The snobbery question

SlinkyToo · 01-12-2007 11:41PM #1

If you hear a country or north dub accent do you Thank God you are not one of those awful people?

Oswald Osbourne · 01-12-2007 11:42PM

no

GLaDOS · 01-12-2007 11:43PM

I'm from north Dublin, when I here a south Dublin accent I think thank God I'm not one of the awful people

01-12-2007 11:43PM

SlinkyToo wrote: »

If you hear a country or north dub accent do you Thank God you are not one of those awful people?

what I hate is people from the country who try put on a posh Dublin accent, throw in some posh slang about places etc.....

UCD is fairly full of them - I'm reliably told.

Bob in Belfast · 01-12-2007 11:44PM

Why do you think these people are awful?
Someones accent should not really make a difference to how you treat them.

Oswald Osbourne · 01-12-2007 11:45PM

Jay D wrote: »

what I hate is people from the country who try put on a posh Dublin accent, throw in some posh slang about places etc.....

UCD is fairly full of them - I'm reliably told.

UCD is a school that teaches culchies to talk like South Dubliners. Beyond that I'm not sure what else it does.

challengemaster · 01-12-2007 11:47PM

pff, all dubs are scumbags! (joke!

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yeah, seriously, i never got the whole accent / location snobbery thing

Davei141 · 01-12-2007 11:47PM

Delete this stupid thread

SlinkyToo · 01-12-2007 11:48PM

the word 'awful' is rhetorical and not a statement.

01-12-2007 11:48PM

Bob in Belfast wrote: »

Why do you think these people are awful?
Someones accent should not really make a difference to how you treat them.

accent is always a good source to tell what kind of person a person is - scientific fact.

RuggieBear · 01-12-2007 11:50PM

peons

SlinkyToo · 01-12-2007 11:51PM

I find it entertaining that when someone doesn't like a thread they throw their joys out of the pram.

copacetic · 01-12-2007 11:53PM

ScienceNerd wrote: »

I'm from north Dublin, when I here a south Dublin accent I think thank God I'm not one of the awful people

doesn't that make you as bad as any other ignorant idiot who judges people by what they sound like or where they are from?

Bob in Belfast · 01-12-2007 11:54PM

Jay D wrote: »

accent is always a good source to tell what kind of person a person is - scientific fact.

Are you sure about that?
Who did these scientific tests?

Maybe your joking if so that's alright.

02-12-2007 12:04AM

Bob in Belfast wrote: »

Are you sure about that?
Who did these scientific tests?

Maybe your joking if so that's alright.

People who's name is Bob automatically register with many as being a certain type too,

SlinkyToo · 02-12-2007 12:07AM

Thats cool we can expand it to types of people as well.

Bob in Belfast · 02-12-2007 12:10AM

Jay D wrote: »

People who's name is Bob automatically register with many as being a certain type too,

So people named Jay are what type of person?
No need to answer i already know.;)

Davidius · 02-12-2007 12:11AM

Of course not. I'm not that kind of person. Instead, I think "I better not say anything lest they hear my accent and become overcome with jealousy which might lead they to kill themselves!".

That said I don't know what my accent sounds like but I'm sure it lacks consistency.

KTRIC · 02-12-2007 12:13AM

I work in a big international company in Munich and another Irish guy started recently in another department. I met him the day he started to introduce myself, me being one of the few Irish in that office I thought it would be nice to say hello. The first thing I noticed is that he puts on heirs and graces's and trys to sound posh or even American. He's from south county Dublin , and you'd think by the way he talks hes a yank.
I noticed after a few minutes talking to him he looses his fake accent, but still use's it with the locals.

Why do people seem to think they need to do this ??

Kernel · 02-12-2007 12:13AM

SlinkyToo wrote: »

I find it entertaining that when someone doesn't like a thread they throw their joys out of the pram.

Little amuses the simple.

02-12-2007 12:15AM

Bob in Belfast wrote: »

So people named Jay are what type of person?
No need to answer i already know.;)

ah a poet eh?? You're good

SlinkyToo · 02-12-2007 12:15AM

Says the smiling winker.

Kernal of sense perhap?

johnnyskeleton · 02-12-2007 12:20AM

What's wrong with the Castleknock, Clontarf, Howth and Malahide accents?

I think it's strange that people assume that if you're from Dublin you must either have a D4 accent or, for want of a better word, a howerya accent. I see both of these accents are being overly exaggerated. The old Dublin accent, which is a melodic, espressive accent, seems to be dissappearing.

02-12-2007 12:48AM

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

What's wrong with the Castleknock, Clontarf, Howth and Malahide accents?

I think it's strange that people assume that if you're from Dublin you must either have a D4 accent or, for want of a better word, a howerya accent. I see both of these accents are being overly exaggerated. The old Dublin accent, which is a melodic, espressive accent, seems to be dissappearing.

what made you select those places to question?

johnnyskeleton · 02-12-2007 12:55AM

Jay D wrote: »

what made you select those places to question?

Since this thread is about snobbery, I thought I might highlight the posher parts of the north side.

02-12-2007 01:01AM

right

well my honest opinion is that the concept of people who actually give a **** about accents is ridiculous.

Ok, no one likes a junkie yakking on taking an hour to say something etc.

As for the idea that the old Dublin accent is going out, I certainly disagree. I know a lot of others won't, the sort that commute to work and back, go to their local area for everything..... No wonder they haven't a clue.

Creamy Goodness · 02-12-2007 01:01AM

meh i'd rather listen to a fake posh south side accent than listen to a north side one and get robbed in the meantime.

ixoy · 02-12-2007 01:04AM

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

Since this thread is about snobbery, I thought I might highlight the posher parts of the north side.

I grew up in Portmarnock/Sutton and never saw those sides as posh and never noticed people adopting accents out here. It's a fairly neutral accent for what it's worth.
For every one faking their accent, there's another twenty or thirty changing nothing at all.

02-12-2007 01:05AM

Cremo wrote: »

meh i'd rather listen to a fake posh south side accent than listen to a north side one and get robbed in the meantime.

:rolleyes:

dilusional

johnnyskeleton · 02-12-2007 01:43AM

Jay D wrote: »

As for the idea that the old Dublin accent is going out, I certainly disagree. I know a lot of others won't, the sort that commute to work and back, go to their local area for everything..... No wonder they haven't a clue.

What I mean is that it seems to be squeezed on both sides; into what people call the dublin 4 accent on one side, and into the exaggerated Dublin accent on the other. More importantly, it seems to me that people who are not from dublin tend to assume that these are the only dublin accents.

keen · 02-12-2007 01:47AM

ScienceNerd wrote: »

I'm from north Dublin, when I here a south Dublin accent I think thank God I'm not one of the awful people

haha same here.

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