Is the Dublin accent dying?

nullzero wrote: »

Far from taking it personally I was just having a laugh.
But there we have a perfect illustration of the attitude of people outside of Dublin projecting negativity onto anything said or done by anyone in Dublin. The sense of moral superiority people have outside of Dublin in their perception of Dubliners as a collection of stereotypes is too pathetic to see as anything other than hilarious.

In fairness both of ye are generalising here.

Life in Dublin is very different to life outside of Dublin , both sides have different opinions, both have positives/negatives etc.

Being from somewhere only defines a certain percentage of someone, there are other factors such as personal tastes and interests that go deeper then where you are from.

In Ireland as we are very tribal by nature, where we are from has this magnified importance "hey how are you, and where are you from?"

It's borderline obsessive, the contradiction is that once we leave Ireland whether it is on holidays or to live for good, we all unite as Irish people and look out for each other/socialise etc.

nullzero wrote: »

Saying that people from a certain place are inheritently stupid is beyond generalising.
If this person was saying these things and applying them to a group of minorities or people of a certain religious belief these statements would be appropriated as massively irresponsible. I'm not attempting to conflate being from Dublin with anything else, but the type of statements being made by this person are just highlighting their own ignorance.

Yeah but this person is not "saying these things and applying them to a group of minorities or people of a certain religious belief " so what does that have to do with anything really to be fair? If he/she was you could bring that in to it.

Lorelli! wrote: »

Use to love walking through Henry Street and you'd hear the women from the markets...

'Lighters? Five for a pound'

Its pronounced "loiters"

Geeeet yer loiters

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Its pronounced "loiters"

Geeeet yer loiters

Saw a man carrying a toddler on Henry st . Toddler had a cone in his hand and the ice cream dropped off down the mans back

" Ah Da lookah
" Ah Jaysus lickah "

nullzero wrote: »

I'm clearly not trying to bring race or religion into the debate here, I'm simply demonstrating how if you replaced the word Dublin with "black" or "Muslim" or even "traveller" the statement would be unacceptable.

Making sweeping generalisations is a sure fire way to make yourself appear like a cretin, this Woke Hogan character is clearly making really stupid statements that are only acceptable because he's offending (or to be more accurate, hoping to offend) a group of people that society at large has not been conditioned to defend.

Yeah but that argument is flawed. You can't base your argument off "if you replace this word with this word it would be unacceptable."

That's ridiculous talk, sher you could say that about anything ?

That's all im saying. So you are bringing religion and ethnicity in to this for no reason in my opinion.

Woke Hogan wrote: »

I apologise, I didn't stop to think about the struggles the Dublin minority face daily. If there are are any pro-Dublin charities or awareness campaigns I should be aware of, please let me know so I can educate myself. :rolleyes:

Wake up, good man. I don't like the accent, so what. You don't have to take or mean everything so personally.

Might have to have a Telethon to raise funds for them, Woke. Hosted by Joe Duffy, with Aslan, Damien ‘Damo’ Dempsey, and Shane Lynch from Boyzone being the headline acts.

GinAndBitter wrote: »

Smell of cow shìte off this thread.

"The new report reveals that even an urban metropolis like Dublin is home to 780 farms, 7,000 cows and 19,000 sheep, with more than 8,000 jobs in the food and drink processing sector.

And surprisingly, the capital also has the biggest farms in the country, with an average size of 47.6 hectares or 118 acres, which is twice the size of the typical farm in Counties Mayo and Monaghan". - Irish Farmers' Association (IFA) report on 'The Value of Agriculture at County Level 2014"

Yeah your probably right.

Woke Hogan wrote: »

...Wake up, good man. I don't like the accent, so what. You don't have to take or mean everything so personally.

'Kin boorst yiz, cunceyiz.

Funny you mention that, Im on erasmus abroad now and born and bred in Dublin and yesterday a yank asked me if I was american too, so maybe youre right

Scarleh

wakka12 wrote: »

Funny you mention that, Im on erasmus abroad now and born and bred in Dublin and yesterday a yank asked me if I was american too, so maybe youre right

Scarleh

People from South Carolina and Texas often wonder why I have a Jamaican accent despite being a white fella. I'm from East Limerick, I sound more-or-less exactly like Pat Shortt. :pac::pac::pac: