People that change their accent

mfceiling · 20-05-2014 11:01PM

hfallada wrote: »

You change it to fit into the people around you. I did a 4 week exchange in Germany and I came home sounding like Arnold Schwarznegger

I'm in dublin 13 years and i still sound like i fell out of tyrone this morning!!

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

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.

It is a nice accent...i've spent 3 months working with a man from clonskeagh who's in his mid 50's....lovely soft accent.

A Greedy Algorithm · 20-05-2014 11:02PM

I don't mean to disrespect anyone with this but it is something i have always wondered.

Why do gay men sometimes talk in high pitched voices or like women? I know plenty of men who talked normally but when they came out their voices became a lot different in that it became more feminine.

Hotale.com · 20-05-2014 11:03PM

A Greedy Algorithm wrote: »

I don't mean to disrespect anyone with this it is something i have always wondered.

Why do gay men sometimes talk in high pitched voices or like women? I know plenty of men who talked normally but when they came out their voices became a lot different in that they are more feminine.

This could get fun.

major bill · 20-05-2014 11:05PM

A Greedy Algorithm wrote: »

I don't mean to disrespect anyone with this it is something i have always wondered.

Why do gay men sometimes talk in high pitched voices or like women? I know plenty of men who talked normally but when they came out their voices became a lot different in that it became more feminine.

Because they are Faaaaabulous!!!

meoklmrk91 · 20-05-2014 11:09PM

My aunt flips between an Irish accent and an English accent depending on who she is talking too and what about, talking to the family about old times, you would swear she never left, talking to her English friends about the little darlings you would swear she never set foot in Ireland. Talking about buying their new house and the Beamer to anyone and its the English accent again. She's an insufferable gowl regardless of the accent she's sporting.

My father however is hilarious, no matter where you are from be it Wales, Brazil or Vietnam, if you are foreign you get his terrible faux American accent and he shouts at you, it is one of the greatest things you will ever see.

Muise... · 20-05-2014 11:09PM

A Greedy Algorithm wrote: »

I don't mean to disrespect anyone with this but it is something i have always wondered.

Why do gay men sometimes talk in high pitched voices or like women? I know plenty of men who talked normally but when they came out their voices became a lot different in that it became more feminine.

Not all gay men speak like that. Those who do probably had been putting on a fake voice until they came out, when they would start openly socialising with other gay people, thus naturally picking up the slang and accent that develop when any group get together.

cactusgal · 20-05-2014 11:09PM

I don't understand people who change their accents. I can't imagine making the effort to do such a thing. I'm American, have lived in Dublin for many years, but still talk the way I always have, pretty much.

What does drive me nuts, even though people don't mean any harm, is when people, after finding out that I've lived in Ireland for a long time, say 'Well, you haven't lost your accent!' Why would I, where would it go?

anncoates · 20-05-2014 11:13PM

An old school working class Dublin accent is actually quite nice and not like the more modern one.

Legs.Eleven · 20-05-2014 11:13PM

When I'm shitfaced, I start talking in Louth accent (or so I've been told).

Wazdakka · 20-05-2014 11:13PM

I dunno...

That guy from Police Academy was pretty cool.

Hotale.com · 20-05-2014 11:14PM

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

When I'm shitfaced, I start talking in Louth accent.

There's a Louth accent?

Hotale.com · 20-05-2014 11:14PM

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

When I'm shitfaced, I start talking in Louth accent.

Or was that a pun? :P

anncoates · 20-05-2014 11:15PM

Hotale.com wrote: »

There's a Louth accent?

Staaah Baaaah.

major bill · 20-05-2014 11:16PM

Dubliners that say Buke rather than book are a dying breed

Legends!!

furiousox · 20-05-2014 11:18PM

A Greedy Algorithm wrote: »

I don't mean to disrespect anyone with this but it is something i have always wondered.
Why do gay men sometimes talk in high pitched voices or like women? I know plenty of men who talked normally but when they came out their voices became a lot different in that it became more feminine.

Are you sure you're not thinking of men with a Cork accent?

fleet_admiral · 20-05-2014 11:20PM

furiousox wrote: »

Are you sure you're not thinking of men with a Cork accent?

ever listen through a pillow to a pig in a slaughterhouse? Thats the cark accent

Shakespeare's Sister · 20-05-2014 11:20PM

I like the old-skool Dublin way of saying the zoo: "the eh-zoo"

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

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.

Any corner of Ireland, not just the west. I've experience of this from women from Tipperary, Waterford, Cork and very far West Cork (all working in those sectors). I've found out this information after asking all of them (innocently) "What part of Dublin are you from?"

I knew a girl years ago who had quite a strong Cork accent, and she moved to Dublin (Crumlin) to live with her boyfriend. I bumped into her about six months after she moved to Dublin and it was all "Hiwya?! Yer lookin' well so y'are!" Real stage Dublin Fair City/Roddy Doyle stuff. I seriously doubt it was natural.

we'llallhavetea · 20-05-2014 11:20PM

but, half of my material is talking in ridiculous accents..

Mariasofia · 20-05-2014 11:21PM

furiousox wrote: »

Are you sure you're not thinking of men with a Cork accent?

Yeah....like I know a fella and hes straight(as in hes married with two kids) and he has the highest voice Ive ever heard! I always thought he was a closet case!

riclad · 20-05-2014 11:28PM

IF you live in a certain place, you may change your accent after a few years, without meaning to do it.
we irish have our slang ,i think its annoying to use america slang like lol ,
awesome etc

Many actors go to london, and adopt a neutral middle class accent .
IE they lose their regional accent so they can get a wide range of roles.
I think when you are over 30 , its very hard to change your accent.

D1stant · 20-05-2014 11:29PM

Sky King wrote: »

Only if something inspires awe. Any other use is castration of the term. A sandwich or a pair of trainers has never inspired me with awe.

Does the Son of God inspire Awe?

There's a funny story about the famous actor John Wayne that applies to our message today. John Wayne was playing a cameo role in the movie “The Greatest Story Every Told.” In fact he had just one line in the whole movie – but it was a significant line never the less. He was to say, "Truly this was the Son of God." After they shot the scene the first time, the director, George Stevens told Wayne that he lacked emphasis and expression when he said the line. He reminded Wayne that he was not talking about an ordinary man – he was talking about Jesus Christ. Stevens said, "John, you've got to deliver the line with a little more awe." Well, on the next take, John Wayne boldly delivered the line by saying: "Aw, truly this was the Son of God."

* May be an urban (rural?) myth

geddylee · 20-05-2014 11:29PM

A lot of people from drogheda that work in Dublin are all starting to put on a d4 accent and at the weekends come home to drogheda and look down on the dwada accent,who then start talking in a finglas accent!!!!

Hotale.com · 20-05-2014 11:29PM

Magaggie wrote: »

I like the old-skool Dublin way of saying the zoo: "the eh-zoo"

Any corner of Ireland, not just the west. I've experience of this from women from Tipperary, Waterford, Cork and very far West Cork (all working in those sectors). I've found out this information after asking all of them (innocently) "What part of Dublin are you from?"

I knew a girl years ago who had quite a strong Cork accent, and she moved to Dublin (Crumlin) to live with her boyfriend. I bumped into her about six months after she moved to Dublin and it was all "Hiwya?! Yer lookin' well so y'are!" Real stage Dublin Fair City/Roddy Doyle stuff. I seriously doubt it was natural.

Do people have no respect for their roots? I couldn't imagine ever abandoning anything about my Cork heritage intentionally.

I don't want to sound like a stereotypical Corkonian, but if you're from Cork and try to intentionally make yourself sound like you're from Dublin you need to take a good long look at yourself.

FearDark · 20-05-2014 11:31PM

Knew a girl who moved to London for two years and she came back on a holiday home one time with the thickest cockney accent Arry' Redknapp would be proud of. The holiday turned into a year and bit by bit she "lost" her accent, she's still knocking around town and the accent is back to normal.

Twat.

I had uncles live there for 30/40 years and they never changed their accent.

geddylee · 20-05-2014 11:32PM

Agree 100 percent. Do people really feel that ashamed from were they come from.

Shakespeare's Sister · 20-05-2014 11:32PM

I knew a girl who moved to London and in months she had an English accent. But it was a *northern* English accent...

jimgoose · 20-05-2014 11:34PM

Sorcha is a focking cont. Everybody knows that.

Hotale.com · 20-05-2014 11:35PM

Magaggie wrote: »

I knew a girl who moved to London and in months she had an English accent. But it was a *northern* English accent...

Addicted to Emmerdale?

vitani · 20-05-2014 11:35PM

daithi1970 wrote: »

Some accent changes are involuntary..I once worked with a guy in Ennis who had a very strong dublin accent, my folks couldn't understand why I came back from Clare that summer sounding like I had walked off the set of Fair City...

Like a bad actor?

SaveOurLyric · 20-05-2014 11:36PM

D1stant wrote: »

Does the Son of God inspire Awe?

There's a funny story about the famous actor John Wayne that applies to our message today. John Wayne was playing a cameo role in the movie “The Greatest Story Every Told.” In fact he had just one line in the whole movie – but it was a significant line never the less. He was to say, "Truly this was the Son of God." After they shot the scene the first time, the director, George Stevens told Wayne that he lacked emphasis and expression when he said the line. He reminded Wayne that he was not talking about an ordinary man – he was talking about Jesus Christ. Stevens said, "John, you've got to deliver the line with a little more awe." Well, on the next take, John Wayne boldly delivered the line by saying: "Aw, truly this was the Son of God."

* May be an urban (rural?) myth

I thought he put the 'awe' into the 'Gawd'.
Judge for yourself :

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

People that change their accent

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