That new accent

gregos

What do you think of the rind-a-bite thing?

TerrorFirmer

jcoote

thats a northern irish accent is it??? or norn iron ...sexy as hell when a girl with a really soft voice owns it

Femelade

what the hell are ye on about?
a new accent?
when? where? how?
why wasnt i told?

gregos

I'm talking about the Roadwatch-type accent that has become popular among teenagers all over the country in the last few years.

TerrorFirmer

eh...what?

4Xcut

jcoote wrote:

thats a northern irish accent is it??? or norn iron ...sexy as hell when a girl with a really soft voice owns it

Too fcukin' right it is. Nadine from Girls Allowed.

Femelade

still dont get it....

Sparky

theres a girl in my bank, who has the sexiest northern accent

it so seducing,

and then theres the girl in the house ill be working in on thursday, i fall for the accent.

its sexy as ever

Gross Halfwit

It is an incredibly sexy accent but I still prefer a soft Scottish accent.

Sparky

rind-a-bite= round about, get it!!

Femelade

oh yeah i get the rind-a bite thing now, but NEW accent?
hasnt it always been around? well in the north anyway?

Nightwish

i think the OP is talking about the D4 accent, which has been discussed to death already.......................*bored*...............................

Sparky

Nightwish wrote:

i think the OP is talking about the D4 accent, which has been discussed to death already.......................*bored*...............................

yes its has being taking up storage space here for ages, roite

i thought D4 was just classed as a posh accent, end of story!

DoctorEdgeWild

It'll never be end of story - There's always a thread about it popping up!

The Nordie accent is sexy as Hell though. Gets me every time. D4 accent doesn't do anything for me. Roish.

Wertz

For pity's sake the OP isn't on about a norn iron accent at all...he's on about Dort speak....it's been about for f*cking years...hell my cousins from Wicklow had them back in the early 90's.

It does my scone in...it's one thing if you're from D4 or even Dublin city in general but when you're from f*ckin' ballygobackwards... :rolleyes:

Mid Atlantic accent? I wish some of htem were in the middle of the Atlantic

Sparky

ballygobackwards

fcking class, got me laughing

weemcd

sounds nordie to me (me being from the north)

what do the lay-dize thing of a nordie accent on a fella?

PlasseyMinstrel

The nordie accent on a girl is defintely very sexy.
As are Scottish, South African, Australian.
American accents have a huge variance (too many people class them all together as one annoying squeaky one of unspecified origin) but most of the New England ones, such as Massachussetts, New Hampshire and Conneticut can be very sexy.

D4 does nothing for me, very off-putting.
None of the city accents do anything for me - thick Dub accents, Cork Norries, Limerick Wahs, etc.
Don't like most English accents, but there are some exceptions.
The jury's out on Welsh, but I'm thinking "yes".

gregos

Nightwish wrote:

i think the OP is talking about the D4 accent, which has been discussed to death already.......................*bored*...............................

You think wrong. The accent is not D4, or Dort. It's an entirely different-sounding accent. I think of it as the BT make-up demonstrator accent.

Wertz

gregos wrote:

You think wrong. The accent is not D4, or Dort. It's an entirely different-sounding accent. I think of it as the BT make-up demonstrator accent.

Well the only place you can construe "rindabite" from roundabout is on AA roadwatch updates on the radio...I would class that accent as Dort or Mid-atlantic and it's been about a lot longer than a few years.
Maybe it's become hybridised with something else? If so, the perpetrators watching too much Friends or Sex in the city has a lot to do with it I'd bet...

gregos

Indeed. Perhaps it has been around longer, but I haven't noticed it creeping into every corner of the country until recently. I personally find it rather jarring, just to give you a couple of examples, to hear people referring to Cork as Kwerk, and saying alavan when they mean eleven. I confess I do not know how this set of pronunciations has evolved, but I think it has something to do with a thing called hypercorrection, if I recall the term correctly.

Sparky

if i heard.......ah feck it

OFDM

Would this accent be the same as the one the "Whistler" character from Naked Camera has?

And what is it with newsreaders pronouncing "Dail" as "Doyle" insteal of "Dawl" and "Gardai" as "Gordy" instead of "Gar-dee"

gregos

OFDM wrote:

Would this accent be the same as the one the "Whistler" character from Naked Camera has?

Haven't seen it yet. Must check it out.

If anything, Dail ought to be pronounced Daw-ill, but we won't go there.

is_that_so

OFDM wrote:

And what is it with newsreaders pronouncing "Dail" as "Doyle" insteal of "Dawl" and "Gardai" as "Gordy" instead of "Gar-dee"

Think the newsreaders get it right but in answer to your question yes that's the accent. It has been around for some time and can be found as far afield as Galway and Ennis. :eek: DORT goes a long way. Awful accent.

Wertz

gregos wrote:

Indeed. Perhaps it has been around longer, but I haven't noticed it creeping into every corner of the country until recently. I personally find it rather jarring, just to give you a couple of examples, to hear people referring to Cork as Kwerk, and saying alavan when they mean eleven. I confess I do not know how this set of pronunciations has evolved, but I think it has something to do with a thing called hypercorrection, if I recall the term correctly.

Oh aye, it's the length and breadth of the country at this stage, usually among middle and upper class teens that I've noticed...it's the Americanisation of the middle class Irish accent, combined with a lot of migration within the country.
The part of the accent that really gets on my wick is the intonation at the end of every sentence, as if it were a question, rising in tone from the middle of the sentence onwards....notice it a lot with brits lately too.
Far too much mainstream US culture bending the ears of our children from a very early age is the only rational explanation I can come up with...
The real tragedy here is that we're loosing so many unique colloquial accents from round the nation...give it another generation or two and they'll be extinct with the possible exception of the dub accent...

gregos

Yeah. I think what's happening to local accents is like what texting has done to spelling.

Nidge

Wertz wrote:

Oh aye, it's the length and breadth of the country at this stage, usually among middle and upper class teens that I've noticed...it's the Americanisation of the middle class Irish accent, combined with a lot of migration within the country.
The part of the accent that really gets on my wick is the intonation at the end of every sentence, as if it were a question, rising in tone from the middle of the sentence onwards....notice it a lot with brits lately too.
Far too much mainstream US culture bending the ears of our children from a very early age is the only rational explanation I can come up with...
The real tragedy here is that we're loosing so many unique colloquial accents from round the nation...give it another generation or two and they'll be extinct with the possible exception of the dub accent...

No that questioning tone at the end of sentences that aren't questions is an Australian thing, in a way it might not be a question rather a rise in pitch of the speakers voice. For example. "I went to the supermarket?/(!) Then i bought some apples?/(!)" Very bloody annoying and nonsensical. Worst of all it's not irish.

OFDM

gregos wrote:

If anything, Dail ought to be pronounced Daw-ill

True.

is_that_so wrote:

Think the newsreaders get it right

They don't, "á" should be a long "a" sound not an "o" sound.

OFDM

Wertz wrote:

The part of the accent that really gets on my wick is the intonation at the end of every sentence, as if it were a question, rising in tone from the middle of the sentence onwards....notice it a lot with brits lately too.

Don't get me started on that, a friend of mine started doing that with a Monaghan accent after living in the US for a while.

Him: "Hey, I'm just going to go to the toilet?"
Me: "What you're not sure?"
Him: "What dude?"
Me: "Argh."

is_that_so

OFDM wrote:

True.


They don't, "á" should be a long "a" sound not an "o" sound.

RTE in general do, although I would exclude the RTE2 lot from that . But agree a lot of the others don't. Some of them on the radio can hardly speak English.

Wertz

Nidge wrote:

No that questioning tone at the end of sentences that aren't questions is an Australian thing, in a way it might not be a question rather a rise in pitch of the speakers voice. For example. "I went to the supermarket?/(!) Then i bought some apples?/(!)" Very bloody annoying and nonsensical. Worst of all it's not irish.

Ah you've hit the nail on the head there...so it's too much Home and Away to blame? Or does it hark all the way back to The Sullivans?

nedoo

This topic is getting boring and overdone. We all agree over and over that they talk like nobs and we all have examples. Now, lets find new things to bitch about, like Zumo smoothies. Nice but every single one tastes the same! and €4 for a bananananananananan and yougart! whasdestorey?

Sparky

I am god and i hearby ban you from having an accent nedoo.

I will make you have more accidents, to even things out.

nedoo

I am a mute with no hands, you have hurt me. Typing with this stick is hard you know

Sparky

i am jesus, i shall heal you, but i cannot replenish your accent

nedoo

ah jeasus tanks

Sparky

nedoo wrote:

ah jeasus tanks

Its "Ah JESUS thanks", you forgot, you HAVE NO ACCENT

Wertz

nedoo wrote:

This topic is getting boring and overdone. We all agree over and over that they talk like nobs and we all have examples. Now, lets find new things to bitch about, like Zumo smoothies. Nice but every single one tastes the same! and €4 for a bananananananananan and yougart! whasdestorey?

WTF is a Zumo smoothie?
More sh*te influenced by Home and Away is my initial thought...
Overpriced milkshake with fruit pieces is my second...

Mossy Monk

the accent Lorraine Keane has

not cool

Sparky

i love the TG4 weather girl accents, gets me goin every time

Wertz

Sparky_S wrote:

i love the TG4 weather girl accents, gets me goin every time

Hells yeah! Now if only I knew what they were talking about

is_that_so

Wertz wrote:

Hells yeah! Now if only I knew what they were talking about

Who cares

Sparky

the weather is'nt long enough on TG4, should atleast be 10-20 mins

weemcd

the weather is'nt long enough on TG4, should atleast be 10-20 mins

and they should wear no clothes

Sparky

Naked Weather TG4 every night at 2am

now that id wait up for

Wertz

weemcd wrote:

and they should wear no clothes

Once Evelyn Cusack doesn't get wind of it.

...that's a terrible pun and an awful mental image...

Sparky

Wertz wrote:

Once Evelyn Cusack doesn't get wind of it.

...that's a terrible pun and an awful mental image...

Great pun, LOL awfull mental image i agree