People that change their accent

OMG

Mariasofia wrote: »

Im always totes morto loike when someone does that!!

Omg. I'm Loike totes the same. It's Loike omg get a life you frickin jerk #whogivesafcukloikeomg

I've noticed that women from the Whest of Ireland who move to Dublin have a tendency to lose the native brogue once they've spent a few months up in the Big Smoke. A far more common occurrence if the daughter of the soil in question is working in: morketing, proporty or finance.

There's a fascinating website that an irish linguist has... I'll see if I can find it and post the link.

Basically he spent years recording how people in Ireland speak by getting them to read a standardised sentence into a recorder.

He then comments on the accents according to various technical criteria (which I don't understand) but he discussed the old school D4 accent [Oim gewing to pork the core near the dort station] which believe it or not has all but dissapeared and been replaced by the nu-school american valley girl accent... with the stupid questioning intonation (like when every sentence sounds like a question? even when it's not?) and the fronting of the o sounds (the cainty caincil are on the saith baind raindabish)

Needless to say, his opinions on the subject, while restrained and ostensibly neutral, do imply to me that he regards the purveyors of this accent as complete fuktards. Which they are.

Edit: his name is raymond hickey and here's his site

https://www.uni-due.de/~lan300/HICKEY.htm

you could spend hours on that if you were interested in it

Sky King wrote: »

There's a fascinating website that an irish linguist has... I'll see if I can find it and post the link.

Basically he spent years recording how people in Ireland speak by getting them to read a standardised sentence into a recorder.

He then comments on the accents according to various technical criteria (which I don't understand) but he discussed the old school D4 accent [Oim gewing to pork the core near the dort station] which believe it or not has all but dissapeared and been replaced by the nu-school american valley girl accent... with the stupid questioning intonation (like when every sentence sounds like a question? even when it's not?) and the fronting of the o sounds (the cainty caincil are on the saith baind raindabish)

Needless to say, his opinions on the subject, while restrained and ostensibly neutral, do imply to me that he regards the purveyors of this accent as complete fuktards. Which they are.

Edit: his name is raymond hickey and here's his site

https://www.uni-due.de/~lan300/HICKEY.htm

you could spend hours on that if you were interested in it

I work with a couple of lads from South Dublin. In their late 50's/early 60's. From places like Clonskeagh,Dundrum and Milltown. They have an accent that is becoming increasingly rare. It's the middle-class South Dublin accent. It's rather pleasant on the ear to be honest.

My mother in law is always at that. We were having lunch a few weeks ago in loftus hall in Wexford and got chatting to a Dub who asked where we were from. She replied in her best Hyacinth bucket accent 'Terenure'. I butted in 'but you are from Finglas, you married a man from terenure'. She had a face like a bulldog licking piss off a nettle

bb1234567 wrote: »

Its not really very rare the majority of Dubliners have that accent, I live in south dublin and very few people actually talk in the d4 type of accent. Just a few teenage girls who put it on, its not even their natural accent. Most south dublin people just have a sort of neutral sounding accent, youd know theyre from dublin but they dont have skanger accent or d4 accent. Its inbetween.

Same in north Dublin