Why Can't Other Nationalities Understand the Irish?

Nehaxak · 11-12-2008 06:47PM

pyure wrote: »

Today at around 2pm on rte1 radio was a story about ballymun, featuring an interview with a local resident - listened for a couple of minutes and couldn't understand a single word he was saying, might as well have been a foreign language.

Being from Ballymun, I find it hard to understand people sometimes who are very well spoken. It's when they speak fast, some of the words just slip me by and I can't understand what they're saying.

Ireland is the only place in the world where there are so many accents, even in Dublin alone there must be 4 or 5 different accents and every county in Ireland seems to have at least a single particular accent belonging to that county alone.

The UK I suppose would be a close second to Ireland but it just seem really bad here. I blame the GAA.

Only accent I don't like is the one used by the newsreaders on RTE, fcking hate it I do. "Welcome to the Are Tee Eee news. Today in Dublin, the Gordee did something bloh bloh". Fck off and pronouce your r's and a's correctly ffs :mad:

stovelid · 11-12-2008 06:50PM

The only Irish one that used to get me at first was some (quickly-spoken) Belfast accents. The Ail Knahk Yer Fuhkin Bate In type ones.

nyarlothothep · 11-12-2008 06:56PM

I was born here, and sometimes I can't understand people if they have a thick inner city/country accent. Main problem is not pronouncing consonants properly, running them into the vowels.

Adyx · 11-12-2008 07:16PM

Wasn't there a program on Channel Four a few years ago about the kids with horses in Dublin? They actually had subtitles so people could understand what they were saying.

bmurphy4ireland · 11-12-2008 07:18PM

i have a normal un-scobe accent but still in usa people cudnt understand me. lmao

ewj1978 · 11-12-2008 07:33PM

cos we're always drunk?...cos we're Racist?...cos they're racist?... cos they don't speak english? who knows...?

Why Can't Other Nationalities Understand the Irish?

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