just an aside

It seems to me that was exactly what you were trying to do.

I dampen my Cork accent quite often because I teach English to non-native speakers so it's quite important to be understood. I believe Irish people are particular bad at doing this for some reason.

"Alroight boi hoaz da forum?"

"Sorry... my English is not so good"

"I SAID ALROIIIIGHT BOOOOIII, HOIZZ DA FORUM? :mad:

Turtyturd

Ffs all the good Cork jokes are gone.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

My accent is all over the place anyways. I don't do it consciously but I've noticed in public speaking/important phonecalls type situations I do modify it. I was giving a few lectures recently, chatting away to the tutor in my usual Donegalway-via-Cork brogue beforehand and then into some weird kind of flat, overpronounced I dunno what when I started. Not the best thing to start being conscious of right at the start of a talk. I was like Ross in that episode of friends where he's trying to phase out his British accent.

Generic Dreadhead

onlyrocknroll wrote: »

It seems to me that was exactly what you were trying to do.

Calm the Multi-quote body there, it was a bit tongue in cheek as it's quite the typical thing for people who say, go to UCC.

Next time I will include the required or :rolleyes:

OldMrBrennan83

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Stormington

I toned down my Cork accent after I got married: herself wasn't fond of watching ladies sliding off their chairs when I spoke to them.

I've moved around the country a few times and my accent has probably been affected by that naturally and I deal with foreigners on a regular basis so have learned to speak more slowly to avoid misunderstandings. It hasn't been too badly damaged though: Cork people know I am from Cork and others ask where I am from. I'm happy with that.

Generic Dreadhead

It was a Cork Accent thread all along people :eek:
GTFO while you can, this is their way of rounding us all up in one place for a mass genocide!!!!

Junkyard Tom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEvHCPn5wP4

rob316

Im from Cork city and my accent can be pretty strong at times. I do use my telephone voice at work though because I deal with people all over UK/Ireland who might find my accent a small bit hard to understand.

Too many people in Cork think because you have a thick inner city accent your a scumbag but I was raised very well.

The only thing that annoys me is teenage girls and there D4/Californian airhead sounding accents. Absolutely sickening.

mark_jmc

Stormington wrote: »

I toned down my Cork accent after I got married: herself wasn't fond of watching ladies sliding off their chairs when I spoke to them.

I've moved around the country a few times and my accent has probably been affected by that naturally and I deal with foreigners on a regular basis so have learned to speak more slowly to avoid misunderstandings. It hasn't been too badly damaged though: Cork people know I am from Cork and others ask where I am from. I'm happy with that.

rohypnol can have that effect alright........

TheBeardedLady

Not my accent, no and in fact, I think it's gotten stronger since moving out of Ireland 10 years ago. I teach English, so I have to be careful of using slang, local idioms etc. and I have to make an effort to strengthen my t as in, "greatttt" as opposed to "grash" and to speak clearly and slowly but otherwise, I don't adjust it or try to hide it ever.

Zamboni

I have a solid dublin accent. It will probably sound like Ronnie Drew when I'm older.
I neutralise it purposely sometimes in work scenarios, interviews etc because people react negatively to it.
I can change my accent but I can't change their ignorance.

LizT

Thankfully I have a fairly neutral accent, although I do change it if I'm speaking to someone with poor English, which would be often enough.

entropi

I don't try to hide the accent I have, no. I've only heard myself speak on video a few times and its not a strong accent anyway so thats grand.

anncoates

If this thread is an indicative sample, then nobody in Ireland actually has an accent.

Or all the people from places like Louth and Limerick are lying

fryup

yep, back in the 80s during a family holiday in england....did my best to hide my oirish accent felt very-self conscience about it esp as the IRA were the blowing the crap out of everyone at the time

whatismyname

No point, as I couldn't if I tried. I am not aware of my accent, it's just how I talk, but no longer living in Ireland, people here where I am find it brilliant.

Especially when they ask me to say dirty tree and a turd.

Very proud of my 'twang'

Katgurl

No way, my accent is beautiful.

Kerry accent. My friends who have the misfortune to be from places that are not Kerry like it.

Mozzeltoff

I have an awfully strange accent . I am from North Tipperary originally, which is mostly a flat(ish) accent. However I have being living in Kerry for the last few years and I have obviously picked up a "hint" of the accent :pac:

Down here in Kerry people can't seem to place where I am from. Some think I am from Laois, Limerick or Waterford. I think only one person ever got Tipperary :pac: But when I am up home my family and some of my old friends rip the piss out of me for having a "PUUURRREEE KERRRRRYYY accent". The way they bang on about it, you'd swear I was hiding out in the hills of Kilgarvin with the Healy Raes :rolleyes:

castletownman

Only when I'm drinking heino with the goys watching the rugby in Kiely's.

For pure blending in on the bandwagon purposes

OneArt

I try my best to hide it when I speak German. Starting to manage it a lot of the time after three f*cking years. Grew up in different English-speaking countries though, so my accent's all over the place anyway.

ceadaoin.

I live abroad and have to make a conscious effort not to use irish phrases and to speak a bit slower sometimes, especially on the phone. Otherwise they don't understand me! I don't even have that strong an accent, it's fairly neutral dublin.

Aongus Von Bismarck

According to one of my colleagues I speak German like a 'farmer from the south of Austria'. Even though I'm fluent; I'm aware that I do have a tendency to roll my soft H when speaking. I'm still well able to discuss complex financial instruments with native German speakers. Being able to break into English at the drop-of-a-hat is a compelling selling point if we need to bring our American or British colleagues into a conference call. My German is better than the English of the vast majority of my colleagues!

Aidric

ceadaoin. wrote: »

I live abroad and have to make a conscious effort not to use irish phrases and to speak a bit slower sometimes, especially on the phone. Otherwise they don't understand me! I don't even have that strong an accent, it's fairly neutral dublin.

Likewise, I've spent 5 years living abroad at this stage and you naturally tend to slow down your speech in an effort to be understood. I had a neutral accent to begin with so it wasn't that hard for foreigners to understand me. The pace is the key, we tend to speak very quickly amongst our own.

Conversely we had a guy join the company with a strong inner city Dublin accent. He made no effort to alter his speech and nobody had a clue what he was saying. He lasted 4 months.

Crumpets

I've a flat, boggery midlands accent but I currently live in Germany and people seem to find it cute

Mister Vain

Yeah I change it a bit when talking to the fordiners in work. Or if I'm heading up to the big Shmoke I might posh it up a bit. Usually I'm not even aware I'm doing it.