Trinity West Brit Syndrome

ross_castle

In a privioustread we breifly tuched upon how Ez pres Frankie[ THE MACHINE] Kierans from DROADA.. Whre they eat things like Maz Bazs and read things calld bouks. Spoke with the most unusaul accent. Now as it happens my cuz was best buds with Frankie. Back in the bad old days in secondary schools. as a result i met Frankie on a couple of occasions and had the stogest Droada accent I ever heard. When he took over his role as pres I met him one day and was truly amazed to hear his softer then soft accent. Has anyone else had noticed anything similar one day the northsides fines the next day a cambridge don. I wonder does it also work backwards. If a Shrewsbury Rd afficando attend community collage in Drawda would they also be reading Boaks and eating Maz Bazs come the end of the course.

ApeXaviour

what?

ross_castle

Waht I asing is do some people, and I mean only some people beging to devlop airs and graces just because they attend TCD. the so called "west brit" syndrome.I use Frank K as a example. becasuse I'v sen it happento him

regi

Want some fish with that chip on your shoulder?

geraghd

Ok ross castle any chance you could spell properly and highlight using perhaps inverted commas when you intend a word to be pronounced differently, cause your posts are all over the place..

And Im not sure where you think Francis has put on an accent. I didnt know him before TCD, but I can say that he hasnt some sort of west-brit accent but more of a personal defined accent, ie his own exclusive accent rather than a put-on stereotypical one..

ross_castle

We'll as some one who knows him for the last 12 years Iam telling you. Its put on. In no way am i trying t attack little frankie. But just using him as a high profile example. As far as gramer and spellings and what not I have aspengers

Ross:)

fade

accents change you clown! how long ha he been goin to college in dublin? his accent will naturally soften! duh!

Pet

I definitely agree there is a small amount of "Trinity West Brit syndrome", there's no denying it. But that's more to do with the particular individual's personal insecurities than it is the college. (My lab partner last year had the most cut-glass upperclass English accent, even though she was born and bred in Killiney. But she was a stupid, dumb, stuck-up waste-of space bitch anyway, who really, really needed to get laid. And the lab assistant hated her, which brought me no end of amusement.)

Most people I know have kept their culchie/scanger/whatever accents. I intend to hang on to the little of mine that's left.

Anyways, the Drawda accent is tough to understand, can you blame Frankie for switching to a more widely-understood accent? He does have to do a lot of speaking..

I haven't really lost my english accent after living in Ireland for 7 years, but it's certainly less prominent now. Walking about the Trinity campus, hearing lots of English students about, I often wonder if I ever sounded THAT English.

Nietzschean

Really has been a week of stupid threads.... o well...