Irritating Accents

juuge · 16-10-2007 03:36PM #1

Does anyone else agree that the current batch of regional corresponents on RTE have the most irritating accents known to man.
Plastic sheeting for one is particularly weird in Cork not to mention streerin' Mc Gooley in the midlands.

Dudess · 16-10-2007 04:53PM

No the most irritating has got to be John Kilraine.

Nightwish · 16-10-2007 05:48PM

Moicheal McMollon on Today FM is quite possibly the most annoying the most annoying voice on radio. Where oh where did he get that accent from? He's followed closely by Jurry O Sullivan on Newstalk who talks like he's got a mouthful of slurry in his gob.

DMC · 16-10-2007 06:20PM

I can see a whole Culchie/Jackeen divide on accents here....

But, on the whole, if the report is a good one, the accents don't matter.

grumpytrousers · 16-10-2007 06:22PM

naw - that twat who does the sports news on 2fm at the weekends has the worst of the lot...waterfOHrd, longfOHrd...

the_syco · 16-10-2007 06:29PM

Try listening to some of the Dubs. Most, no problem. Some, with a very thick Dub accent are worse than a culchie from Wicklow

_blank_ · 16-10-2007 07:37PM

Johnny Lyons for the lose.

The 98fm sports guy.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

I find his voice more annoying than that interminable Don Wycherly.

Dudess · 16-10-2007 08:34PM

DesF wrote: »

I find his voice more annoying than that interminable Don Wycherly.

Oh don't do that to me - the mere thought fills me with more horror than I can take!!

grumpytrousers wrote:

naw - that twat who does the sports news on 2fm at the weekends has the worst of the lot...waterfOHrd, longfOHrd...

But I'd say he's from Louth - that's the way people with Louth accents pronounce those things. Doesn't bother me if the accent isn't put on.

mike65 · 16-10-2007 08:51PM

The RTE man-in-the-midlands-peat-bog chappie is, erm distinct.

Mike.

RadioCity · 16-10-2007 09:03PM

Treassan McCambridge (?) Today FM traffic and Alison Curtis,

juuge · 16-10-2007 09:14PM

The guy on newstalk, I think he's the business editor, cannot pronounce 'th's' so 333 is - tree hundred and turty tree - it's really annoying and amazing how many financial stories include the number 3.

mike65 · 16-10-2007 11:04PM

He is appalling, the number trees and turds is shockin! I know its how he's been bought up but some attempt at RP would be nice.

Mike.

eamon234 · 16-10-2007 11:10PM

That boll1x that does the deep voice voiceovers on 2FM - y'know the one :

On digital, online and on 90-92 eeff emm he does all the presenter stings as well excruciatingly annoying I wish someone would give him a Strepsil and tell him to shag off.

FlutterinBantam · 16-10-2007 11:13PM

Look,accents ,per se, are not too important,but as a serious radio person myself,I find I get extremely irritated by the constant heavily accented stuff and the mispronunciations which have crept into radio.

Standards have slipped and slipped big.

Small things get to you..like Des Cahill constantly refering to Donegal as "Dunnygawl" and saying "fair enuff" instead of fair enough.

That guy Barry O'Neill with his WaterFORD and WexFORD crap also gives me the skitthers as do ALL the "Off the Ball" crowd with their "Fuhball"

There are two geezers on RTE1 with the most revolting Dublin accent I've heard in a coons age Harry bradshaw is one and the other is Mc Hugh or something.

I go apoplectic when I hear them,and have to be held back from tossing the tranny over the wall into the sea.

Firetrap · 17-10-2007 12:13AM

I don't mind the regional accents, though that Galway guy Kieran Murphy on Off the Ball annoys the hell out of me because of his lisp. That's a speech impediment though, rather than a regional accent.

It's the godawful dort accents that are like nails on a blackboard to me, the worst offenders being Michael McMullin and the woman who does the business news on Radio 1's drivetime. Needless to say, there are some horrors on the AA Roadwatch.

Dudess · 17-10-2007 01:26AM

RadioCity wrote: »

Treassan McCambridge (?) Today FM traffic and Alison Curtis,

Tressan McCambridge works for AA Roadwatch, whose traffic updates are aired on Today FM via ISDN link-up. Yes, her accent is indeed unbearable. So is Amy Hill's (also of AA Roadwatch and on Today FM).
Alison Curtis is Canadian - it's fair enough if the accent isn't put on.

dubtom · 17-10-2007 02:23AM

mike65 wrote: »

He is appalling, the number trees and turds is shockin! I know its how he's been bought up but some attempt at RP would be nice.

Mike.

For some very strange reason,unknown to me, english woman have asked me several times to say 33 1/3. They either find it very funny or a turn on,I haven't figured out which yet.
Have to disagree about the buisness news reader on drive time, she sounds like sex on legs to me,perfect suction..I mean diction.

Slicklink · 17-10-2007 10:18AM

Its not just the accent its the intonation that goes with it. And Michael McMullen on Today Fm is a prime example of over the top accents. Very annoying. Something that makes some people turn off the radio. Not that I have a problem with regional accents, I dont, Paschal Sheehy is a fine broadcaster. And yes Johnny Lyons voice is just too forced & false.

Beth Ann Kilfoyle's accent ? You either love it or hate it ?

No one I know would be allowed near a station in Dublin if they had a Dublin accent (yes I know Ray shah is on q102, but I dont agree with that z celeb thing either)

bmaxi · 17-10-2007 12:04PM

For years the BBC wouldn't allow broadcasters with regional accents on air because they believed the listeners would consider them less intelligent and poorly educated. Hence the proliferation of clipped tones and public school accents. I think that this perception still holds today, even though the opposite is obvious. Joe Duffy ( love him or hate him ) is an incisive interviewer whereas the likes of Bryan Dobson, without a script, is a plank.

juuge · 17-10-2007 12:38PM

What really pisses me off is people pronouncing place name usually in Irish e.g. michael murphy, the sometimes newsreader on RTE says 'goon lira' for
Dn Laoghaire I mean who calls it that?

soundbyte · 17-10-2007 01:51PM

That guy that does the AIB promo on the (I think) sports news on 2fm, sounds like he's liquidising a lump of snot in his mouth.

Who is he, I've heard him do quite a few ads ... sounds like he was in Fair City!

Dudess · 17-10-2007 05:21PM

Yeah, he kinda sticks his chin out while speaking - infuriating.

Firetrap wrote:

the woman who does the business news on Radio 1's drivetime.

Oh yes, dreadfully snooty accent.

Slicklink wrote:

Beth Ann Kilfoyle's accent ? You either love it or hate it ?

But she's English or Welsh.

FlutterinBantam · 17-10-2007 06:35PM

Woman who does the RTE business news..is it Emma McNamara.??

She is an excellent speaker enunciates her words well and is always clear and concise.I would much rather listen to her than some "Doob" slurring her words and not pronouncing each vowell,or hs,or ts,or rs...list is endless.

Beth Ann Kilfoyle sounds like a Brummie to me... detest that accent.

DMC · 17-10-2007 06:57PM

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Beth Ann Kilfoyle sounds like a Brummie to me... detest that accent.

You could imagine her singing Funky Moped, can't you?

Dudess · 17-10-2007 07:48PM

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Woman who does the RTE business news..is it Emma McNamara.??

She is an excellent speaker enunciates her words well and is always clear and concise.I would much rather listen to her than some "Doob" slurring her words and not pronouncing each vowell,or hs,or ts,or rs...list is endless.

You can be an excellent speaker without putting on a ridiculously snooty accent.

FlutterinBantam · 17-10-2007 08:23PM

Dudess wrote: »

You can be an excellent speaker without putting on a ridiculously snooty accent.

Ridiculously to whom???

Doesn't sound ridiculous to me.

You see all this stuff eventually worms its way back to perceptions, and predjudices

Brian Kerr was an excellent speaker,but would you say he was putting on a "ridiculously skanger "accent??
I doubt it.

Yet you seem to have no problem in saying Emma is putting on a ridiculous accent?

I have some difficulty in understanding your mindset madam.

dubtom · 17-10-2007 11:45PM

indeed, leave our emma alone

Liam Byrne · 18-10-2007 01:50PM

Firetrap wrote: »

I don't mind the regional accents

What's a "regional accent" ????

Is Dublin not in a region - i.e. east ?

Joe Duffy has to be one of the worst "real" accents on national radio, while Tony Fenton has to be one of the worst "fake" ones.

Moikel MakMullen has improved, thankfully.

Let me say, too, that I normally don't like judging presenters by accents or whatever.....someone with an iffy accent but with proper diction, pronunciation, intonation and timing is a LOT better than a "DJ voice" without the above.

But yeah, national stations need to be more careful because even they need listeners to be able to identify with the station.

RadioCity · 18-10-2007 02:23PM

juuge wrote: »

What really pisses me off is people pronouncing place name usually in Irish e.g. michael murphy, the sometimes newsreader on RTE says 'goon lira' for
Dn Laoghaire I mean who calls it that?

That had me in hysterics!!!

Doesn't Anne Doyle pronounce it a bit like that?

Dudess · 18-10-2007 02:59PM

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Ridiculously to whom???

Doesn't sound ridiculous to me.

You see all this stuff eventually worms its way back to perceptions, and predjudices

Brian Kerr was an excellent speaker,but would you say he was putting on a "ridiculously skanger "accent??
I doubt it.

Yet you seem to have no problem in saying Emma is putting on a ridiculous accent?

I have some difficulty in understanding your mindset madam.

But Brian Kerr's accent is genuine. Emma's is clearly put on. If not, what region of Ireland is her accent from?

FlutterinBantam · 18-10-2007 03:09PM

D4 without a doubt.

And its not put on..all the little dumplings from that neck of the woods have that accent ..so there!!

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