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Have you kept your accent?

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    #62
    Crumble Froo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    Rabies wrote: »
    choice bro

    as long as i dont wake up talking like this one day, i think ill live with it :pac:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdVHZwI8pcA


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    #63
    captainjack
    Registered Users Posts: 96 ✭✭captainjack


    javaboy wrote: »
    Fixed Your Post.

    To embed youtube videos, just put the bolded bit in between youtube tags: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgWABKQpvqA

    becomes [YOUTUBE]jgWABKQpvqA[/YOUTUBE]


    Legend, much obliged.

    Can't get my head around all the acronyms at all


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    #64
    Overflow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,266 ✭✭✭Overflow


    Has anyone ever noitced anyone or been guilty of speaking to foreigners in the way in which you would speak to someone from ireland. By this i mean that when we speak to each other we tend to speak pretty fast, with alot of slang words and some of our accents may be less understandable to foreigners than others.

    I have two friend with thick dublin accents and whenever they speak to foreigners they dont slow down when they speak and continue to use slang which is completely alien to foreigns, they make no effort to pronounce what they are saying in a clear manner that a foreigner could understand. I would say and have been told by all my norwegian friends that they dont have a fookin clue what they are saying half the time.

    I find it pretty amusing because i dont have a clue what the norwegians are saying half the time either.


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    #65
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    People who know I'm from Cork think I sound 'Cork', everyone else thinks I'm from Dublin. Except foreigners who always think I'm Australian (I've never been there). From moving around a lot it kinda moulds to wherever I'm living at the time.


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    #66
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 18,324 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    J.S. Pill wrote: »
    CNN made her undergo vocal chord surgery to change her accent to a weird stateless one. CNN is so global and cutting edge that its presenters can't be identified with any one country.


    I'd love to know the process , does she have a meeting with her boss to be where they say " lose the brogue Paddy and you've got the job!"


    on the other hand....... I heard at one of the UK airports they used to time their breaks so they could tune in

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    #67
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    "oi hav a mad dubalin accent on me so oi deww"

    "I totally have like an omg west brish with a like blend of omg - The Hills- if you know wash I mean"

    "uhh nooo ze chermins har comink"

    Schizophrenia ftw.


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    #68
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    javaboy wrote: »
    Fixed Your Post.

    To embed youtube videos, just put the bolded bit in between youtube tags: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgWABKQpvqA

    becomes [YOUTUBE]jgWABKQpvqA[/YOUTUBE]
    To post bbcode use the noparse tag:
    [noparse][noparse]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgWABKQpvqA
    [/noparse][/noparse]


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    #69
    comongethappy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭comongethappy


    I've a mid atlanic accent ;)

    Some people can spot straight away I'm from the states, some can't. It all depends on what I say really. Everyone back home thinks I sound Irish.


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    #70
    sam34
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭sam34


    i lived in cork for ten years, so i'm often told i have a cork accent.

    i'm actually from kerry, so this saddens me greatly!


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    #71
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    According to one person I sound more Irish now than my born and bred Irish mate, despite the fact I lived in England from ages 0-7...

    Have been confused for an Australian quite a few times before though, so **** knows how accurate that is...


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    #72
    bobcar61
    Registered Users Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭bobcar61


    I had a really strong D4 accent when I lived in Dublin which was for 5 years of my life and now I live in Sligo and have the totally opposite accent.

    My cousin lived in America for 20 years and within a year of moving home he had a Cork accent:confused:


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