Do you ever try to hide your accent

Specialun · 14-04-2015 03:08PM #1

Ive a cork accent and tbh im not a fan of it. Lately i cringe when i hear " alright boi" or "alright laddd"

I try to avoid the usual cork slang and lately in interviews i find myself speaking more slowely as to mask the city/cork slang

Do you have an accent...do you like it

Cork lol I know

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 14-04-2015 03:09PM

Need a translator for your post. Who let Cork people on the internet.

Menas · 14-04-2015 03:10PM

I have one of those neutral accents. People know I am not a dub, but cant tell what part of the country I am from.
I speak a lot slower at work though as I deal with lots of foreign types.

fizzypish · 14-04-2015 03:10PM

I like my accent. Come from near the tipp cork border so a fine Torc/Cip accent. Gets stronger the closer I am to home. The poor Dutch people that have to listen to me have no notion what I'm saying half the time. I've had to develop a pan European accent.

14-04-2015 03:12PM

I have a fairly recognisable accent and there's little point in trying to hide it as it's part of my identity. The sort of thing you're referring to in the OP is more local phraseology than accent. There's nothing wrong with regional accents, it'd be boring if we all sounded the same. Using words that people outside your area don't understand is a different thing.

smash · 14-04-2015 03:14PM

Specialun wrote: »

Ive a cork accent

my condolences

14-04-2015 03:14PM

Not at all, though people have an incredibly hard time placing my accent.

Generic Dreadhead · 14-04-2015 03:18PM

Specialun wrote: »

Ive a cork accent and tbh im not a fan of it. Lately i cringe when i hear " alright boi" or "alright laddd"

I try to avoid the usual cork slang and lately in interviews i find myself speaking more slowely as to mask the city/cork slang

Do you have an accent...do you like it

Cork lol I know

Ah, another person from Cork trying to sound like they are from D4 or California is it?

Yeah, I've had quite enough of your type. :P

You can be from Cork and have a Cork accent that isn't a total scumbag accent you know?

In fact many people from abroad like our accent as it's quite musical apparently.

I'm not ashamed of where I am from and I would think any interviewer who bases a job interview off someones accents is probably hiring for a company I don't want to work for.

14-04-2015 03:19PM

Cormac... wrote: »

Ah, another person from Cork trying to sound like they are from D4 or California is it?

Yeah, I've had quite enough of your type. You can be from Cork and have a Cork accent that isn't a total scumbag accent you know.

In fact many people from abroad like our accent as it's quite musical apparently.

I'm not ashamed of where I am from and I would think any interviewer who bases a job interview off someones accents is probably hiring for a company I don't want to work for.

Moderating your accent to accommodate people who might not be familiar with it, is not the same as being ashamed of it.

Generic Dreadhead · 14-04-2015 03:21PM

Candie wrote: »

Moderating your accent to accommodate people who might not be familiar with it, is not the same as being ashamed of it.

Fair point, though I wasn't trying to imply that the OP was, even though it may have read like that. It was just an aside

ArnoldJRimmer · 14-04-2015 03:22PM

I moved to America a few years ago. After a couple of months of vacant stares, and in some cases straight out refusals to try and understand what I was saying, I adapted a little.

Now everyone takes the p!ss out of me when I go home for having a half Donegal/ half American accent

MarkAnthony · 14-04-2015 03:22PM

Absoluetly, grew up in Oxford that has a very odd working class accent anyway but I inherited my fathers West Country twangs think:

It was a necessity at secondary school to lose that if I ever wanted to lose my virginity. Now my family thinks I pretend to be posh and my friends back home, due to my 15 years here and pronunciation of the number 'tree' (sic), think I've an Irish accent.

whiskeyman · 14-04-2015 03:23PM

Only when I park it in the garage...

/car joke

The Backwards Man · 14-04-2015 03:24PM

Aye shurley haigh

Birneybau · 14-04-2015 03:25PM

Ow Gawd no.

biko · 14-04-2015 03:28PM

Thankfully I always had a flat accent. In my hometown the accent is atrocious, I'm sooo happy I never picked it up.

Boskowski · 14-04-2015 03:28PM

I've got a German Irish hybrid accent people keep telling me and it's something I can't hear myself and I have no control over. I don't realise it at all myself when I'm talking, but when I hear myself on voicemail or so it sounds very much like a German accent to me. More so than I would like but again it's not something I have any control over. :pac:

kfallon · 14-04-2015 03:28PM

I get slagged when I go home for having a 'big Dublin accent'.....yeah I've only been living up here for 14 years :rolleyes:

BeerWolf · 14-04-2015 03:30PM

I sound American...

smash · 14-04-2015 03:37PM

BeerWolf wrote: »

I sound American...

Are you American?

rainbow kirby · 14-04-2015 03:40PM

I have a noticeable Dublin accent, I tend to flatten it out when I'm ordering takeaways, the last time I didn't do that I went to collect it and they had taken my name down as "Sandra" when my name sounds absolutely nothing like that.

Magico Gonzalez · 14-04-2015 03:44PM

Trying to speak Spanish all day with a belfast accent.

Problematic.

Specialun · 14-04-2015 03:45PM

Cormac... wrote: »

Ah, another person from Cork trying to sound like they are from D4 or California is it?

Yeah, I've had quite enough of your type. You can be from Cork and have a Cork accent that isn't a total scumbag accent you know.

In fact many people from abroad like our accent as it's quite musical apparently.

I'm not ashamed of where I am from and I would think any interviewer who bases a job interview off someones accents is probably hiring for a company I don't want to work for.

You go girl "aint no man going to change me baby" ***clicks fingers***

The Backwards Man · 14-04-2015 03:48PM

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

Trying to speak Spanish all day with a belfast accent.

Problematic.

Pequeños bollos

onlyrocknroll · 14-04-2015 03:48PM

Cormac... wrote: »

Ah, another person from Cork trying to sound like they are from D4 or California is it?
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Candie wrote: »

Moderating your accent to accommodate people who might not be familiar with it, is not the same as being ashamed of it.

Cormac... wrote: »

Fair point, though I wasn't trying to imply that the OP was, even though it may have read like that. It was just an aside

It seems to me that was exactly what you were trying to do.

I dampen my Cork accent quite often because I teach English to non-native speakers so it's quite important to be understood. I believe Irish people are particular bad at doing this for some reason.

"Alroight boi hoaz da forum?"

"Sorry... my English is not so good"

"I SAID ALROIIIIGHT BOOOOIII, HOIZZ DA FORUM? :mad:

Turtyturd · 14-04-2015 03:51PM

Ffs all the good Cork jokes are gone.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 14-04-2015 03:51PM

My accent is all over the place anyways. I don't do it consciously but I've noticed in public speaking/important phonecalls type situations I do modify it. I was giving a few lectures recently, chatting away to the tutor in my usual Donegalway-via-Cork brogue beforehand and then into some weird kind of flat, overpronounced I dunno what when I started. Not the best thing to start being conscious of right at the start of a talk. I was like Ross in that episode of friends where he's trying to phase out his British accent.

Generic Dreadhead · 14-04-2015 03:52PM

onlyrocknroll wrote: »

It seems to me that was exactly what you were trying to do.

Calm the Multi-quote body there, it was a bit tongue in cheek as it's quite the typical thing for people who say, go to UCC.

Next time I will include the required

or :rolleyes:

OldMrBrennan83 · 14-04-2015 03:53PM

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Stormington · 14-04-2015 03:53PM

I toned down my Cork accent after I got married: herself wasn't fond of watching ladies sliding off their chairs when I spoke to them.

I've moved around the country a few times and my accent has probably been affected by that naturally and I deal with foreigners on a regular basis so have learned to speak more slowly to avoid misunderstandings. It hasn't been too badly damaged though: Cork people know I am from Cork and others ask where I am from. I'm happy with that.

Generic Dreadhead · 14-04-2015 03:55PM

It was a Cork Accent thread all along people :eek:
GTFO while you can, this is their way of rounding us all up in one place for a mass genocide!!!!

Do you ever try to hide your accent

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