fake american accents on irish radio!!!!

LegacyUser

this really fúcking anoys me.

main offendors are, champion sport ads. it's nike, not nikey!! you fúcking twat.

irish radio is riddled with these poxy fake accents, there's also fake english accents, not as common as the american ones.

some dj's also suffer from this condition, tony fenton would be a prime example.

there was one this morning on 2fm, advertising a diana ross concert, some asshole chick with a fake american accent. obviously an attemt to make the ad cooler. nob heads.

Mossy Monk

paperclip wrote:

it's nike, not nikey!! you fúcking twat.

actually i heard the head honcho of nike pronounce it as nikey

LegacyUser

it's nikey if you're an american.

nike if you're from ireland.

Mossy Monk wrote:

actually i heard the head honcho of nike pronounce it as nikey

monkeyfudge

I've always thought it was pronounced Nikey... not that I'd ever wear the things though...

But I do hate the mid-atlantic DJ accents. We don't allow them on the radio station that I work with.

EDIT: It should be pronounced "Nee-keh" Named after a Greek Goddess.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_%28mythology%29

seamus

paperclip wrote:

it's nikey if you're an american.

nike if you're from ireland.

No, it's named after the Greek Goddess of Victory, Nike. Pronounced Nigh-Key everywhere in the world except Ireland, and possibly Greece.

GeorgeBailey

I also hate those fake american accents. They're very prevalent on the likes of knacker8 fm and fm10knacker and tv3

Kingsize

Its All About The Target Markets - Most Of These Radio Ads Seem
To Be Aimed At People Who Think "friends" Is Real Life Or Chicks Who Long To Be Like The Depraved Harridans In Sex & The City

cormie

I think it is actually pronounced Nikey alright, so were wrong and the radio is right

A lot of DJs seem to suffer from it in Clubs and Stuff too, "Hmmmmmmmeyed just like to remind everyone last drinks at the bar"

There is an actual voice DJs tend to put on, a DJ even said it to me before :rolleyes:

seamus

Moved from AH

Rew

Speaking of stupid fake american accents....

http://www.thethrills.com/

LegacyUser

we may be wrong, that's beside the point, it's pronounced nike in ireland.

yes, club dj's are also affected. muppets.

it just anoyes me that they associate putting this voice on as being cool, or trendy.

cormie wrote:

I think it is actually pronounced Nikey alright, so were wrong and the radio is right

A lot of DJs seem to suffer from it in Clubs and Stuff too, "Hmmmmmmmeyed just like to remind everyone last drinks at the bar"

There is an actual voice DJs tend to put on, a DJ even said it to me before :rolleyes:

Kingsize

I love the way the nightclub djs remind you of where you are & what night it is too!!

"saturday noite!!!(ah!!)-"

LegacyUser

I FÚCKING HATE THE THRILLS

COMPLETE TOSSERS

Rew wrote:

Speaking of stupid fake american accents....

http://www.thethrills.com/

por

What I hate are the fake British\middle class\boarding school accents you hear out of business executives of ads, taking about 'sales figures' etc.
Why don't they talk like reall Irish business men like Pat McDonough or Michael O' Leary

Rew

paperclip wrote:

I FÚCKING HATE THE THRILLS

COMPLETE TOSSERS

Totally agreed... Have you heard the gift grub piss take on them?

http://www.radioireland.ie/audio/giftthri.wma

Pure genius!

LegacyUser

ye, very good.

"what's your name"

"pork"

ha ha, tossers

Rew wrote:

Totally agreed... Have you heard the gift grub piss take on them?

http://www.radioireland.ie/audio/giftthri.wma

Pure genius!

edson

por wrote:

Why don't they talk like reall Irish business men like Pat McDonough or Michael O' Leary

yeah Michael O'Leary talks the talk alright, saw in the UCH in UL the other day

irlirishkev

Spin FM are also guilty of the pseudo-american accents.. Many a lunchtime have I sat in the canteen in work wanting to destroy the radio because of one of these morons' constant yapping.. No music, just fake american banter..

fukkin' idiots..

deedee lepoopoo

What about the annoying youngone on 98fm with the AUSTRAILIAN accents. There is nothing more grating............

NewFrockTuesday

Paperclip's on a rampage!!! let the world know your top 5 hates pc!!!!

Maynooth

I hate Tony Fenton.

Just thought I'd add that in there.

JackKelly

its nike

Nightwish

rick o shea is a major culprit.

3DES

Who the hell pronouces Nike like "bike"? Is this some new disease infecting young people that has passed me by?

LegacyUser

dont get me started

die thrills, die!!!!

purdee wrote:

Paperclip's on a rampage!!! let the world know your top 5 hates pc!!!!

LegacyUser

you're taking the piss, ye?

3DES wrote:

Who the hell pronouces Nike like "bike"? Is this some new disease infecting young people that has passed me by?

Mossy Monk

its ok, it's how it's pronounced in Ireland (whoever said that can you please explain what you mean by it)

daveirl

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sceptre

paperclip wrote:

we may be wrong, that's beside the point, it's pronounced nike in ireland.

I've never heard a single person in Ireland pronounce Nike to rhyme with bike (thanks 3DES). Even in those Lifestyle Sports adverts during Wimbledon in the early-mid 80s. Any other trademarked brand names that you and your mates like to pronounce in your own way?

Even my mother used to pronounce it "Neekay" like those Greeks do (bit particular with the intonation was my dear departed maw).

seabee

Rew wrote:

Speaking of stupid fake american accents....

http://www.thethrills.com/

I heard conor deasy (Lead singer) talking on the tv the other day. Could someone buy that lad some Vicks throath drops or Benilyn!!

Rew

And tell him he grew up in Dublin not California...

magpie

All Irish Radio = Smashey and Nicey.

BIteen

How can u HATE the Thrills you gotta have respect for them dublin born band broke the U.S.A before they even tried breaking euope now thats pretty impressive and in fact Conor Deasy(lead singer) really has a hiddin Dub accent i met him in town today as they are playing a live gig in a few days,nice guy.

Giblet

Yes it's pronounced Nik-ee, saying it's pronounced nike as in bike in Ireland just shows how ignorant you are. Refusing to accept that, and continue to use the wrong pronunciation, just shows your stupidity.

Moving this clusterfúck of a thread to the cuckoos nest.

NotMe

I pronounce it kee-ni. No one ever knows what I'm talking about.

Mac daddy

i call them ****e nike

Sparky

Rew wrote:

Totally agreed... Have you heard the gift grub piss take on them?

http://www.radioireland.ie/audio/giftthri.wma

Pure genius!

Classic LMAO

Btw i call nike. nikey

simu

Nikey all the way - no one's called it nike like bike since the 80s before coolness came to Ireland.

Such ownage!

hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

fowl!

Chad ghostal

surely this is prime recycle bin matierial..>//

meh..

Giblet

I usually reserve crazy rantings for The Cuckoos Nest

NotMe

Oy just call moy fuutware...... wellingtons.

Chad ghostal

NotMe wrote:

Oy just call moy fuutware...... wellingtons.

Do you "keep" sheeP?

deisedolly

And we're suppose to pronounce adidas like adeeedas, haha some hope of that!

Stephen

All of this is Tony Fenton's fault.

Sam Kade

I couldn't give a ****e if it's nike or nikey, you don't have to listen to the radio to hear these fake accent's you can hear people on the street talking like that even 40 year old's with their newly cultivated accent's. What about annoying word's like the op used twat is he a brit? other stupid word's are muppet which is really annoying, quirky, basically, soooo.

OFDM

Sam Kade wrote:

I couldn't give a ****e if it's nike or nikey, you don't have to listen to the radio to hear these fake accent's you can hear people on the street talking like that even 40 year old's with their newly cultivated accent's. What about annoying word's like the op used twat is he a brit? other stupid word's are muppet which is really annoying, quirky, basically, soooo.

Why are you replying to a two year old thread?

Matt Holck

Dudes
I totally like see the point UR making
like seriously
who knew nike was named after some greek fosil
I understand why
yor screaming like banshee t'bout it
I t'wouldn't be to 'appy if they'd be broadcasting fake Irish accents

mike65

Why the f<>ck are Irish ad agencies using fakey wakey Yankee accents to sell Spanish-badged German cars to Poles in Ireland?

Thats what I wanna know.

Mike.

Sam Kade

OFDM wrote:

Why are you replying to a two year old thread?

What's the big deal with digging up old thread's? if you are intrested in a certain topic why start a new thread with the same topic which is the norm with ask about money website. I suppose I will be barred from accent threads now.

Matt Holck

is there a movie about
lovers writing letters across different time

course the whole cause and effect issue

perhaps if an old thread is pulled the originator could be e-mailed

saragata

Sorry to bring you down off the high horse of authority re American English, but over here, it's definitely a 2-syllable word.