The D4 Accent is a disease...

Neon_Lights · 23-08-2014 10:07PM #1

How does a person from central finglas or cabra end up with a d4 accent, such pretence annoys me... I hear nowadays wagons all over touting this intollerable ball of pretence... even down in the rural places of cork and limerick there is a variant...does anybody agree ... loike?

The Moldy Gowl · 23-08-2014 10:08PM

You face is a diesease

Neon_Lights · 23-08-2014 10:09PM

Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »

You face is a diesease

I cannot even start to begin to pick out whats wrong with that response haha....

UCDVet · 23-08-2014 10:11PM

Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »

You face is a diesease

My face is an STD. Just sayin

mikemac1 · 23-08-2014 10:14PM

Neon_Lights wrote: »

How does a person from central finglas or cabra end up with a d4 accent,

Because it's the same accent as Ringsend and Irishtown

Neon_Lights · 23-08-2014 10:14PM

Magnate wrote: »

Makes just as much sense as the OP...

I can just imagine you in an art gallery judging art in a linen cum tweed suit lollygagging with a pretentious glass of vino.... stick to that

23-08-2014 10:14PM

But i dont know which is worse.

D4 or finglas ?

Either way... dublin me arse. Bad enough we have to commute to the kip but also listen to arseholes left right and center !

Joe Duffy.. · 23-08-2014 10:14PM

It totes is, loike. # disease.

23-08-2014 10:15PM

Neon_Lights wrote: »

How does a person from central finglas or cabra end up with a d4 accent, such pretence annoys me... I hear nowadays wagons all over touting this intollerable ball of pretence... even down in the rural places of cork and limerick there is a variant...does anybody agree ... loike?

So is a D4 accent okay if you're actually from D4?

Or is it necessary to adopt some other accent to avoid ridicule?

Neon_Lights · 23-08-2014 10:18PM

Candie wrote: »

So is a D4 accent okay if you're actually from D4?

Or is it necessary to adopt some other accent to avoid ridicule?

Not necessarily, but it should be kept in quarantine....

speaking about accents do you hear the hack of nadine coyle's accent now...

Trebor176 · 23-08-2014 10:20PM

Soooo, roysh, the D4 Heads are a going breed, it would seem. I have no idea where this accent came from and how it has developed so much in the last few years. It can be, ohmygod, soooo headwrecking listening to some of these, the girls in particular, prattling on at, loike, 100 miles per hour? Every conversation is guaranteed to have "ohmygod" in it at some point, and the overuse of "loike," "basically," etc. "He was, loike," "she was, loike," and "we were, loike" are usually common features too.

23-08-2014 10:22PM

I'd just like to say that my Dad is the highest paid partner in KPMG.

Ok I'm off to serve my ban now.

Andy-Pandy · 23-08-2014 10:22PM

I was raised and went to school in Ballsbridge and I know nobody who spoke with the famous d4 accent. It's not a d4 accent.

Neon_Lights · 23-08-2014 10:24PM

Andy-Pandy wrote: »

I was raised and went to school in Ballsbridge and I know nobody who spoke with the famous d4 accent. It's not a d4 accent.

hmm what would you define it as being then?

Andy-Pandy · 23-08-2014 10:27PM

Neon_Lights wrote: »

hmm what would you define it as being then?

An accent put on by teenagers, culchies and folk who are unhappy about their own accent. No grown up from d4 speaks like that.

Macavity. · 23-08-2014 10:30PM

Andy-Pandy wrote: »

An accent put on by teenagers, culchies and folk who are unhappy about their own accent. No grown up from d4 speaks like that.

No culchie speaks like that either, in fairness.

wingnut · 23-08-2014 10:32PM

Everything I know about the D4 accent I learned from Ross O'Carroll Kelly

nxbyveromdwjpg · 23-08-2014 10:33PM

The worst part of the whole thing is the prevalence of these reoccurring boring threads about it on boards.ie, they just come back again over and over, then comes the post with "loike", "roysh" again, and on, and on.

How about something more original, like a drugs debate, the dole, or a rant about the bankers.

Shakespeare's Sister · 23-08-2014 10:34PM

I think the OP means that really forced accent that must be just exhausting to enunciate all the time. I know people from affluent parts of Dublin who have a "posh" accent but it's not that - their accent is natural, and not painful to listen to.
The one I'm thinking of is found all over Dublin, not just D4, and it's put on by people (women mostly) who move to Dublin from the country. I know one woman from Waterford who does it and I don't know how she keeps it up.

Andy-Pandy · 23-08-2014 10:36PM

Macavity. wrote: »

No culchie speaks like that either, in fairness.

That's my point, it'd not a real accent, it's put on non sence that for some reason has been labelled the d4 accent. I have a d4 accent, it's a typical neutral south Dublin accent.

23-08-2014 10:54PM

It's a Spin 1038 accent. ''It's Becky here with all your pordy tunes''

zcorpian88 · 24-08-2014 03:27AM

That accent seriously gets on my wick, the very reason why I hate taking public transport when visiting Dublin.

One time I was on a bus in Dublin heading to Foxrock and my girlfriend was with me, I was trying to talk to her and there was 4 of these young Triners arts students sitting up front talking obnoxiously and very loudly to the point where I couldn't hear myself talk to the girlfriend and they were spewing all sorts of shyte on how great their academics were and getting 550-600 points in the leaving and calling anyone who got less than 500 a retard. I was just sitting there asking the girlfriend "How much longer till we get to Foxrock? I may bash their heads together!" The girlfriend was like "I know, this feckin put on accent, deep breaths, deep breaths!"

Another day I had to get a connecting bus from Dublin to Mayo and there was two D4 lads sitting behind me and the conversation was about some house party one of them had "Barry I was soooo locked last noyt at the house party, sorry I broke that bottle of your Dad's single malt, tell you Dad I'm sorry" Followed by a reply of "Not a bother Oisin, Dad has three more in the cellar" followed by Oisins reply "Your Dad is such a ledgebag!" They were quite a bit out of touch. They got off the bus around Liffey Valley thank Christ, that day I forgot my earphones and I didn't want to hear that shyte for a 4 hour journey.

Can't believe it's more expensive to live there than anywhere else in the country, I'd want a couple of hundred euro off my rent if I had to listen to that drivel every day coming from people.

CatFromHue · 24-08-2014 03:41AM

I'm always amazed at how much focus there is on D4 and it's accent in Ireland.

Richard Hillman · 24-08-2014 06:10AM

zcorpian88 wrote: »

That accent seriously gets on my wick, the very reason why I hate taking public transport when visiting Dublin.

One time I was on a bus in Dublin heading to Foxrock and my girlfriend was with me, I was trying to talk to her and there was 4 of these young Triners arts students sitting up front talking obnoxiously and very loudly to the point where I couldn't hear myself talk to the girlfriend and they were spewing all sorts of shyte on how great their academics were and getting 550-600 points in the leaving and calling anyone who got less than 500 a retard. I was just sitting there asking the girlfriend "How much longer till we get to Foxrock? I may bash their heads together!" The girlfriend was like "I know, this feckin put on accent, deep breaths, deep breaths!"

Another day I had to get a connecting bus from Dublin to Mayo and there was two D4 lads sitting behind me and the conversation was about some house party one of them had "Barry I was soooo locked last noyt at the house party, sorry I broke that bottle of your Dad's single malt, tell you Dad I'm sorry" Followed by a reply of "Not a bother Oisin, Dad has three more in the cellar" followed by Oisins reply "Your Dad is such a ledgebag!" They were quite a bit out of touch. They got off the bus around Liffey Valley thank Christ, that day I forgot my earphones and I didn't want to hear that shyte for a 4 hour journey.

Can't believe it's more expensive to live there than anywhere else in the country, I'd want a couple of hundred euro off my rent if I had to listen to that drivel every day coming from people.

Any more made up stories?

Lapin · 24-08-2014 06:55AM

Neon_Lights wrote: »

How does a person from central finglas or cabra end up with a d4 accent... loike?

Proximity.

Finglas and Cabra are in the same county as D4.

I can't understand how young wans from the other 25 counties always end up with that accent.

fatknacker · 24-08-2014 07:11AM

It's quite a simple and infectious accent to put on if you want to sound exaggeratedly posh. I guess it just sticks to some people easily, mostly the young and impressionable.

LorMal · 24-08-2014 09:31AM

zcorpian88 wrote: »

That accent seriously gets on my wick, the very reason why I hate taking public transport when visiting Dublin.

One time I was on a bus in Dublin heading to Foxrock and my girlfriend was with me, I was trying to talk to her and there was 4 of these young Triners arts students sitting up front talking obnoxiously and very loudly to the point where I couldn't hear myself talk to the girlfriend and they were spewing all sorts of shyte on how great their academics were and getting 550-600 points in the leaving and calling anyone who got less than 500 a retard. I was just sitting there asking the girlfriend "How much longer till we get to Foxrock? I may bash their heads together!" The girlfriend was like "I know, this feckin put on accent, deep breaths, deep breaths!"

Another day I had to get a connecting bus from Dublin to Mayo and there was two D4 lads sitting behind me and the conversation was about some house party one of them had "Barry I was soooo locked last noyt at the house party, sorry I broke that bottle of your Dad's single malt, tell you Dad I'm sorry" Followed by a reply of "Not a bother Oisin, Dad has three more in the cellar" followed by Oisins reply "Your Dad is such a ledgebag!" They were quite a bit out of touch. They got off the bus around Liffey Valley thank Christ, that day I forgot my earphones and I didn't want to hear that shyte for a 4 hour journey.

Can't believe it's more expensive to live there than anywhere else in the country, I'd want a couple of hundred euro off my rent if I had to listen to that drivel every day coming from people.

Where are you from? What's your accent like?

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 24-08-2014 09:34AM

I have a Drogheda 4 accent, and it's fcukin' gawjuss.

experiMental · 24-08-2014 09:34AM

This is banter on an epic level.

If your accent is in danger of being replaced by a D4 accent, then you gotta start a campaign. Or make a video featuring that accent, like the lad who made a video about a failed driving test.

bumper234 · 24-08-2014 09:36AM

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

But i dont know which is worse.

D4 or finglas ?

Either way... dublin me arse. Bad enough we have to commute to the kip but also listen to arseholes left right and center !

No one is forcing you

LorMal · 24-08-2014 12:55PM

CatFromHue wrote: »

I'm always amazed at how much focus there is on D4 and it's accent in Ireland.

Its very parochial. There seems to be a lot of bitterness aimed at the imaginary 'Dem in D4'. I bet most of them don't even know where D4 is.
The derogatory use of 'D4' was coined by a journalist (I cant remember which one) who was rightly highlighting a cozy cartel between RTE, certain business insiders and certain politicians (for example the panel on Marion Finucaines show each Sunday).

Now it used by every Bogger who has a chip on his shoulder abut Dublin.

There is an irritating accent that has emerged in recent timess ('Dort' 'Coirke'..etc) - but it has not really emerged from D4 - I hear it a lot on Newstalk especially - (Tara Duggan!!) - and the AA Roadwatch crowd.

The D4 Accent is a disease...

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