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Kid Goes Viral Because Of Accent (VID)

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  • #62
    TheBeardedLady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    I'm so confused!


  • #63
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    the guy in the youtube clip is completely taking the piss.. and he is very good at it.

    We'd put on exaggerated accents like that amongst ourselves sometimes, just for the craic.

    The other thing that sounds funny is whistling your 's' words when talking like that... and the old 'aye' on an in-breath


  • #64
    BoJack Horseman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,248 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    Sh*t.

    For a glorious moment, I thought he was genuine.

    Good acting though.


  • #65
    Lia_lia
    Registered Users Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    I think he's great! The free state thing made me laugh, I've never heard anyone say that. :pac:


  • #66
    Tearin It Up
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭Tearin It Up


    Can anyone translate what he said?


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  • #67
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Tearin It Up wrote: »
    Can anyone translate what he said?

    Well, thr.. th'Moler siz we hed tae go anywi, wi hadn much eh a chuice in th'mat'er, but shur ow..

    Oooh gode y'wouddin b'long in geytin frostbit.


  • #68
    Copper_pipe
    Registered Users Posts: 11,553 ✭✭✭✭Copper_pipe


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  • #69
    Macavity.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭Macavity.


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    He sounds nothing like Ian Paisley, it's a genuine County Derry accent!!:mad:

    He does in fairness, huge similarity. A bit less raspy though. Like a friendly Ian Paisley. :pac:

    The Free State comment was very good alright. Some character.


  • #70
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    At least UTV have someone when Julian retires


  • #71
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Macavity. wrote: »
    He does in fairness, huge similarity.

    Not to nor'westerners like tBM. He doesn't sound like Paisley to me either - I have cousins, not far from where he lives, with a similar accent.


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  • #72
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    ♫
    My power flurries through the air into the ground
    My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around
    And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast
    Oh Ya wouldn't be long gettin' frost bit.


  • #73
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    mikom wrote: »
    ♫
    My power flurries through the air into the ground
    My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around
    And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast
    Oh Ya wouldn't be long gettin' frost bit.

    I'm never going back to them free state Bastards


  • #74
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    It's funny where some slang comes from when you think about it. A popular saying around here is 'if you want the winter to pass quick buy dear kent land', 'kent' coming from the Cockney rhyming Duke of Kent for rent, and rented land was traditionally paid for in the spring. How a word borrowed from that dialect wound up in our vocabulary is beyond me.


  • #75
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    The Free state thing is common enough, a lot of my NI friends say it a lot, normally followed by Bastard :p


  • #76
    mariaalice
    Registered Users Posts: 12,358 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    I was in NI on a bank holiday weekend and went for a coffee,... I said you are very busy and he said ay its a bank holiday in the free state we get a lot coming for the weekend, it was only then that it struck me that they have different bank holidays that here and that it really is a different country.


  • #77
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    I like the cut of his jib. Fair play to him, he will go far!


  • #78
    Reoil
    Registered Users Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭Reoil


    For those ignorant few(!) - he's putting the accent on. It's a piss-take.
    He has a youtube account where he does many impersonations.


  • #79
    kfallon
    Registered Users Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    The Free state thing is common enough, a lot of my NI friends say it a lot, normally followed by Bastard :p

    That's complete rubbish, you're taking the piss now.....we know you have no friends.... ;) :P


  • #80
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Seen this on my newsfeed the other day, I know the area well, and apparently he's a budding impressionist/comedian.

    I think utv thought they had some young eccentric (dim) lad heading to school.....

    Turns out the joke was on them.

    Ps...... His onscreen accent is nothing like a real north Derry one.


  • #81
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Seen this on my newsfeed the other day, I know the area well, and apparently he's a budding impressionist/comedian.

    I think utv thought they had some young eccentric (dim) lad heading to school.....

    Turns out the joke was on them.

    Ps...... His onscreen accent is nothing like a real north Derry one.
    Of course it isn't. Because he isn't from North Derry. :p

    Have to laugh at all these comments about his accent not being real, its slightly embellished but real nonetheless. I doubt not many of you have spent much time around places like Feeney, Cranagh and Plumbridge.


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  • #82
    Madam
    Registered Users Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Madam


    He sounds like my dad when he's lampooning his own accent(he comes from just outside Raphoe).Hope he does well whatever he does in life.


  • #83
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Quite amusing, but that sounds like a normal enough wilds-of-Donegal twang to me, hi! :D


  • #84
    Madam
    Registered Users Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Madam


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Quite amusing, but that sounds like a normal enough wilds-of-Donegal twang to me, hi! :D

    There are many Donegal accents - some soft some not soðŸ˜


  • #85
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Madam wrote: »
    There are many Donegal accents - some soft some not soðŸ˜

    The Irish dialect up there is magnificent - it sounds like Mandarin! :pac:


  • #86
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Of course it isn't. Because he isn't from North Derry. :p

    Have to laugh at all these comments about his accent not being real, its slightly embellished but real nonetheless. I doubt not many of you have spent much time around places like Feeney, Cranagh and Plumbridge.

    I count anything North of Maghera = North Derry (as in County Derry)

    Park, Feeney, foreglen etc, then you have drumsurn (sur)

    I'm a south Derry man, but nowhere near Derry city (55 miles away)

    I've a few exes from that neck of the woods though ;) showing my age now, but we all use to converge around slaughtnaile on a Fri night, then it was clubland/Glenavy etc in Cookstown on a sat night.

    Jesus..... That's almost twenty years ago now...... :eek:


  • #87
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Quite amusing, but that sounds like a normal enough wilds-of-Donegal twang to me, hi! :D

    Not the wilds Jim, the best land in the county is where you'd hear that accent. There's a swathe from the Lagan Desert through Llifford/Strabane on up through Donemana and Draperstown to the northern slopes of Glenshane where that accent is common.

    You're in Banjo String country once you cross over Glenshane though. Literally. :p


  • #88
    bb1234567
    Registered Users Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    StormWarrior wrote: »
    I don't really know what you are picking up on in this video. I'm English and to me he sounds exactly the same as every other Irish person.

    If you think he sounds like a person from cork or north inner city dublin then you have no ears. Im Irish and I could barely understand what he was saying.


  • #89
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    StormWarrior wrote: »
    I don't really know what you are picking up on in this video. I'm English and to me he sounds exactly the same as every other Irish person.

    I know what you mean. I'm Irish and Sarf London ("Cant's 'avin' a fackin girrawrf annat, innit!?") sounds identical to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ("Eeee oooo 'oway tha' day wor lad, Ah wur 'ungry laaahk, Ah'm gannin' yarm! Toooon!!") :D


  • #90
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    any Donegal / Derry / Tyrone boards folk ever hear the expression 'I seen me...' or 'on one's errand...' ?

    You would hear both those expressions frequently where I live.


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  • #91
    WesternZulu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭WesternZulu


    mariaalice wrote: »
    I was in NI on a bank holiday weekend and went for a coffee,... I said you are very busy and he said ay its a bank holiday in the free state we get a lot coming for the weekend, it was only then that it struck me that they have different bank holidays that here and that it really is a different country.

    So it was the fact that they have different bank holidays that made you realise that it's a different country...not the fact that you were using a different currency?


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