American accent

dgt · 29-11-2013 10:49AM #1

I normally wouldn't bother but this has me baffled. Why so many people speak with a put on american accent, I just can't figure it.... Like yer wan going into a lecture with a suitcase talking to some guy (probably in the friendzone) saying how she was from cork and lives up but in a put on accent

Dravokivich · 29-11-2013 10:52AM

I don't have an American accent, I'm concentrating on trying to speak clearly. It's annoying having to point out the difference.

mutley18 · 29-11-2013 10:53AM

Them guys really bug me, they are just acting like total jerk-offs.

BMJD · 29-11-2013 10:53AM

dgt wrote: »

Like yer wan going into a lecture with a suitcase talking to some guy (probably in the friendzone) saying how she was from cork and lives up but in a put on accent

anything is better than a Cork accent, I wouldn't be complaining

Chips Lovell · 29-11-2013 11:01AM

Where are these people? I haven't encountered them.

whirlpool · 29-11-2013 11:03AM

This same topic gets a new thread about once a month.

Look, it's time to get the f*ck over it. Accents develop over time. Do you actually believe Irish people have had the same accent for thousands of years?? No. It developed. And it will continue to develop. How it develops will depend on what's influencing it. If that's American tv, then so be it. Who gives a f*ck. If it's not an American influence it'll be some other influence. Deal with it and move on.

Duggy747 · 29-11-2013 11:11AM

I'd prefer it that instead of people using a plain American accent, they started talking like Christopher Walken.

"I.................haven't KILLED anyone since................19.............*whisper* 84................"

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 29-11-2013 11:11AM

BMJD wrote: »

anything is better than a Cork accent, I wouldn't be complaining

Oh yeah totes agree with you here loike cause the north inner city Dublin accent sounds omg amazeballs, sooo classy loike, oh, and we have the wonderful D4 accent too loike of course.

RikkFlair · 29-11-2013 11:20AM

Duggy747 wrote: »

I'd prefer it that instead of people using a plain American accent, they started talking like Christopher Walken.

"I.................haven't KILLED anyone since................19.............*whisper* 84................"

I'd prefer Jeremy Irons accent in Die Hard 3

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 29-11-2013 11:22AM

whirlpool wrote: »

This same topic gets a new thread about once a month.

Look, it's time to get the f*ck over it. Accents develop over time. Do you actually believe Irish people have had the same accent for thousands of years?? No. It developed. And it will continue to develop. How it develops will depend on what's influencing it. If that's American tv, then so be it. Who gives a f*ck. If it's not an American influence it'll be some other influence. Deal with it and move on.

Accents used to develop 'naturally' over time both here and elsewhere. Provided your family hasn't moved about too much, you probably sound a little similar to your parents, and they to theirs, and they to theirs and so on. What people find interesting about this is that an American twang has sprung up in certain parts of the country in the current generation.

It's a really interesting modern phenomenon and is worthy of discussion and examination in my opinion.

AnonoBoy · 29-11-2013 11:26AM

dgt wrote: »

... Like yer wan going into a lecture with a suitcase talking to some guy (probably in the friendzone) saying how she was from cork and lives up but in a put on accent

What? Who's yer wan? Is this a scene from an ad or something?

Finton90 · 29-11-2013 11:33AM

Completely agree op, it not just the accent though Irish society in general is becoming more americanised. Go to a college house party and everyone is sitting around drinking out of those red american party cups as if they were steve stifler or van wilder, wearing baseball caps of a team they have never heard of.

Obviously the reason for this is dumb people feeling they have to ape everything they see on tv.

BMJD · 29-11-2013 11:36AM

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

Oh yeah totes agree with you here loike cause the north inner city Dublin accent sounds omg amazeballs, sooo classy loike, oh, and we have the wonderful D4 accent too loike of course.

shut yer bleedin mou ye sssssssssssssssap

Birneybau · 29-11-2013 11:37AM

Totes amazeballs.

That's so L.A.

Dravokivich · 29-11-2013 11:37AM

Finton90 wrote: »

Completely agree op, it not just the accent though Irish society in general is becoming more americanised. Go to a college house party and everyone is sitting around drinking out of those red american party cups as if they were steve stifler or van wilder, wearing baseball caps of a team they have never heard of.

Obviously the reason for this is dumb people feeling they have to ape everything they see on tv.

Not so they don't have to do washing up after no?

Finton90 · 29-11-2013 11:41AM

Dravokivich wrote: »

Not so they don't have to do washing up after no?

Drinking out of the can. The good old fashioned way.:)

Paulie Gualtieri · 29-11-2013 11:43AM

Dravokivich wrote: »

Not so they don't have to do washing up after no?

Just in case you need to stock up dude

m.ebay.ie/itm/400584390339?nav=SEARCH&sbk=1

Herb Powell · 29-11-2013 11:45AM

whirlpool wrote: »

This same topic gets a new thread about once a month.

Look, it's time to get the f*ck over it. Accents develop over time. Do you actually believe Irish people have had the same accent for thousands of years?? No. It developed. And it will continue to develop. How it develops will depend on what's influencing it. If that's American tv, then so be it. Who gives a f*ck. If it's not an American influence it'll be some other influence. Deal with it and move on.

Nah, it's fucckin annoying like

cantdecide · 29-11-2013 11:47AM

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

Oh yeah totes agree with you here loike cause the north inner city Dublin accent sounds omg amazeballs, sooo classy loike, oh, and we have the wonderful D4 accent too loike of course.

Saw a car the other day. A jag iirc. Reg was 08 - D4. A little gawk came out.

duchalla · 29-11-2013 11:47AM

BMJD wrote: »

anything is better than a Cork accent, I wouldn't be complaining

Have ya heard the Dublin accent latey??? (and I'm not even from Cork boi...)

Davidius · 29-11-2013 11:50AM

whirlpool wrote: »

This same topic gets a new thread about once a month.

Look, it's time to get the f*ck over it. Accents develop over time. Do you actually believe Irish people have had the same accent for thousands of years?? No. It developed. And it will continue to develop. How it develops will depend on what's influencing it. If that's American tv, then so be it. Who gives a f*ck. If it's not an American influence it'll be some other influence. Deal with it and move on.

I still think it's put on by a lot of people, particularly teenagers and more usually young women. Having been raised with American television and cultural influence there's no doubt my own vocabulary and prosody have been affected. Some people take the piss however, and use very obviously mimicked inflections and turns of phrase. The people I knew who did this the most were usually the "punk rock" types and it was very noticeable when they'd have a sibling only slightly older than them with a normal Irish accent. In college there was a disproportionate number of girls speaking in faux-American accents which would slip when they spoke a bit too fast or got a bit drunk.

hfallada · 29-11-2013 11:52AM

Im from Dublin and I can understand non-nationals speaking broken english. But I find it never impossible to understand a Louth or some Cork accents. I think people put on the American accent so people can understand them

29-11-2013 11:57AM

The Irish accent and American accent just aren't that different. I'm often mistaken for American here in the UK just because I pronounce my r's and don't have a specific regional Irish accent (lived in 4 different counties and spent most of my childhood outside Ireland anyway). Some Nordie accents can sound surprisingly American as well. There was a girl from Belfast on my Masters here in London and everyone was always asking where in the US she was from.

salacious crumb · 29-11-2013 11:58AM

Birneybau wrote: »

Totes amazeballs.

That's so L.A.M.E

Fixed

salacious crumb · 29-11-2013 12:00PM

duchalla wrote: »

Have ya heard the Dublin accent latey??? (and I'm not even from Cork boi...)

Which Dublin accent is this then? Balbriggan? Swords? Ballymun? Ballyfermot? Sandyford? Foxrock? Tallaght? Hmm? Hmmmmmm? :pac:

Alun · 29-11-2013 12:00PM

Lailah Screeching Mouthwash wrote: »

The Irish accent and American accent just aren't that different. I'm often mistaken for American here in the UK just because I pronounce my r's and don't have a specific regional Irish accent (lived in 4 different counties and spent most of my childhood outside Ireland anyway). Some Nordie accents can sound surprisingly American as well. There was a girl from Belfast on my Masters here in London and everyone was always asking where in the US she was from.

That's very true. Many aspects of American accents probably derive from those of the first Irish immigrants anyway.

holystungun9 · 29-11-2013 12:03PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gLMSf4afzo

Dravokivich · 29-11-2013 12:05PM

Finton90 wrote: »

Drinking out of the can. The good old fashioned way.:)

Well, a keg is just a really big can! :pac:

force eleven · 29-11-2013 12:08PM

I always wondered why UK or Irish mainstream vocals always have an American accent.

pablohoney87 · 29-11-2013 12:21PM

I have spent most of my life travelling between Antrim and Dublin between the 2 halves of my family. As a result the accent has become a little blurred and everyone who meets me first sh1tes on about how I sound american except for people from Antrim and Donegal strangely

The majority of people who speak who tell me I speak with american accent I will as where abouts in America do I sound like I'm from. They cant answer where as the americanised D4 accent does kinda sound like the overly aristocratic west coast american accent.

Rambled on a bit with my point but the blurring of your accent into no noticeable accent happens dopes will often just label it american. The more you travel the more your accent will blur regardless of where you go. People have labelled it the "mid atlantic" accent (another term I hate). Now that I am in a job where I have to talk to people all over the world, speaking in a very clearly with as little an accent as possible has stood to me and I'd much rather it over any of the accents I hear travelling from Neilstown to Sandyford everyday.

cantdecide · 29-11-2013 12:21PM

force eleven wrote: »

I always wondered why UK or Irish mainstream vocals always have an American accent.

Or when they use words like "side walk" instead of footpath...

American accent

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