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Has anyone ever remarked on your Irish accent

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  • #32
    ted1
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    I've got plenty of action using my Irish accent. Americans, Finnish, English, Icelandics, Japanese, spainish


  • #33
    Larianne
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    In a store in Chicago, the sales assistant asked where I was from. I replied Ireland.

    She commented that my accent was so good.

    Sorry I say. :confused:

    You speak our language so well she says. :rolleyes:

    I laughed all the way up Michigan Avenue. Idiot.


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
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    I can recognise a Tipp accent, oddly. I'm from Wexford myself.


  • #35
    markie29
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    my cavan accent has netted me a nice venezuelan chica!....who would have thought it eh? and she says my accent melts her ...wohoo


  • #36
    stimpson
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    On the piss in London one night with an english friend and her mates. Her sister tells me that my accent makes her moist.

    I spent the night whispering "Tirty tree and a tird" in her ear in the hope of a shag.


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  • #37
    mikemac1
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    Sar_Bear wrote: »
    I've been told several times there's a tipp accent, though I don't hear it myself. Lots of people I've met have guessed where I'm from from my accent.

    Well, possibly that does be the way you do be talking, you know like well
    People do be hearing it as you do be speaking. Tis the way ;)


    Maybe but tbh, Offaly and Kilkenny are much the same
    Laois too, it's nothing special


    Now down around Carrick on Suir they talk like those deise yahoos :pac:


  • #38
    OneArt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    German people always remark on my Dutch accent.

    I have never been to the Netherlands, nor can I speak Dutch.


  • #39
    ted1
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    OneArt wrote: »
    German people always remark on my Dutch accent.

    I have never been to the Netherlands, nor can I speak Dutch.
    The good old Irish and hollish mix up. Had it happen a few times


  • #40
    mikemac1
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    stinkle wrote: »

    EDIT:should probably expand, know a fair few Tipp people (living in Dublin) and used to go there on hols, and ok, there probably isn't a specific accent exclusive to the county but it sounds to me like the "authentic " non-Dub, non-Nordie non-Cork Irish accent a lot of actors in movies/TV shows attempt. Like a default Irish accent!

    You've explained it better then I ever could


  • #41
    PseudoFamous
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    I have a bastard child of an Arklow and Balbriggan accent, so people often ask me where I'm from.


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  • #42
    stinkle
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    mikemac1 wrote: »
    You've explained it better then I ever could
    bahaha! should also include the non-country-girl-whos-just-moved-to-a-city-"neutral"-accent accent! Know a few Mayo heads who insist they have a "neutral" accent but actually they actively try to sound D4! Embrace the local accents I say :pac:


  • #43
    Laika1986
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 620 ✭✭✭Laika1986


    American girls love it,one girl just asked me to tell her a story, jez she was soaking


  • #44
    [Deleted User]
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    PseudoFamous wrote: »
    I have a bastard child of an Arklow and Balbriggan accent, so people often ask me where I'm from.

    I grew up in Wexford, moved to south Dublin and picked up a posh accent, then years later I moved to Balbriggan and suddenly, when people asked how old I was, I was "twenty noine". I pick up accents easily. Now I'm back in south Dublin with a few country flatmates I'm from Wexford again.


  • #45
    beano345
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭beano345


    all the time here in toronto all i hear is "i love your accent" works wonders


  • #46
    tuxy
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    Sar_Bear wrote: »
    I've been told several times there's a tipp accent, though I don't hear it myself. Lots of people I've met have guessed where I'm from from my accent.

    Of course there is a Tipp accent, every town in Tipp has a different one.
    I'm over in London and people usually tell I'm Irish and even list many counties they know I'm not from. But I have yet to find someone who got it right.
    Also because of the flat accent Tipp people tend to pick up other accents fast.


  • #47
    woodoo
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    tuxy wrote: »
    Of course there is a Tipp accent, every town in Tipp has a different one.
    I'm over in London and people usually tell I'm Irish and even list many counties they know I'm not from. But I have yet to find someone who got it right.
    Also because of the flat accent Tipp people tend to pick up other accents fast.

    The Kinninaskully accent.


  • #48
    mikemac1
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    tuxy wrote: »
    Also because of the flat accent Tipp people tend to pick up other accents fast.

    True, very true


  • #49
    Nodin
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    Wall E wrote: »
    At home or abroad, people seem to like it, although sometimes I reckon it's the Northern one they think of :) Any stories guys ? :D
    Edit : Forgot to add my story. Two weeks ago I was talking to a Swedish guy, he was sound, and I said I'm surprised you didn't think I was English as most foreigners can think this when they hear you speaking English. He said no it was really easy to see I was Irish with the accent :D

    I have been in the position where people have done the 'I.CANNOT.UNDERSTAND.YOU.' thing.


  • #50
    beks101
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    All the time, it's quite a handy tool when you're abroad I think.

    Depending on where you're from though I think you need to be strategic about your accent - we tend to talk ridiculously quick and swear a hell of a lot, and I've met a few Irish over here who have such strong (usually Cork or Dub) accents that Canadians just stand there with a confused expression on their faces when they talk.

    I talk far slower here when I'm at work and swear about 5% of what I usually would at home. They lap it up though, I hear 'what a charming accent!' at least once a day:)


  • #51
    watna
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    They love it in NZ - always getting compliments on it. It comes in handy because I've a job where I deal with people's salaries and I often have to say no to pay increases and things. I've been told it's easier hearing it because I have a nice accent!! :)

    I think my accent is quite mild but apparently you can tell straight away that it is Irish - when I was home last my friends said they could hear a kiwi twang in it. I need to watch that before I start looking for fush and chips and saying know-an and show-an instead of known and shown!

    I've had to slow down though because I was talking to fast. I deal with someone from Dublin o the phone every so often and people say they can't understand me at all when they hear me talking to him.


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  • #52
    [Deleted User]
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    Very few people can tell that I've an Irish accent. It's very, very neutral. I usually leave people guessing where I'm from for a while before the say Ireland.. :(


  • #53
    Ginny
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    In Old Navy in San Fran
    "Oh I love your British accent"
    "I'm from Ireland actually..."
    *looks confused*
    "But aren't they the same???"

    Another thing, I previously worked with a company in the UK, have English relatives etc.. without fail they all comment on how Irish people pronounce words. They seem to think it's hilarious. I would never ever comment on other peoples accents, but nearly every English person I've met thinks our pronunciation is a big joke and try to get people to repeat words or sayings....Idiots.


  • #54
    Fluorescence
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    One American chap guessed I was Russian from my accent. The red hair and freckles didn't tip him off :pac:


  • #55
    Mickey Dazzler
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    English birds love it... the amount time I've gotten the sex cause of it. Fecking marvellous. ....Sluts.....


  • #56
    Fart
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    A lot of people here think I'm either American or Canadian. I certainly do have an Irish accent so I don't know where they're getting that idea from.


  • #57
    IM0
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    more the lack of it anytime I travel abroad

    cunts, we dont all speak like we have muck in our mouths :mad:


  • #58
    uch
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    Was told by an American girl once that us Irish cant pronounce our "TH's" and that this was the only way she could distinguish between Irish and other English speaking accents

    22/25



  • #59
    minidazzler
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    I'm from Cork and tend to befriend lots of Americans, had one girlfriend who is American who I went to visit last year, I spent about 2 hours one night just saying stuff so her and her friends could laugh over the accent. If I ever again hear someone say "Say Thirty three and a third" again, I'll cry. Apparently we say it like turty tree and a turd.


  • #60
    Snowie
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    Lia_lia wrote: »
    Very few people can tell that I've an Irish accent. It's very, very neutral. I usually leave people guessing where I'm from for a while before the say Ireland.. :(

    me to i got a really soft neutral voice most people think I'm from scandinavia or something :confused:

    I prefer not having some ahhh sure accent :pac:

    who am i kid din I'm a west brit :o


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  • #61
    rainbowdrop
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    fluorescence wrote: »
    One American chap guessed I was Russian from my accent. The red hair and freckles didn't tip him off :pac:

    I met a Russian lad at a house party one night, and he had ginger hair and freckles. Just assumed he was Irish until i spoke to him. Apparently it's rare but not completely unknown for Russian's to be of the ginger persuasion! I'd say he got an unmerciful mocking in school:D

    I grew up in the north of England, moved here 14 years ago and live half way between Cork and Limerick and my accent is mangled! I often get asked what part of Dublin i'm from:confused:. I have no ties with Dublin, and don't have any friends or family from there, but people seem to think I sound like a Dub, even though I think me accent is still half English. Was up there for a weekend a couple of years ago, and asked a tour bus driver for directions to Dublin zoo, and he said to me "what are ya asking me for? sure aren't you from Dublin?". I think he thought I was taking the piss!!


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