D4 accent

chrissb8 · 13-08-2015 10:09PM

It is an accent I hate with a passion up there with the inner city scumbag accent. The o's go on for ever e.g I'd say "Damo" and that grating accent would make it sound like "Damoo". Of course I don't go around hating on people for having that accent but get 10 of them together drinking and being loud and I might start going insane.

Flippyfloppy · 13-08-2015 10:09PM

John_Rambo wrote: »

Nope.

"Roight, Dort to town?, Point of Horp, Points of Ken... Castlerock UBER Alles, Roysh?" (thanks Ross)

What part of America has this accent?

Obviously it's the inflection used....gettung high pitched at the end of the sentence loike?

fonecrusher1 · 13-08-2015 10:17PM

One eyed Jack wrote: »

A steady diet of American kids tv in childhood will do that. I often encounter children with either a heavy drawl in their accent, or that migraine inducing inflection. It's not so much D4 any more but a nationwide phenomenon.

This ^

Its stomach churning. Its not just children. Were I work I hear these strange half American accents often finishing with this sort of California-esque inflection. Where the feck did this shyte come from????

You know who you are. This isn't an anti-American thing. I just can't handle this phoney American accent business.

Sad bunch.

Stheno · 13-08-2015 10:21PM

I can't understand a Derry accent, I swear they speak on fast forward

Sonderkommando · 13-08-2015 10:23PM

Sport the accent of the land, there is know shame in sounding where you are from:)

There was a lass in finance where I work who was sent over to the company HQ in the USA for a few weeks on business, who came back with the worst, hybrid accent I have ever heard. It was cringeworthy when she spoke.

Day Lewin · 13-08-2015 10:26PM

I read some article somewhere a few years ago, quite serious: the author alleged that the said accent or more correctly, inflection, could be traced to "Friends"

-specifically, that habit of finishing every sentence on an upwards inflection so that they all sound like a question! He claimed that this was never heard commonly in these islands before "Friends"

To which I would add: saying things like
"So - yeah. No. "

and that awful "O" - saying Rain-debate for Roundabout, or Maybile Fayne for Mobile Phone- ugh, (heave)

I think it is an attempt at snobbery, it is specially pervasive among those who set great store by expensive privately-paid education. Keeping up with the Jownses.

Yes, I'm a plain-speaking Dublin snob in my own right.

PS I wish I could remember where I read that article or who it was by, but I can't.

Oneiric 3 · 13-08-2015 10:28PM

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

Get used to it because all accents are homogenising.

Into what? A D4?

Horrible accent. Fake, ostentatious and ugly on the ear. I can't take anyone seriously who uses it (of which a high percentage seem to be female)

I think the reason it is becoming so popular is that it is the standard accent of RTE and its presenters - and by the Irish media in general. It's as almost as if they are promoting it as the accent of the pseudo-sophisticated. Give me a real, hardcore Dub accent any day.

mada999 · 13-08-2015 10:31PM

Lia_lia wrote: »

Ah well. I think it sounds a bit American anyway.

yeah I hear alot of Americannny twang going around Ireland these days... especially people being interviewed on the radio (especially bloggers etc) and adding in the "ummm i guess, bla bla blaa", "ummmm like".. And whats with people calling their mam, mom

I also agree with the poster who said accents are homogenising.

John_Rambo · 13-08-2015 10:34PM

Flippyfloppy wrote: »

Obviously it's the inflection used....gettung high pitched at the end of the sentence loike?

katemarch wrote: »

specifically, that habit of finishing every sentence on an upwards inflection so that they all sound like a question

Australian? (upward inflection on the "ian" bit

Oneiric 3 · 13-08-2015 10:41PM

katemarch wrote: »

-specifically, that habit of finishing every sentence on an upwards inflection so that they all sound like a question! He claimed that this was never heard commonly in these islands before "Friends"

This form of speech actually has a term. 'Uptalking'. It is a manner of speech that is not well received by anyone of note.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/caveman-logic/201010/the-uptalk-epidemic

mailforkev · 13-08-2015 10:42PM

There's the odd phenomena of the female college students from down the country who come to Trinity or UCD for first year and go home at Christmas sounding like they grew up in Killiney. It's generally always girls for some reason.

I've a mate with a girlfriend (mid 30s) who is from a rural town in south east Ireland but sounds like she was in that ****e MTV show The Hills. Unless she reverts to type whenever she visits her hometown she must get an awful slagging.

I spent my childhood and school years in Blackrock and Foxrock so am well used to the social climber faux accent.

RichardCeann · 13-08-2015 10:46PM

Not a big fan of the Americanised accent certain young Dubs speak with, but at least it's understandable. Check out theselads from Cork. I'm normally well able to understand British/Irish accents, but haven't a breeze what they are saying at times.

knird evol · 13-08-2015 10:49PM

John_Rambo wrote: »

Australian? (upward inflection on the "ian" bit

The high rising terminal or terminal interrogative is a feature of the American and Australian accent. Can be heard in a certain part of Dublin also. That begins in S. And ends in outhside.

Sam Kade · 13-08-2015 10:54PM

RichardCeann wrote: »

Not a big fan of the Americanised accent certain young Dubs speak with, but at least it's understandable. Check out theselads from Cork. I'm normally well able to understand British/Irish accents, but haven't a breeze what they are saying at times.

Hey Dicksie it's Killgarvan and they are Kerrymen

John_Rambo · 13-08-2015 10:58PM

knird evol wrote: »

The high rising terminal or terminal interrogative is a feature of the American and Australian accent. Can be heard in a certain part of Dublin all over Ireland also. That begins in S. And ends in outhside.

I fixed up your post there to represent what's being said throughout the thread! "like, OMG... How Cork are you like"

13-08-2015 10:59PM

RichardCeann wrote: »

Not a big fan of the Americanised accent certain young Dubs speak with, but at least it's understandable. Check out theselads from Cork. I'm normally well able to understand British/Irish accents, but haven't a breeze what they are saying at times.

Always laugh at that video! That is not too far from where I grew up and I still can barely understand them.

Sam Kade · 13-08-2015 11:03PM

Lia_lia wrote: »

Always laugh at that video! That is not too far from where I grew up and I still can barely understand them.

I aways laugh at Kerry people who pretend not to be able to understand their own.

13-08-2015 11:05PM

Sam Kade wrote: »

I aways laugh at Kerry people who pretend not to be able to understand their own.

I'm from Killarney town, we don't really speak like that.

John_Rambo · 13-08-2015 11:10PM

Sam Kade wrote: »

I aways laugh at Kerry people who pretend not to be able to understand their own.

Betya yer man's hat's from America? or AustraiLIA? :pac:

silverharp · 13-08-2015 11:10PM

Lia_lia wrote: »

I'm from Killarney town, we don't really speak like that.

My relatives escaped were brought up about 10 miles inland from cahirsiveen and the old lads always spoke like that , couldnt understand a word

Cold War Kid · 13-08-2015 11:13PM

A Dublin accent that's a bit posh is grand. It's this extreme yoke of a thing that combines American with plummy British, and replacing certain "soft" consonants with "harder" ones (e.g. "goffee gup", "MDeeV" (instead of MTV), "bayrents" instead of "parents") which can fuq right off. Awful stuff. It's not just from D4 either - it can be from bleedin' Tipp!

conorh91 · 13-08-2015 11:16PM

Lia_lia wrote: »

Always laugh at that video! That is not too far from where I grew up and I still can barely understand them.

It's a Kerry version of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJVGuxj7AWQ

lazybones32 · 13-08-2015 11:21PM

Lia_lia wrote: »

I am in a train and there are a group of teenagers with that very annoying "D4" accent. Fake American sounding. Does this accent annoy other people? I don't know why but I can't stand it.

Then again I'm from Kerry and I'm sure the rest of the country can't stand the Kerry accent...

There is no location in Ireland that naturally produces an accent like the D4 affectation (contrast it with other Dubs from a few hundred metres away - I can't understand them sometimes but at least they're genuine)
I was with a Leitrim girl many years ago and she had more of a D4 accent than a Leitrim accent. The fantastic-ness of her a$$ compensated for her retarded attempt to sound cultured or whatever her jig was.

Be proud of your accent! It's part of who you are.

masti123 · 13-08-2015 11:29PM

Aidric wrote: »

It might be grating but it beats a scummy inner city accent any day.

I disagree. I'd much rather have a real working class Dublin accent rather than a fake American accent. The fact that you associate a working class accent to scumbags says it all really. The snobbery and ignorance in this town is disgusting.

nxbyveromdwjpg · 13-08-2015 11:35PM

Lia_lia wrote: »

My cousin (from Kerry) started going to college in Maynooth a few years ago...met her in Dublin a few months after she started and she had a feckin D4 accent! Cringe.

So that'd be a Maynooth College accent then?

What area of Dublin 4 is this accent supposedly to be from anyway, it seems misplaced.

K4t · 13-08-2015 11:36PM

lazybones32 wrote: »

Be proud of your accent! It's part of who you are.

It often represents where you are from, but it's not necessarily a part of who you are at all. A neutral voice tone is more often far nicer than most accents imo.

lazybones32 · 13-08-2015 11:57PM

K4t wrote: »

It often represents where you are from, but it's not necessarily a part of who you are at all. A neutral voice tone is more often far nicer than most accents imo.

And where you're from is part of who you are...

Beanntraigheach · 13-08-2015 11:57PM

lazybones32 wrote: »

Be proud of your accent! It's part of who you are.

Couldn't agree more. Where you're raised, when, your family, friends, schooling etc all play their part in developing an individual's accent.
We all use different 'registers' in different situations but those who feel the need to replace their accent with one they perceive as 'superior' in some way reveal a deep-seated lack of confidence in themselves and their background.
Pathetic really.

RichardCeann · 14-08-2015 12:08AM

Sam Kade wrote: »

Hey Dicksie it's Killgarvan and they are Kerrymen

Well, wherever it is, I'd say there would be some craic in that pub.

14-08-2015 12:12AM

Lewis Thankful Screwdriver wrote: »

So that'd be a Maynooth College accent then?

What area of Dublin 4 is this accent supposedly to be from anyway, it seems misplaced.

This is why I put D4 in inverted commas in the OP.

D4 accent

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