Do you find the D4 accent funny?

TheTwiz

Rawhead wrote: »

The same as everyone else in south dublin. I'll never understand how a language has managed to localise itself within 4 square miles. It's the most put on, forced and fake accent ever developed (along with the sligo town accent which didn't even exist 20 years ago).

Tallaght, Rialto, Clondalkin, Crumlin and Ballyfermot are all on the Southside. Do they all sound like they're from Ballsbridge and Blackrock.

What about people from Clontarf, Raheny, Sutton, Howth, Malahide on the Northside. What do they sound like?

epgc3fyqirnbsx

MCMLXXV wrote: »

What's the big deal?

You've got Cork accents, Kerry accents, Wexford accents, Galway accents, Mayo accents, Donegal accents, Carlow accents, Limerick accents, etc. It's just another accent no matter how it originated. People really need to grow up and leave other people to their own.

Apart from dirty scroates of course - they should all be neutralised!

Actually Mayo is the only place in the world not to have an accent. It's everyone else who does talk in a different shtyle that's wrong

upforit101

Saila wrote: »

more annoying than funny, especially the tit who does the mc donalds ads on tv

And that guy who does the sport on Today FM; Michael McMullen
I can't listen to him & always change the station when he talks - sand on glass.
http://www.todayfm.com/Sport/Premier-league-live/AboutMichael.aspx

starlit

Oh I do find that the 'Made In Chelsea' accents on the show a bit hard to listen too sometimes, so posh! Though I like the show though!

foxyboxer

Tubsandtiles wrote: »

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

"Fade Street is Sh1t"

Short, succinct and spot-on.

billybudd

its vulgar!

melekalikimaka

what about people who are actually from the area and have the accent. not by choice but by schooling and socialising, are they also 'twats'?

admiralofthefleet

Jess16 wrote: »

Why? People from Donegal and Kerry make different sounds when they speak too -are they sad and pathetic as well or is this just an excuse to spout venom at Southside Dubliners?



Tell us how you think people born and reared in Blackrock or Dun Laoghaire should sound then

the 'd4' accent is spoken all over the northside as well.


dun laoghaire is a junkie infested kip

Jess16

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

the 'd4' accent is spoken all over the northside as well

See here:

Jess16 wrote: »

That's because a D4 accent has nothing to do with being from Donnybrook, that point has been made several times now.
It's not about where you're from, it's how you're brought up that influences the way you speak.

volvoman480

herosa wrote: »

I love the cork accent especially the real strong one.I could listen to it all day.Its very sexy.

herosa wrote: »

I am serious(and not from cork) The cork lads just do it for me with that accent.

Give me your number and I'll call you....... I've got a strong west cork accent...















This is ****ing great, normally it costs me 4 quid a minute to speak to women....:D

melekalikimaka

Jess16 wrote: »

See here:

i would disagree with you on your points, from living there and going to school there.

Go to the Court in Naas any Friday or Saturday and you'll come across the same accent - all Kildare girls born and reared. The K4 accent I like to call it. That and the t.wat accent.

Micky Dolenz

At least they can be understood. Other places in the country it sounds like they are talking some form of gibberish, smile and nod time.

Eric Cartman

the worst irish accents

donegal
d4
cork


the d4 accent is just some put on accent replicated by the special needs residents of south dublin and castleknock , trying to make themselves seem posh among their equally retarded and stuck up peers, first developed in their castleknock/terenure/clongowes/the institute years and further refined in trinity/UCD it stays with them for life like aids, there's no known cure, but for the rest of us there is hope, this is a brilliant social indicator that sufferers are gullible and easily taken advantage of , they are also easily threatened by the presence of a north dublin accent. Using this information you can easily extract whatever you wish from these mentally feeble creatures, including money. Sufferers of this accent are partial to shiney things and once you stick a designer label on any clothing or a bmw badge on any car they are liable to hand over all of their daddys money to aquire these items. use this information wisely and you can live a happy life at the expense of these creatures

paddyandy

All Accents are 'funny' if you are an outsider.

LH Pathe

Only two D4 lads I knew were autistic, so the two combined just I dunno .. Worked! funny pair

Shane-KornSpace

Jess16 wrote: »

Why? People from Donegal and Kerry make different sounds when they speak too -are they sad and pathetic as well or is this just an excuse to spout venom at Southside Dubliners?

Im from south Dublin and the OP is not suggesting all people from south Dublin have the accent. That would be foolish, loike.

People with that accent deserve a nice slap *imo*

Donald_ducked

Accents are mad aul things

I know a few people from Stillorgan and Blackrock and they have what would be considered a "D4" accent to someone from outside Dublin. These people are actually the some of soundest, most genuine heads you could meet.

I do think though that people outside of Dublin struggle to differentiate between a typical southside Dub accent and a D4 accent. There is actually a big difference. A put on D4 accent can be recognised straight away when you hear them talking really loudly about being 'on the lock' with ridiculous over emphasis on certain words

LH Pathe

It's in the O's and the R's, primarily.

aka MiRiam aoooOooah Callaghan

Naomi00

Eric Cartman wrote: »

the worst irish accents

donegal
d4
cork

:eek:

I love Donegal accents. D4 accent is awful though, hate the way they say 'Dahh-blin' for Dublin, especially on RTE.

LH Pathe

My issue with it is it sounds American / English n if that weren't bad enough its the posh aspects, at that

its like if you were abroad with it you could probably hear the distant strains of "somebody's gonna get their head-cut-off to-night"

yermanoffthetv

I thought it was funny at first with the first few Rosser books, then it became lame and now with the recession its just pathetic. To be honest though I found the D4 thing was usually insecure college undergrads desperate for attention and identity. Ive met plenty of non-tossers from D4 that dont speak/act like that at all. Now the "popes childeren" generation that carry on like that, dye is cast for them they will forever be a generation of pretencious pr1cks.

HavingCrack

Is the 'D4' accent still alive and well? I'm in UCD and I definately don't notice it as much as I did 3-4 years ago, it seems to be going out of fashion a bit.

Out of interest, what is a 'normal' middle class Dublin accent?? I don't mean the D4 one but just a regular accent. Who would sound like that?

Starla_o0 wrote: »

Go to the Court in Naas any Friday or Saturday and you'll come across the same accent - all Kildare girls born and reared. The K4 accent I like to call it. That and the t.wat accent.

Really? Nearly everyone I know from Kildare has a fairly nondescript accent.

profitius

Some inner city Cork accents are annoying but they're in the minority to the more rural Cork accents.

Theres nothing worse then people putting on a fake accent. Their inferiority complex comes racing to the surface.

Azureus

HavingCrack wrote: »

Is the 'D4' accent still alive and well? I'm in UCD and I definately don't notice it as much as I did 3-4 years ago, it seems to be going out of fashion a bit.

Out of interest, what is a 'normal' middle class Dublin accent?? I don't mean the D4 one but just a regular accent. Who would sound like that?

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D4 is definately still alive and well-see it every day in work. Something drawly and couldnt-care-less-about-you about that accent thats very very annoying. That and the fact that its made up!

Normal middle class Dublin accents are fairly non-descript I would say. Well pronounced words with very little accent to comment on from my experience anyway ie not d4/not inner city...just there.

The Orb

suicide_circus wrote: »

Well the sad fact is, if two people with same qualifications and experience go for an interview for the same job;

1st goes in; "Hoy, loike thank yew sew moch for take the toyme to meet me, I think yew'll foynd oym the purrrfect condeedate for this position"

2nd goes in; "stooooooreey man, fayor play fer de intorviw, wha. Oy'd be blaydin rappeh for dis jab so I wud."

..we all know who is gonna get the job

Indeed we do, the one with the best bewbs, as it should be.

melekalikimaka

Azureus wrote: »

D4 is definately still alive and well-see it every day in work. Something drawly and couldnt-care-less-about-you about that accent thats very very annoying. That and the fact that its made up!

Normal middle class Dublin accents are fairly non-descript I would say. Well pronounced words with very little accent to comment on from my experience anyway ie not d4/not inner city...just there.

there is no such thing as a non descript accent, non descript would be whatever your used to surely?

mikemac

Some blame the TV show Friends, well a lot of this started around the same time

seanmc1980

I live in dundrum but originally from the country and while i do hear the very strong "d4" accent from time to time, its mainly coming from young girls hanging around in groups in the centre.

What really annoys me is the girl (always girls for some reason) who going to college in dublin and comes back to the country for xmas sporting the strongest D4 accent you'd ever hear. you all know this girl. she better then you now cos she pronounces her Ts. much bigger twat than someone how has had teh accent most of thier life

paddyandy

I love the dublin 4 posh accent young ladies sound beautifully sensuous and have lovely manners too.It get's ridiculed but the real thing is very nice to hear.

foxyboxer

You get accused of being "very grawned altogether" in Cork if you speak english* properly in anyway and have a broader vocabulary.



* Speaking in a way in which non-Corkonians can understand.

Example
"C'mere, willya gup to da shop there la and get us d'examiner"

"Will you go to the shop and get the examiner"

flash1080

I find all Dublin accents offensive.

the groutch

only good thing about D4 accents is they make the North City Centre accents seem a little less irritating

starch4ser

dilbert2 wrote: »

Came across a few people earlier who came (I presume) from somewhere within or around the D4 area. I don't know what it is, but I almost have to hold my laughter in when I'm around these people talking. The kind of accent that goes like.

"I porked the cor in the pob cor pork beforrr goo-in in fuhora pwoint of heino"

You can make it out when they're sober but have you ever heard a bunch of them talking to each other when drunk. It sounds like they're talking a foreign language Speak properly gob****es.

volvoman480

foxyboxer wrote: »

You get accused of being "very grawned altogether" in Cork if you speak english* properly in anyway and have a broader vocabulary.



* Speaking in a way in which non-Corkonians can understand.

Example
"C'mere, willya gup to da shop there la and get us d'examiner"

"Will you go to the shop and get the examiner"

Bullsh1t....


No one ever gets sent for "d'examiner"

















You get sent for "de paper"......:D

SuckMyGuitar

gav25 wrote: »

D4 accent is horrible, almost sounds american. has anyone ever watched that fyi show on tv3 or 3e. one of the girls cassie i think she is called who presents part of it is obviously irish but puts on this american accent when pronouncing some words. sort that out!
louth accent is the worst by far though...

I think she used to live in america or canada and now she's lives over here and the two accents sort of mixed.