Affected accents!

AskMyChocolate · 29-06-2011 03:12PM #1

Jaysus,

The D4 one is bad enough, but where the fook does an accent like Rachel Allen's come from?

Are there any other shockers out there?

arybvtcw0eolkf · 29-06-2011 03:16PM

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

Jaysus,

The D4 one is bad enough, but where the fook does an accent like Rachel Allen's come from?

Are there any other shockers out there?

Who is Rachel Allen?.

(Honest question).

alexjk · 29-06-2011 03:17PM

All accents are affected. You don't come out of the womb speaking.

The King of Moo · 29-06-2011 03:18PM

The only thing worse than people actually from D4 speaking that way is when people from other parts of the country put the accent on. You hear it all the time in Galway.

My favourite affected accent is this though: Former England football manager Steve McLaren shortly after joining Dutch club FC Twente as manager

:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWptErAWrmQ

Slaygal · 29-06-2011 03:19PM

Lisa Fitzpatrick ( The fiancee of Gerald 'Celebrity Solicitor' Kean) sounds very odd.

RachaelVO · 29-06-2011 03:19PM

Logan Numerous Pup wrote: »

Who is Rachel Allen?.

(Honest question).

Count your blessings you don't know who she is.

She's Darina Allens daughter in law (I think), and she has the most dreadful
pseudo posh accent. Everything is "just Goorge-oouuss"

kfallon · 29-06-2011 03:21PM

RachaelVO wrote: »

Count your blessings you don't know who she is.

She's Darina Allens daughter in law (I think), and she has the most dreadful
pseudo posh accent. Everything is "just Goorge-oouuss"

i still wouldn't mind a go on her funbags all the same :pac:

arybvtcw0eolkf · 29-06-2011 03:22PM

RachaelVO wrote: »

Count your blessings you don't know who she is.

She's Darina Allens daughter in law (I think), and she has the most dreadful
pseudo posh accent. Everything is "just Goorge-oouuss"

Cheers, I was going to google her but I won't bother my arse now.

coco_lola · 29-06-2011 03:28PM

Logan Numerous Pup wrote: »

Cheers, I was going to google her but I won't bother my arse now.

Don't bother. She's in all those "O'Briens" ads, her signature sandwiches. Terrible accent.

RachaelVO · 29-06-2011 03:31PM

kfallon wrote: »

i still wouldn't mind a go on her funbags all the same :pac:

I bet ya wouldn't!

vangoz · 29-06-2011 03:32PM

Where did it honestly all start??? Your from Dublin, but speak with a beverly hills/royal accent?

Whats wrong with an actual Dublin accent, people seem to associate it to the stereotypes of "scumbags" and the like.

I've known so many people who changed their accents to fit in, either in college or work..... makes me sick

AskMyChocolate · 29-06-2011 03:36PM

Logan Numerous Pup wrote: »

Who is Rachel Allen?.

(Honest question).

She's a TV chef Mak, who bakes, on RTE.

She has the wierdest accent I've ever heard. It's like a Longford woman, trying to hide an affected D4 accent, while sucking one of those sour apple sweets y'used to be able to buy by the quarter. (The one that had a bit of brown paper still stuck to it.)

Choco

Johner · 29-06-2011 03:39PM

Graeme McDowell.

Northern Irish/American accent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQWdmb6vLKk

RichieC · 29-06-2011 03:42PM

Harley in Treme!

Chris P. Bacon · 29-06-2011 03:49PM

You should hear what the posh Waterford accent sounds like!!

kfallon · 29-06-2011 03:52PM

RachaelVO wrote: »

I bet ya wouldn't!

I'd leave them looking like a painters radio

AskMyChocolate · 29-06-2011 03:55PM

vangoz wrote: »

Where did it honestly all start??? Your from Dublin, but speak with a beverly hills/royal accent?

Whats wrong with an actual Dublin accent, people seem to associate it to the stereotypes of "scumbags" and the like.

I've known so many people who changed their accents to fit in, either in college or work..... makes me sick

I think it's a generational thing. I know a couple of people from D4, quite a few from Dalkey/Killiney, and I grew up in D14 myself, and I can honestly say that I don't know a person, over the age of thirty, who calls the Dart "the Dort" or calls a pint of Heineken a "point of Hoineken" never mind a "point of ken".

Kids. Fookin wierd.

*grumbles. And shakes The Irish Times*:pac:

Oirish Toimes, Granddad.

uch · 29-06-2011 04:00PM

Everyone thats not from D4 has an awful affected accent .

major deegan · 29-06-2011 04:01PM

Nadine Coyle!

Sinfonia · 29-06-2011 04:01PM

Who's the traffic reporter on Spin or something who goes "Red Cew Reowndabeowt is chocka"...

*head explodes*

Mr Benevolent · 29-06-2011 04:02PM

Gay men's accents (well, some of them).

Lady Chatterton · 29-06-2011 04:05PM

Slaygal wrote: »

Lisa Fitzpatrick ( The fiancee of Gerald 'Celebrity Solicitor' Kean) sounds very odd.

I agree her accent is awful, but her name is Lisa Murphy (soon to be Mrs. Kean

) Lisa Fitzpatrick is a stylist on TV3 her accent is a little strange too.

OutlawPete · 29-06-2011 04:06PM

I happen to have such an accent and what of it.

Your threads can be a right ruiners sometimes Choco.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 29-06-2011 04:07PM

Chris P. Bacon wrote: »

You should hear what the posh Waterford accent sounds like!!

Waterford people sound like Dubs to me.

Lady Chatterton · 29-06-2011 04:09PM

I think Michael and Jackie Healy Rae have possibly the funniest accents I've ever heard.

Talk isn't cheap as Michael knows, that was one whooper of a phone bill he received

kfallon · 29-06-2011 04:10PM

MrsD007 wrote: »

I think Michael and Jackie Healy Rae have possibly the funniest accents I've ever heard.

Talk isn't cheap as Michael knows, that was one whooper of a phone bill he received

Ah good afternoon Mrs Tesco :pac:

krd · 29-06-2011 04:24PM

The D4 accent is not the worst. And I know a lot of people fake it and exaggerate, it is actually a real accent.

I lived in a town in Kerry a few years ago, and I was surprised, the kids from better off families affected D4 accents to distinguish themselves from the less well off. It was pretty weird.

But the affected accents that really get my back up.

The pompous Irish businessman accent: It's haughty and little horse. And the choice of language is to say, I'm a no nonsense man from a good family. I'm a little backward and behind the times in pop music. I like rugby and golf. It's very superficial. But it is the lingua franc of the Irish business world - if you don't speak it forget about a career in corporate Ireland.

The one I really hate - that nearly drives me to violence.

The exaggerated bogger accent: It's a fake over egged country accent. It's to say, I'm ignorant and proud of my ignorance. It's often spoken by people who are from the big farm and the pub families. Who've been educated at Ireland's most exclusive boarding schools.

Dublin TD's for Fianna Fail are notorious for speaking in fake bogger accents. Often with any trace of a Dublin accent. How can someone who grew up in urban Dublin not have a Dublin accent? And speak with some kind of mid-Ireland culchie accent. Even in rural county Dublin they have Dublin accents.

vangoz · 29-06-2011 04:27PM

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

I think it's a generational thing. I know a couple of people from D4, quite a few from Dalkey/Killiney, and I grew up in D14 myself, and I can honestly say that I don't know a person, over the age of thirty, who calls the Dart "the Dort" or calls a pint of Heineken a "point of Hoineken" never mind a "point of ken".

Kids. Fookin wierd.

*grumbles. And shakes The Irish Times*:pac:

Oirish Toimes, Granddad.

Thats it, I work with a few people from said areas who are all in their 40's and 50's and do not talk like that at all. Happen to be real nice and not snobish in the slightest. Yet the younger generation * shakes fist and IT with you *

kfallon · 29-06-2011 04:28PM

I hate when people visit the States for about 3 days and then come back with the accent :rolleyes:

Btw I thought this thread would be about stutters etc

:pac:

Dustaz · 29-06-2011 04:29PM

Johner wrote: »

Graeme McDowell.

Northern Irish/American accent.

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He's from northern Ireland and has lived in America for the last 10 years, what's the problem with his accent?

It might sound strange but its not affected

krd · 29-06-2011 04:30PM

MrsD007 wrote: »

I think Michael and Jackie Healy Rae have possibly the funniest accents I've ever heard.

Talk isn't cheap as Michael knows, that was one whooper of a phone bill he received

It's a put on accent.

Healy-Rae's are South Kerry old money. They've always been about fakery. It's real horrible exaggeration of a Kerry accent.

Affected accents!

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