Irish with American accents

eth0 · 21-07-2012 07:35PM #1

That often havn't even been to the States and if they have it was only for a few weeks. Whats the story with these people, do they put in a concious effort to put on this accent?

The accent would usually be picked up from watching shoite American TV or Youtoob. Worst case the lads actually think and act like they are a character in their favourite American sitcom, these are the most annoying type; absolute insufferable gobsh1tes of the highest order. I have met a few of these, one of them is obsessed with a certain piece of kit called a Pandaboard. He started blathering on about this and using it as a media server sending TCP packets like he was a proper Starbucks-drinking San Francisco nerdhead.

Another lad I used to know seemed to reject anything traditionally Irish so he must have put on the accent for this reason, last time I seen him he was on some anti-religious rant. Went to college with him, one day someone asked him where in the States he was from. The lad was from Knocknaheeney, he should have been saying "c'mere to me boy, you're a tool!" not "Hey Guys check out this awesome CAUW-ffee".
In the same class there was another happy-go-lucky sitcom fella, he was seriously annoying now. Like the pandaboard lad the blood pressure would just start to rise as soon as he opened his mouth.

Pushtrak · 21-07-2012 07:42PM

Can't really say I've encountered the phenomenon off the top of my head.

eth0 wrote: »

Another lad I used to know seemed to reject anything traditionally Irish

Like what? GAA? Hurling?

Jen Pigs Fly · 21-07-2012 07:43PM

Cowboys ted! They're nothing but cowboys!

CatFromHue · 21-07-2012 07:44PM

Sometimes when I'm talking to someone with a strong Dublin accent my Dublin accent gets stronger....so OP what's your accent like?

Conor108 · 21-07-2012 07:44PM

Nice try Pandaboard marketer...

eth0 · 21-07-2012 07:46PM

CatFromHue wrote: »

Sometimes when I'm talking to someone with a strong Dublin accent my Dublin accent gets stronger....so OP what's your accent like?

Cork with a bit of Polish(?) apparently. Don't know where the polish came from, know a few people from there but didn't think I'd be pick up their accent

fitzYOLO · 21-07-2012 07:46PM

Woah. You are seriously so upset over this. lol get over it dude.

luckyfrank · 21-07-2012 07:47PM

Graham McDowell

Fooooooooooreeeee

eth0 · 21-07-2012 07:47PM

Conor108 wrote: »

Nice try Pandaboard marketer...

Don't buy a Pandaboard, you might end up like the gobsh1te I mentioned. The fact that this lad has one would put me off buying one in a big way

CatFromHue · 21-07-2012 07:48PM

eth0 wrote: »

That often havn't even been to the States and if they have it was only for a few weeks. Whats the story with these people, do they put in a concious effort to put on this accent?

eth0 wrote: »

Cork with a bit of Polish(?) apparently. Don't know where the polish came from, know a few people from there but didn't think I'd be pick up their accent

:pac:

NegativeCreep · 21-07-2012 07:49PM

My friend does this and she's born and bred in Ballymun! She didn't start putting on an American until we finished 6th year there in June. I no longer choose to be anywhere near her. Anyone ashamed to speak in their own accent is a fool IMO. She doesn't want people to know where she comes from when she goes to college which is ridiculous :L

Wacker The Attacker · 21-07-2012 07:53PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhnUgAaea4M

krudler · 21-07-2012 07:54PM

eth0 wrote: »

That often havn't even been to the States and if they have it was only for a few weeks. Whats the story with these people, do they put in a concious effort to put on this accent?

The accent would usually be picked up from watching shoite American TV or Youtoob. Worst case the lads actually think and act like they are a character in their favourite American sitcom, these are the most annoying type; absolute insufferable gobsh1tes of the highest order. I have met a few of these, one of them is obsessed with a certain piece of kit called a Pandaboard. He started blathering on about this and using it as a media server sending TCP packets like he was a proper Starbucks-drinking San Francisco nerdhead.

Another lad I used to know seemed to reject anything traditionally Irish so he must have put on the accent for this reason, last time I seen him he was on some anti-religious rant. Went to college with him, one day someone asked him where in the States he was from. The lad was from Knocknaheeney, he should have been saying "c'mere to me boy, you're a tool!" not "Hey Guys check out this awesome CAUW-ffee".
In the same class there was another happy-go-lucky sitcom fella, he was seriously annoying now. Like the pandaboard lad the blood pressure would just start to rise as soon as he opened his mouth.

It takes a lot to wish on someone that they would speak with a Cork accent, what'd that guy ever do to you?

Butterface · 21-07-2012 07:54PM

One of my teenage cousins speaks with American intonations. I don't know where he got it from because he's a middle child and both his brothers have flat Navan accents. He probably watched way too much Nickelodeon channel or whatever when he was a child!

juan.kerr · 21-07-2012 07:59PM

More begrudgery

dlofnep · 21-07-2012 08:00PM

Accents are a strange thing alright. My Uncle left Waterford when he was 18, and lived in London ever since. He's bordering 60 now, so he's been there for 40+ years. Despite that, he still has a thick Waterford accent with the occasional English word like 'mate' lobbed in every now and again.

I know another lad who moved to England to get a job, and after a year he had a thick English accent. You see it happen to soccer players a lot too.

Most curious is people who change their accent depending on who they are with. My friend was born in Ireland, to two parents from England. I noticed that his accent changes when speaking to them, and becomes more proper - with an English twang. When he's with us, he speaks in a bog-standard Waterford accent. It's totally not a conscious decision - and happens subconsciously. He acquired two accents by being immersed with two different groups of people. His family (English accent), and his friends/school/society (Irish accent).

But these prats who put on American accents, I have no reasonable explanation for.

Varied · 21-07-2012 08:07PM

I only realised a while ago that it's because they watch disney channel when they're kids, then MTV when they are teens. They probably hear more American accent than Irish in their childhoods.

Although there are some **** that exaggerate it.

NegativeCreep · 21-07-2012 08:10PM

Varied wrote: »

I only realised a while ago that it's because they watch disney channel when they're kids, then MTV when they are teens. They probably hear more American accent than Irish in their childhoods.

Although there are some **** that exaggerate it.

Sure anyone who's young watched American shows when they were kids these days :L I did and I still have a scumbag Blanch accent :L

Yamanoto · 21-07-2012 08:10PM

eth0 wrote: »

"Hey Guys check out this awesome CAUW-ffee".

Check out this American lady teaching the yanks how to say 'Coffee' in a British accent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBXUXqf8FXk

charlemont · 21-07-2012 08:17PM

An Australian teacher at St John's Cork was telling me he had a pupil whom he thought was American, then one day in conversation he asked him where in America he was from ? The chap was actually from Douglas all along. He just acted like something from the O.C. The teacher couldn't understand what bang he was on.

Varied · 21-07-2012 08:21PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Sure anyone who's young watched American shows when they were kids these days :L I did and I still have a scumbag Blanch accent :L

Aye but we spent most of our lives outdoors. Now kids are listening to everything American and spending life watching TV or listening to awful music.

DjFlin · 21-07-2012 08:29PM

I spent a few years living in Poland as a child. In the school I went to, most of my teachers spoke with American accents and I picked it up from them.

I've been back in Ireland 6 years now and still speak like an American.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 21-07-2012 08:35PM

My old man has a friend living and working in Chicago since the early seventies. About 3 months after moving there he returned home to watch Tipp in the 71 AI final. When they met him at arrivals they noticed the twang, the straw that broke the camels back however was when they were paying for pints at the hotel and he pipes up with "Geez guys I can't understand this goddam money".

Doom · 21-07-2012 09:28PM

I was in Galway recently, got talking to two girls and a guy, thought one of the girls was an American, so I asked her where was she from, here she says.....I started laughing and said aren't all Americans from here, But she actually was Irish, I really started to laugh then, she was totally embarrassed, I kept slagging her about her American accent, she walked away... what a tool.

lolz81 · 21-07-2012 09:30PM

I've been living in Merseyside for the past four and a half years. Whenever I talk to my friends back home they say I've got a bit of a scouse twang when I say certain words (for my sins!!!). Moving back home next week though, and I reckon within a month I'll be "howya hun"-ing it up with the rest of the Wexford crowd!

OneArt · 21-07-2012 09:49PM

I knew a girl like that. She wasn't trying to be American or anything (she was so Irish she did Irish dancing for God's sake...), she just watched so much television that her voice went that way.

I also knows lots of Germans who have American accents when they speak English. Although I allegedly have a Dutch one when I speak German.

21-07-2012 09:55PM

luckyfrank wrote: »

Graham McDowell

Fooooooooooreeeee

He lives in the US so obviously will pick up bits of the accent.

tonycascarino · 21-07-2012 10:05PM

I think some people are so insecure that they need to put on a foreign accent because they think it brings importance. There really is no excuse for an Irish person to speak with an American accent unless they actually lived in America for a long period of time.

Sky King · 21-07-2012 10:07PM

What about those people? Who say every sentence like a question? Even when it isn't a question? Does that annoy you OP?

Because it annoys me?

lolz81 · 21-07-2012 10:11PM

Sky King wrote: »

What about those people? Who say every sentence like a question? Even when it isn't a question? Does that annoy you OP?

Because it annoys me?

In my head I read that like Michelle from American Pie.

eth0 · 21-07-2012 10:39PM

Skadoosh! wrote: »

It takes a lot to wish on someone that they would speak with a Cork accent, what'd that guy ever do to you?

It would be far less annoying than the accent he had, but then my view would be biased. The only cork accent I can't stand is the cork call centre accent some women put on. Just a normal cork accent really but more nasally, with a heightened sense of importance and some fancy wording thrown in.

Sky King wrote: »

What about those people? Who say every sentence like a question? Even when it isn't a question? Does that annoy you OP?

Because it annoys me?

That wouldn't be the best now. Twould seem like they're afraid to actually say anything and always want the option of 'i was only asking'.

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