Unintelligible accents.

zetalambda · 26-07-2014 07:43PM

I was walking past Winters bar in Dundrum one evening a few years ago. There was quite a few groups outside in the seated front area and it sounded like they were all talking French. I was thinking to myself that a lot of French people seem to drink there which is strange as it was around Christmas time and you would only expect hoards of foreigners in the summer. But then I realised that they were not French people but drunk southsiders!

YellowFeather · 26-07-2014 07:53PM

Apparently mine. I'd have a few mates from abroad and I'm conscious to try and speak at a reasonable pace with them. But then I'd get excited about something and start garbling on at a million miles an minute. Happened a while ago and one of the guys said afterwards - I have no idea what you were on about. One of the others said - it's grand. She was just telling one of her stories.

My stories are hilarious!!

On the plus side, I have them all saying 'grand'.

dodderangler · 26-07-2014 07:55PM

Dundalk accent is worst accent I've ever heard.

Sam Kade · 26-07-2014 08:02PM

Lia_lia wrote: »

I'm from Kerry and I can't understand the Kerry accent a lot of the time.

You need to get off the computer and out of the house more often

Ken. · 26-07-2014 08:09PM

Really strong Kerry accents are tough. When any of the Healy-Rae's are on the radio or tv I cannot understand them.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 26-07-2014 08:10PM

I used to work with a Polish guy who'd lived in Italy for ten years and was in the process of learning English in Cork. That was...interesting.

I struggle with some really strong wesht of Ireland accents too but it's mostly the fact that people tend to talk really fast and really low if they have that.

26-07-2014 08:11PM

Sam Kade wrote: »

You need to get off the computer and out of the house more often

I'm just not from the country!

blueser · 26-07-2014 08:12PM

Fat Christy wrote: »

You Cork people, I can't understand ye atal. I just sort of nod and smile. If I'm on the phone it'll be 'Hmmm, yes, sure thang'.

Absolutely. Some of the people Sky have in their call centre down there; you really have to concentrate HARD to understand them. Also, some of those Indian (Asian?) people who call, telling my that my windows PC has a serious problem. One small problem; I use a Mac!

Oink · 26-07-2014 08:24PM

Angie Vast Pasta wrote: »

I struggle with some really strong wesht of Ireland accents too but it's mostly the fact that people tend to talk really fast and really low if they have that.

THANK YOU!! I thought I was going deaf! I simply cannot have a conversation in a pub down there they talk so low. I've even tried my luck at lip-reading...

stefan idiot jones · 26-07-2014 08:49PM

The Ballydesmond accent. The Cork/Kerry frontier, unintelligible.

dd972 · 26-07-2014 08:53PM

Used to work with some, let's say, earthy Glaswegians, ( of the Donegal / c'mon the Bhoys ilk needless to say ) great blokes but needed subtitles.

Oink · 26-07-2014 08:54PM

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

The Ballydesmond accent. The Cork/Kerry frontier, unintelligible.

That's different. If you just move away from the duelling banjos it makes things much easier.
:-)))

harry Bailey esq · 26-07-2014 09:32PM

The folk in west waterford speak funny.Its fairly easy to decipher,but the way they pronounce things weird,and they also use words you won't hear anywhere else. For example he word 'now' is pronounced neeow,really long and drawn out,like a cat purring. It sounds especially weird when its a young woman speaking,its like looking at a dubbed over kung fu film..
lovely people though

Sam Kade · 26-07-2014 10:28PM

Lia_lia wrote: »

I'm just not from the country!

No cities in Kerry

fryup · 26-07-2014 10:32PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaadphJyy50

26-07-2014 10:51PM

Sam Kade wrote: »

No cities in Kerry

There are towns.

On a related note, haven't a clue what these lads are saying!

Teyla Emmagan · 26-07-2014 11:00PM

My Dad's business partner is from Kerry (Tralee, not the wild west). I have known him all my life, but used to be terrified of talking to him as a child/teenager. He'd be chatting away, and I'd just nod my head. I swear, I understood about a quarter of what he was on about. He's a lovely man, but I used to be terrified when he asked me a question. However I have either honed my ear over the years, or he has lost the accent a bit, because I understand about 90% of it now!!

steddyeddy · 26-07-2014 11:05PM

A lecturer we had was Sri Lankan and had a very unique accent.

Sam Kade · 27-07-2014 12:38AM

Lia_lia wrote: »

There are towns.

On a related note, haven't a clue what these lads are saying!

You wouldn't have to go very far in any town in Kerry to reach the countryside

Jaysus just watched that video I could only figure out a few sentences, what's with yourman with the lamb and bottle of milk?

Satriale · 27-07-2014 01:05AM

Lia_lia wrote: »

There are towns.

On a related note, haven't a clue what these lads are saying!

Those lads can speak better English than the queen, they'rejustwindin'yeupforthecraicandtheconfusedlookonye'refaces.

Geomy · 27-07-2014 01:17AM

I think some people who can't understand different accents are ignorant and maybe just a tad thick.

I never had any difficulties understanding any Irish inner city accent, country accents, indian accent, scouse accents, glasweigan accent, manc accents. ...

Take out the cotton wool and listen ffs

Actually I think the hardest accents to make out are the D4 accents, they speak very poor English ;-)

--LOS-- · 27-07-2014 02:07AM

Geomy wrote: »

I think some people who can't understand different accents are ignorant and maybe just a tad thick.

I never had any difficulties understanding any Irish inner city accent, country accents, indian accent, scouse accents, glasweigan accent, manc accents. ...

Take out the cotton wool and listen ffs

Actually I think the hardest accents to make out are the D4 accents, they speak very poor English ;-)

Ah it has a lot to do with how sensitive you are which is in relation to how introverted or extroverted you are. If there's too much background noise I just can't tune in to someone's accent. Its not about not being arsed listening. For me it's more about how much else there is going on at the same time. Around a group of people I find it so hard to catch anything, makes me feel like I'm going deaf.

It's so awkward when you can't catch an accent and you try lip-reading, you try replicating sounds, and you just keep digging a hole for yourself.

I always find it hilarious when an Irish person is on TV and they have subtitles up

Arthur Beesley · 27-07-2014 08:24AM

StormWarrior wrote: »

I assume so, he was definitely Scottish.

Maybe he was Nigerian?

Sam Kade · 27-07-2014 08:25PM

Geomy wrote: »

I think some people who can't understand different accents are ignorant and maybe just a tad thick.

I never had any difficulties understanding any Irish inner city accent, country accents, indian accent, scouse accents, glasweigan accent, manc accents. ...

Take out the cotton wool and listen ffs

Actually I think the hardest accents to make out are the D4 accents, they speak very poor English ;-)

They put on false accents because they thought it might make them seem more important then they fail to recognize their old accents when they hear someone else speaking in their old accent.

twinytwo · 27-07-2014 08:50PM

Forget scottish accents or whatever... I had this massive lump of a man, a Boer from south Africa that had obviously wandered down from the the veld and had managed to make his way to Ireland... Sweet mother of devine god in heaven.. Not if I lived to a hundred and one would I have been able to decifer what the **** he was saying to me.

Frank Lee Midere · 27-07-2014 08:52PM

--LOS-- wrote: »

Ah it has a lot to do with how sensitive you are which is in relation to how introverted or extroverted you are. If there's too much background noise I just can't tune in to someone's accent. Its not about not being arsed listening. For me it's more about how much else there is going on at the same time. Around a group of people I find it so hard to catch anything, makes me feel like I'm going deaf.

It's so awkward when you can't catch an accent and you try lip-reading, you try replicating sounds, and you just keep digging a hole for yourself.

I always find it hilarious when an Irish person is on TV and they have subtitles up

I find myself lip reading in any pub with loud music, particularly a loud base. Bose speakers do my head in.

fleet_admiral · 27-07-2014 09:11PM

Watched the all Ireland semi final 2 years ago in Banna beach in Kerry with a local who was pissed. I literally just nodded and smiled for the whole match when he spoke. I couldnt understand a single word.

27-07-2014 09:50PM

I worked with an Armenian man last year, we chatted for hours every day and had a great laugh.

I still haven't a clue what he said.

Sam Kade · 28-07-2014 01:31PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Watched the all Ireland semi final 2 years ago in Banna beach in Kerry with a local who was pissed. I literally just nodded and smiled for the whole match when he spoke. I couldnt understand a single word.

That's what too much drink will do.

yes there · 28-07-2014 01:40PM

Geomy wrote: »

I think some people who can't understand different accents are ignorant and maybe just a tad thick.

I never had any difficulties understanding any Irish inner city accent, country accents, indian accent, scouse accents, glasweigan accent, manc accents. ...

Take out the cotton wool and listen ffs

Actually I think the hardest accents to make out are the D4 accents, they speak very poor English ;-)

Have to agree with this. Unless someone is talking really fast or using words or phrases unique to them, then you would have to be really thick not to get the gist of what their saying.

Unintelligible accents.

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