Annoying Cork people on RTE

senorwipesalot · 17-01-2012 07:58PM

Generally speaking Cork people dont put on a fake accent,the same cant be said about alot of Dubs Ive met.

But what really withers my tits, is culchies putting on a Dublin accent.
Fools.

Anon2020 · 17-01-2012 07:59PM

From Wikipedia re Cork accent:

The Cork accent displays various features which set it apart from most of the accents used in Ireland. Patterns of tone and intonation often rise and fall, with the overall tone tending to be more high-pitched than the standard Irish accent. English spoken in Cork has a large number of dialect words that are peculiar to the city and environs. Unlike standard Hiberno-English, some of these words originate from the Irish language, but others through other languages Cork's inhabitants encountered at home and abroad.:cool:

PostHack · 17-01-2012 08:06PM

As a Cork person, what annoys me most is the man-on-the-street type interviews that you see especially on TV3. They always manage to find people with the most stereotypical over the top northside accents too....

Spread · 17-01-2012 08:07PM

Definition of a MEGALOMANIAC?

A Corman who's mother comes from Cahersiveen

earpiece · 17-01-2012 09:38PM

I'd take any of the Corky folk over Ciaran Mullooooooly RTE News Mullingaaaaaaarrrrrr, anyday!

telekon · 17-01-2012 09:43PM

Yah, I much prefer the sweet velvet tones of Miriam O'Callaghan's accent any day....

Roysh?

diceyreilly · 17-01-2012 09:47PM

John Creedon.

Very fooking annoying.

Liam Byrne · 17-01-2012 09:53PM

hardybuck wrote: »

Just had to mute the television again because Jennie O'Sullivan was on the news reporting from Cork. Listening to her is like a form of torture.

Between her, Paschal Sheehy (Plastic Sheeting to Gift Grub fans) and the awful Brendan O'Connor, unsuspecting RTE viewers are regularly subjected to aural assault.

Is this effective use of our TV license fee!? I think not. I call for a ban on broadcasters from Cork unless they undertake extensive elocution lessons!

Are you seriously suggesting that Joe Duffy's accent is less grating? Or Miriam O'Callaghan / Marian Finucane's D4 warbling ?

harvester of sorrow · 17-01-2012 09:57PM

hardybuck wrote: »

Just had to mute the television again because Jennie O'Sullivan was on the news reporting from Cork. Listening to her is like a form of torture.

Between her, Paschal Sheehy (Plastic Sheeting to Gift Grub fans) and the awful Brendan O'Connor, unsuspecting RTE viewers are regularly subjected to aural assault.

Is this effective use of our TV license fee!? I think not. I call for a ban on broadcasters from Cork unless they undertake extensive elocution lessons!

FAIL

jaffacakesyum · 17-01-2012 10:05PM

I've no issues with people from Cork or the county itself (apart from the already mentioned 'Cork-is-the-most-amazing-city-in-the-world' people) but I'm sorry folks, the Cork accent is the worst accent in the world, let alone just in Ireland. :P

Jim_Kiy · 17-01-2012 10:07PM

I support the Cork demands for Secession..have your independence if you wish..and take Kerry into your republic as well.

John Doe1 · 17-01-2012 10:08PM

Lets have more south dubliners, they are totally under represented on tv at the moment:mad:

Aidric · 17-01-2012 10:18PM

I'd agree with you on Jennie O Sullivan. Her tone is terrible. The woman sounds like she is in considerable pain while delivering her reports.

kinvara64 · 17-01-2012 10:38PM

PostHack wrote: »

As a Cork person, what annoys me most is the man-on-the-street type interviews that you see especially on TV3. They always manage to find people with the most stereotypical over the top northside accents too....

Willing to accept opinions of our accent ,from other counties.There are. many other's I dont like either . But. from one of our own ...BAD form ! What chnce do we have ! Rebel County my arse.

zxc1 · 17-01-2012 10:47PM

Has to be Brendan O'Connor - the flipping MACE ads should be enough but to win....... http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/the-smart-ballsy-guys-are-buying-up-property-right-now-1047118.html

sh1tstirrer · 18-01-2012 10:25AM

I can't see how Dubs can complain about any accent

The original dub accent is a knacker accent and the new Dubs have an annoying fake accent as they were too ashamed of their original accent.

CHealy · 18-01-2012 10:50AM

jaffacakesyum wrote: »

but I'm sorry folks, the Cork accent is the worst accent in the world, let alone just in Ireland. :P

Which Cork accent though? Southside?, Northside?, East Cork? West Cork?, North Cork?, whats becoming known as the C4 accent? West City?..... I hate when people put the Cork accent in as the same all over what is a massive county. For example, I dont know one person who pronounces Cork as 'Caaark', that just sounds like someone from Kerry, anyone I know pronounces it with quite alot of emphasis on the 'or' part.

Anyway, at least its not an American accent, that accent really grinds my gears.

Stiffler2 · 18-01-2012 10:55AM

hardybuck wrote: »

Just had to mute the television again because Jennie O'Sullivan was on the news reporting from Cork. Listening to her is like a form of torture.

Between her, Paschal Sheehy (Plastic Sheeting to Gift Grub fans) and the awful Brendan O'Connor, unsuspecting RTE viewers are regularly subjected to aural assault.

Is this effective use of our TV license fee!? I think not. I call for a ban on broadcasters from Cork unless they undertake extensive elocution lessons!

O man that me lol so hard, wipes tear away from corner of eye.
I F***KN hate that Plastic Sheeting C**T - (great nickname - hijacked)

His voice goes through my head like Larry through his victims.
If I had a voice like that I'd deffo slit out my voicebox

Do you ever notice how his tone goes up then down then up then down as he talks, FFS man.

oranbhoy67 · 18-01-2012 11:06AM

what about yor man daithi o shea

BrensBenz · 18-01-2012 11:38AM

Is it actually the Cork accent that is so painful or could it be that Cork people, like Yank wimmin, speak through their noses, i.e. their treble is at max while their bass is….off. Either that or they’re speaking at an octave above the rest of the planet.
Eddie Hobbs? Very eloquent in a showbiz economist kind of way but, Eddie, please, write it down and I’ll read it. Don’t speak it at me.
George Hook has succeeded in lowering his pitch but still speaks with a mouthful of spit and that unique Cork / Colorado accent. “In the shhhhtewdio dis eeevnang O’ill be giving moy opinions to a host of gasts”.
Etc., etc. But, let’s be honest. There are other hideous accents available to us, courtesy of RTE, TV3, etc. In fact, I’m the only one I know with no accent whatsoever. Yiz all sound desprah to me.
But I have a solution – record your normal voice, playback and try to resist saying, Jayzus, do I really sound like that? Morto.
Someone give Miriam O, Marian F, Joe D, Plastic S, Eddie H, George H, Jedward, Ciaran M a voice recorder.

Cú Giobach · 18-01-2012 11:46AM

How people can knock such a lyrical, cultured and wonderful accent is beyond me, after being up the country for any length of time and hearing nothing but the flat monotone accents in "Ireland that is not Cork" it's pleasure to return to music like this.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 18-01-2012 11:47AM

oranbhoy67 wrote: »

what about yor man daithi o shea

That tool is Kerry I think.

Solair · 18-01-2012 11:51AM

All this thread says to me is that Ireland's obsessed with parochial inter-regional in-fighting that almost borders on a form of accent-based racism.

I find in general the Brits are similar too: absolutely obsessed with minor regional variations in accent and dialect.

sheesh · 18-01-2012 11:51AM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

That tool is Kerry I think.

unfortunately yes

believe me we feel really bad about that.

pablomakaveli · 18-01-2012 12:01PM

CHealy wrote: »

Which Cork accent though? Southside?, Northside?, East Cork? West Cork?, North Cork?, whats becoming known as the C4 accent? West City?..... I hate when people put the Cork accent in as the same all over what is a massive county. For example, I dont know one person who pronounces Cork as 'Caaark', that just sounds like someone from Kerry, anyone I know pronounces it with quite alot of emphasis on the 'or' part.

Anyway, at least its not an American accent, that accent really grinds my gears.

Funnily enough the only people who ever seem to say the "Caark" thing are Dubs yet i've never heard anyone down here pronounce it like that.

oranbhoy67 · 18-01-2012 12:38PM

Slighty off topic but why do 99% of Irish teenagers speak in a quasi-America accent?? Like you know OMG whatever??

force eleven · 18-01-2012 12:42PM

George Hooks' faux posh Corkonian is particularly grating on the radio.

He sounds like he's chewing a bag of wasps half the time.

Lady Chuckles · 18-01-2012 12:43PM

Accents are great! They're an identity

I don't know what you're so upset about, OP. I get sick and tired of hearing everyone on TV and radio sound exactly the same. Neutral accents are kinda fake.

More Cork, I say!

Cú Giobach · 18-01-2012 01:54PM

Lady Chuckles wrote: »

Accents are great! They're an identity I don't know what you're so upset about, OP. I get sick and tired of hearing everyone on TV and radio sound exactly the same. Neutral accents are kinda fake.

Is there such thing as a neutral accent though?
To someone from west Kerry (god love them) who never watched RTE in their life the so called neutral RTE accent would be far from it.
It's more of a case of what you get used to, to me the accent from where I grew up is totally neutral and lots of people refer to my accent as such but outside Cork the first thing people ask me is, "what part of Cork are you from, boy?"

More Cork, I say!

Lapin · 18-01-2012 02:12PM

wandatowell wrote: »

Pascal is a lot taller than I would have thought and is actually fairly handsome

O boy the pascal

Looks like a cop. Acts like a cop. Talks like a cop.

Can't stand the ****er.

Annoying Cork people on RTE

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