Conor McGregor?

newmug · 18-02-2015 12:44AM #1

I'm not into MMA, but I came across this fella called Conor McGregor, who has a mix between a Dublin accent and some sort of Hispanic accent. Whats the story weet ees aksint?

Gatling · 18-02-2015 12:46AM

Here we go again

Karl Stein · 18-02-2015 12:52AM

Conor McGregor is an excellent fighter with an intriguing style.
Conor McGregor is an incredibly dedicated athlete.
Conor McGregor is brilliant at generating hype around his fights.
Conor McGregor's next fight is a title shot that might be one of the UFC's biggest PPV events.
Conor McGregor will be a wealthy man whether he wins or loses.

Hande hoche! · 18-02-2015 12:54AM

Show business.

RWCNT · 18-02-2015 12:54AM

I think its because he's speaking slowly in order to be understood by foreign folks. Its the exact voice some fellas from Clondalkin used to use to order when I worked in Domino's.

Robbo · 18-02-2015 12:54AM

If he didn't exist, Joe.ie would have to invent him.

Guy:Incognito · 18-02-2015 12:55AM

Never heard of him. Has he been in anything I've seen? Eastenders maybe?

Joeseph Balls · 18-02-2015 12:55AM

newmug wrote: »

I'm not into MMA, but I came across this fella called Conor McGregor, who has a mix between a Dublin accent and some sort of Hispanic accent. Whats the story weet ees aksint?

Strong dub accent, asked to soften it down for non Irish viewers, hence the slower dub accent with slight American twang.
It's a business and its working.

Gatling · 18-02-2015 12:56AM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Never heard of him. Has he been in anything I've seen? Eastenders maybe?

Dot cottons toyboy lover

Guy:Incognito · 18-02-2015 12:57AM

Gatling wrote: »

Dot cottons toyboy lover

Yeah, think I can picture him now.

Naos · 18-02-2015 12:58AM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Never heard of him. Has he been in anything I've seen? Eastenders maybe?

Sarcasm?

Tefral · 18-02-2015 01:00AM

Naos wrote: »

Sarcasm?

So the big business American for'nors can understand him.

Naos · 18-02-2015 01:01AM

cronin_j wrote: »

So the big business American for'nors can understand him.

Quoted the wrong person there I think...

Slattsy · 18-02-2015 01:02AM

Total twat.

Copa Mundial · 18-02-2015 01:02AM

"I whoop people for truckloads of cash!"

Living the dream.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 18-02-2015 01:15AM

Business.. I know him well, we go back probably ten years ~ and IRL his accent sounds just like any other working class Dub.

He's actually a very decent bloke, don't let the show business sh*t fool you, he's just playing the game very well.

Mocha Joe · 18-02-2015 01:19AM

Juliet Abundant Metro wrote: »

Business.. I know him well, we go back probably ten years ~ and IRL his accent sounds just like any other working class Dub.

He's actually a very decent bloke, don't let the show business sh*t fool you, he's just playing the game very well.

Nobody asked who knows him and how long you go back?

Nodin · 18-02-2015 01:33AM

Mocha Joe wrote: »

Nobody asked who knows him and how long you go back?

He was interrupting the usual flow of crap with some facts.

Yamanoto · 18-02-2015 01:46AM

Juliet Abundant Metro wrote: »

his accent sounds just like any other working class Dub.

Really?

Some of his cadence and inflection don't sound typical to me - there's almost a kind of stylised staccato to his speech that seems deliberate (to my ears anyhoo). The Dub accent is certainly in there, but the pattern of speech is almost akin to how a fluent non-anglophone would deliver English.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PBUo6wiowQ

kneemos · 18-02-2015 01:49AM

Yamanoto wrote: »

Really?

Some of his cadence and inflection don't sound typical to me - there's almost a kind of stylised staccato to his speech that seems deliberate (to my ears anyhoo). The Dub accent is certainly in there, but the pattern of speech is almost akin to how a fluent non-anglophone would deliver English.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PBUo6wiowQ

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwweeeeewewwwwwwwwwwwweereeeeewwwwwwe.

FloatingVoter · 18-02-2015 02:00AM

I thought this thread was about Conor MacLeod. Tell that nimrod I'll have his head off if he's not careful.

eternal · 18-02-2015 02:02AM

Savage bod in tracker bottoms. That's all that really matters.

AllGunsBlazing · 18-02-2015 02:03AM

Himself and Brian Kerr should co-host their own chat show.

darced · 18-02-2015 02:04AM

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kneemos · 18-02-2015 02:06AM

darced wrote: »

Conor McGregor is also a bit of a dickk,lets be truthful about it.

Why?

Karl Stein · 18-02-2015 02:08AM

Yamanoto wrote: »

Really?

If you check out one of his interviews well before he was being interviewed in the US regularly he has a pretty full-on Dub accent. I'd imagine CMcG, as the self-promoter he is, knows well that he has to tone down his accent when being interviewed for a wider audience than Dubland.

There's a big difference between CMcG the man and CMcG the brand.

Yamanoto · 18-02-2015 02:09AM

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

Himself and Brian Kerr should co-host their own chat show.

...handing over to Brush & Roddy Collins intermittently, to see how the coddle's coming along.

Strumms · 18-02-2015 02:11AM

Not interested in MMA, how good he is as a fighter and at the show is side of things all be it he has to be doing something right on both fronts... Whenever I see him or hear him on TV it's just total cringe time... That accent wtf ?

darced · 18-02-2015 02:11AM

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Andersonisgod · 18-02-2015 02:14AM

darced wrote: »

Calling people Nazi's,hillbillies,rednecks,skinny Favela kids,mocking peoples appearance and then getting badly offended when he gets a bit back.

Great fighter but I wouldn't pretend he is not a bit of an idiot.

I think we are even going a bit far calling him a "great fighter" ironically if I were going to define a great modern day fighter it would be his next opponent, Jose Aldo.

kneemos · 18-02-2015 02:14AM

darced wrote: »

Calling people Nazi's,hillbillies,rednecks,skinny Favela kids,mocking peoples appearance and then getting badly offended when he gets a bit back.

Great fighter but I wouldn't pretend he is not a bit of an idiot.

Trash talk?

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