Do you pick up accents or local phrases easily?

mikemac · 27-06-2009 11:03PM #1

I'm from the midlands, pure bogger accent

But my job sent me to England for six weeks and I returned asking for a "half" of Carlsberg and saying "alright mate?" on greeting people

And while I'm not from Dublin I rent in a pretty ordinary area where a lot of people say "love" to each other.
Here's your change love or Got a Tesco clubcard love as examples

And now I catch myself doing it :eek:

So do you have an accent or do you pick up other accents on your travels?

Max Power1 · 27-06-2009 11:05PM

Ach aye boss.

Max Power is not scottish

mike65 · 27-06-2009 11:06PM

Tractor to your county! :mad:

liah · 27-06-2009 11:09PM

I pick 'em up, it seems.

Takes me longer to pick up the actual accent as opposed to the lingo which only takes me a couple weeks. I don't ever try to force it on, though. Just happens naturally.

Last couple months though when people ask me where I'm from and I tell them to guess, they always pick places around Ireland, even though I grew up an entire ocean away. :pac:

Shryke · 27-06-2009 11:10PM

mike65 wrote: »

Tractor to your county! :mad:

Traitor? Or I'm so tired I can't follow three posts... you calling the man a tractor?

Latchy · 27-06-2009 11:10PM

Living in England 20 odd years plus travels around europe ,I think I am pretty good at pinpointing most accents .The English ones, Newcastle , B'Ham, Manchester ,London ,Liverpool , are pretty easy to suss although some of the smaller sattalite towns bordering these citys ie, wigan , preston , warrington , and up Lancashire /Cumbria/Cheshire way can be on the tricky side .

KTRIC · 27-06-2009 11:12PM

Nicht wirklich

Whosbetter? · 27-06-2009 11:13PM

Been around a bit myself but it seems that the Carlow accent is indestructable.:cool:

Saibh · 27-06-2009 11:16PM

Went on sun holiday and met up with some people from Cork over the two weeks. Came home with a Cork accent :pac:

True story....

KeyLimePie · 27-06-2009 11:22PM

oh god yeah

like bees on honey, I stayed in dublin there last week with a friend and by the end of it I was calling everything deadly.. =p I'm going to college to UCD in september so I expect to be back in cork with a d4 accent

soccymonster · 27-06-2009 11:24PM

Lived in west limerick till i was about ten years old and at that point i had a real aul limerick accent on me. Then i moved to clare and since then my accent has never changed. All my friends tell me that i sound like a right aul anti-social type of person that walks around the town doing nothing but tormenting people?? Wtf? Is there a type of way these people talk or something?.. FYI im not anti-social :P.. Sure, i get taken the piss outta me because of the way i talk.. So i guess i dont pick up on accents at all, at all?.. I have one accent and one accent only i guess..

Rented Mule · 27-06-2009 11:26PM

How you doin' ?

Fah-get about it.

Hey .....It ain't gonna suck itself.

Nope .....I sound exactly the same as I did when I first landed here in 1982.

27-06-2009 11:33PM

Ridiculously easily. It's actually 100 x more effort for me to keep my 'original accent' (and God knows what that is since I'd lived in 3 countries before 18) than to pick up the accent of the person I'm talking to.

Wez · 28-06-2009 12:25AM

I could be talking like somebody by the end of the conversation, kinda annoying at times, nearly sounds like I'm immitating them, which they must all question..

My bro's GF is the same, I always notice it whenever she's over, but whenever we're out and she's there, it'll always be her own..

Weird! So it's not just me anyway!

Wishbone Ash · 28-06-2009 12:30AM

My mother has a 'front door' accent and a 'telephone' accent.

oisinmc14 · 28-06-2009 12:33AM

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

My mother has a 'front door' accent and a 'telephone' accent.

she also has a bedroom accent:D

leninbenjamin · 28-06-2009 12:35AM

Pick them up dead easy all right. to the extent people think I'm taking the piss.

claireloopy · 28-06-2009 12:36AM

doesnt everyone have a telephone accent? ha. Well I pick accents up really easy went to cork for two days and came back with it, my da is always jeering me about that ha

Aidric · 28-06-2009 12:40AM

mikemac wrote: »

But my job sent me to England for six weeks and I returned asking for a "half" of Carlsberg and saying "alright mate?" on greeting people

Are you serious? **** sake man, get a grip.

Wishbone Ash · 28-06-2009 12:46AM

claireloopy wrote: »

doesnt everyone have a telephone accent? ha. Well I pick accents up really easy went to cork for two days and came back with it, my da is always jeering me about that ha

I'd be a lot more worried about the "ha"! Do you use it in normal conversation? :eek:

HalloweenJack · 28-06-2009 01:05AM

Reasonably well able to pick out different accents, even some foreign ones (like New York and New England).

Though I do get offended when people (generally ones from outside Dublin) assume I'm a Dub when I have a hefty Wicklow accent.

anonymous_joe · 28-06-2009 01:14AM

Went out with someone whose accent changed really quickly.

Personally though, mine never really changes.

claireloopy · 28-06-2009 01:18AM

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

I'd be a lot more worried about the "ha"! Do you use it in normal conversation? :eek:

Yes I do actually ha. Its good to ha do you ever ha?

Sofiztikated · 28-06-2009 09:33AM

Using phrases like "Half a beer," and "Deadly buzz," aren't accents. That's just phrases that people use.

The sound of your voice is the accent. If it came out like "Awwight mate," that'd be the accent.

I pick them up fairly handy, and at the moment, I don't like it, living in Cavan and have picked up the worst accent I can think of!

My brother lives in Monaghan now, and has a strong accent, but it only takes a phone call from a mate and a Cork twang comes back!

studiorat · 28-06-2009 09:49AM

Apparently it's a sign of someone having a musical ear. That's to say if you pick up accents easily you are quite musical. Or would be good at music if you tried.

Rented Mule · 28-06-2009 11:01AM

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

My mother has a 'front door' accent and a 'telephone' accent.

Yore Ma ?

Mossy Monk · 28-06-2009 11:14AM

mikemac wrote: »

I'm from the midlands, pure bogger accent

But my job sent me to England for six weeks and I returned asking for a "half" of Carlsberg and saying "alright mate?" on greeting people

And while I'm not from Dublin I rent in a pretty ordinary area where a lot of people say "love" to each other.
Here's your change love or Got a Tesco clubcard love as examples

And now I catch myself doing it :eek:

So do you have an accent or do you pick up other accents on your travels?

What you have described is not an accent.

Lorrs33 · 28-06-2009 11:24AM

I've been asked several times what part of America I'm from, when I'm only going there for the first time at the end of the month

That's what happens when you spend too much time watching American television.

I would say Dublin accents are the most vulnerable.

markok84 · 28-06-2009 11:27AM

I just pick up skanks.

JIZZLORD · 28-06-2009 11:29AM

i regain a sligo accent whenever i'm home for more than a weekend

emigrant36 · 28-06-2009 11:46AM

studiorat wrote: »

Apparently it's a sign of someone having a musical ear. That's to say if you pick up accents easily you are quite musical. Or would be good at music if you tried.

I've heard that too... I pick up accents really easily! When I get defensive I speak with a cork accent!! Can't spend ANY time in Dublin cause I sound like a d4 head after a while. My sis told me this weekend that I have developed a twang over here in London... I think it's because my accent is quite flat aswell, with a little northern influence-- which was flattened somwhat in college..
I'm hating losing my accent!

Do you pick up accents or local phrases easily?

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