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Accents of Ireland

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  • #62
    Pang
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Pang


    Having been in South Carlow recently, I noticed how strong it is.


  • #63
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    py2006 wrote: »
    It is very much American.
    "Like, I totally want to get another drink now".
    "I was, like, you know when you don't feel like a latte right now".

    Starting with like, or ending with like isn’t just American. Irish people have been doing that for years - Cork more than Dublin.

    Like in the Middle is a bit American. It all depends on the emphasis though, the yank version emphasises the like (often with a vocal fry) while Irish people rush it.


  • #64
    whisky_galore
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    Did it always mean that? The term was used in the orignal Mad Max, I didn't know boy racers were a thing back then.

    Their boy racers have cars with proper engines, not a rice rocket powered by a sewing machine with a dustbin as an exhaust.


  • #65
    the purple tin
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    I reckon Friends and the film and series Clueless were the biggest like influence on the like original like wannabe yanks in Ireland.


  • #66
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    the purple tin wrote: »
    I reckon Friends and the film and series Clueless were the biggest like influence on the like original like wannabe yanks in Ireland.

    Cork people have been saying like for generations.


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  • #67
    shakeitoff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭shakeitoff


    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    Starting with like, or ending with like isn’t just American. Irish people have been doing that for years - Cork more than Dublin.

    Like in the Middle is a bit American. It all depends on the emphasis though, the yank version emphasises the like (often with a vocal fry) while Irish people rush it.

    That's so spot on, Irish people saying like is like a paniced filler, when Americans do it it's longer and drawn out to give the story length.


  • #68
    py2006
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    I remember when Jedward first appeared on Britains got talent, they were talking like that and Simon Cowell asked them what the story was with the American accents.


  • #69
    the purple tin
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    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    Cork people have been saying like for generations.
    Maybe they took it over there when they like emmigrated.


  • #70
    fineso.mom
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    Google 'The Black Irish of Monserrat".


  • #71
    Dakota Dan
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    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    What accent are you thinking of?

    What they call a neutral accent.


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  • #72
    Dakota Dan
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    shakeitoff wrote: »
    Yeah but it's not like the Americans, it's an Irish way of saying like. My dad from inner city dublin says it like that.

    Wrong, in cork they might say you know now like never heard it used anywhere else in Ireland until the American influence started off.


  • #73
    JohnnyFlash
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    Most of the Nordie accents are as shrill and unpleasant as the people they emerge from. You can hear the bitterness and misery in every syllable they utter. The culchie Tyrone one is the worst of all. Grotesque.


  • #74
    Franz Von Peppercorn
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    Dakota Dan wrote: »
    What they call a neutral accent.

    Give an example. You said it was an uneducated accent. Makes no sense.


  • #75
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Here’s an example (thread title) of the Irish use of like.

    https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057890584/2/#post107494671


  • #76
    Lorelli!
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    Wasn't there an old Howth accent which was quite distinctive but has basically died out now?

    A friend of mine has an unusual accent and someone told us before that he speaks exactly like the old Howth accent even though he's not from Howth :confused:


  • #77
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Lorelli! wrote: »
    Wasn't there an old Howth accent which was quite distinctive but has basically died out now?

    A friend of mine has an unusual accent and someone told us before that he speaks exactly like the old Howth accent even though he's not from Howth :confused:

    There still is one, but it’s hard to describe. Best attempt is a light north side accent with some of the baying characteristics of rugby south side accents. But that doesn’t do it justice and it’s the modern howth accent. Not sure what the old one was.


  • #78
    dave 27
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    Im just going to leave this here!

    Limerick accent in this is considered in my opinion a standard accent, its not posh but its not a knackery one either..

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


  • #79
    [Deleted User]
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    fineso.mom wrote: »
    Google 'The Black Irish of Monserrat".

    Yes, that was a Radharc documentary in the 70s if I recall. Absolutely fascinating history behind that accent.

    There's also another old RTÉ video on YouTube interviewing a native of St John's in Newfoundland. She had this amazing Wexford accent (Talamh an Éisc, Land of Fish, has long been the Irish name for Newfoundland; very surprisingly, Irish fishing fleets are on record going that far since the late 16th century).

    Actually, found her! Listen to her syntax - "And I didn't know but they were nuns and they didn't know but I was a man" - a direct translation from the Irish.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xmqb4W2T0M


    And here's the couple from Montserrat with the Cork accent on them:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfip96k1cE0



    Bring back, Radharc documentaries, RTÉ!


  • #80
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    :)



  • #81
    Breaston Plants
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    Offaly accent, disgusting.


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  • #82
    Electric Sheep
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    The Tipperary accent is very ugly. It involved a complete inability to pronounce dipthongs.


  • #83
    James Brown
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    I like the Mayo accent. Or should I say, May-ooo.


  • #84
    shakeitoff
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    A girl in my college class had the cutest Kilkenny accent, I also like Longford. The generic middle class Dublin accent is pretty good as well. A non fake posh south dublin accent is also hot when the girl is sound.


  • #85
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    I agree about soft northern Irish accents.

    I was watching an old interview with the late snooker player Alex Higgins recently. He had one of the most beautiful speaking voices I've ever heard, lovely soft lilt, so at odds with his character.


    If you didn't know him it would be difficult to place where exactly he was from.


  • #86
    SilverPenney
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    A thick traveller accent spoken by a grizzled, overweight male can be quite appealing.


  • #87
    RhubarbCrumble
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    YupLimerick wrote: »
    (Limerick has two, posh and knacker. Both aren't the best but they're not the worst as I'm used to them).

    It has three. I know because I have the third one. Horrendously strong culchie.


  • #88
    touts
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    Inner city Dublin Accent. You just know your day is about to go down hill.


  • #89
    Purple Mountain
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    Electric Sheep wrote: »
    The Tipperary accent is very ugly. It involved a complete inability to pronounce dipthongs.

    Wha da fuq are dipthongs?

    To thine own self be true



  • #90
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    the idea that anyone with a neutral "posh" RTE Dublin accent is putting it on is nonsense. That's honestly how a whole lot of people speak without any "notions".


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  • #91
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Purple Mountain wrote: »
    Wha da fuq are dipthongs?

    If you have to ask.

    I sit beside a tipp lass. Fairly neutral Irish affect to my ears, close to Waterford.


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