American accent

Dickie10

would peopele believe that the female dublin accent is actually nearly extinct? because young women in their scramble to get out of the working class and up into the middle class are leaving the dublin accent behind and taking the D4 accent. im in college and its a really long time since i heard a girl from dublin talking moore street dublin. even girls from phibsboro, finglas and tallaght are all like this and OMG and like. the only females who dont talk in D4 are the people who dish out the food or the cleaners!

bodice ripper

Dickie10 wrote: »

would peopele believe that the female dublin accent is actually nearly extinct? because young women in their scramble to get out of the working class and up into the middle class are leaving the dublin accent behind and taking the D4 accent. im in college and its a really long time since i heard a girl from dublin talking moore street dublin. even girls from phibsboro, finglas and tallaght are all like this and OMG and like. the only females who dont talk in D4 are the people who dish out the food or the cleaners!

maybe you are just hanging out with the wrong crowd

Generic Dreadhead

Dickie10 wrote: »

the only females who dont talk in D4 are the people who dish out the food or the cleaners!

WTF? :pac:

Captain Chaos

Dickie10 hasn't put 2 and 2 together yet.............

Yep, I went there.:pac::D

Jaspermalex

Watching to much American TV , friends sh!te

Don Kedick

They say that the various Irish accents will be nearly extict in 30 years.

WesternZulu

Don Kedick wrote: »

They say that the various Irish accents will be nearly extict in 30 years.

The Mayo accent will never tie.

In the event of a nuclear apocalypse all that will be left is cockroaches speaking in a strong Mayo accent.

RobYourBuilder

A lot of young Irish people were babysat by the television. Walk around the Pavilion in Swords or Dundrum shopping centre and you will see the results. Like.

Yamanoto

Don Kedick wrote: »

They say that the various Irish accents will be nearly extict in 30 years.

Ah Jaysus, that's terrible altogether.

Have they any other news for us?

Lapin

Birneybau wrote: »

Totes amazeballs.

That's so L.A.

More likely to hear it said in D4 though.

Sh1tbag OToole

Don Kedick wrote: »

They say that the various Irish accents will be nearly extict in 30 years.

Who are this they you speak of?

KungPao

RobYourBuilder wrote: »

A lot of young Irish people were babysat by the television. Walk around the Pavilion in Swords or Dundrum shopping centre and you will see the results. Like.

I watched McGyver and The A Team a lot + The Simpsons and a whole lot more while growing up in the 80s and 90s...I don't say 'you know, like, whatever man...etc.

There must be more to it.

WesternZulu

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Who are this they you speak of?

Donnacha and Fiachra.

jimgoose

KungPao wrote: »

I watched McGyver and The A Team a lot + The Simpsons and a whole lot more while growing up in the 80s and 90s...I don't say 'you know, like, whatever man...etc.

There must be more to it.

Yes, same as that. I do however say things like "If I had some duct tape, I could fix that" and "I ain't goin' on no plane, fool!!" quite a bit.

Manach

Given the cultural and political links that the US has, it is rather unsurprising the vocalisations are as easily accepted as their world views.

Don Kedick

Yamanoto wrote: »

Ah Jaysus, that's terrible altogether.

Have they any other news for us?

Well I heard today that Ireland is moving it's location slowly. In about 80 years we'll be closer to Iceland than Wales.

Don Kedick

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Who are this they you speak of?

They do be spreading the news.

jimgoose

Don Kedick wrote: »

They do be spreading the news.

As long as it's W.R. Hearst's boys doing their damnedest to get that idjit Harding out of the White House before he has us all in the workhouse let them at it, by cracky. :mad:

WesternZulu

Don Kedick wrote: »

Well I heard today that Ireland is moving it's location slowly. In about 80 years we'll be closer to Iceland than Wales.

Where in the name of God did you hear this?

sh1tstirrer

Dravokivich wrote: »

I don't have an American accent, I'm concentrating on trying to speak clearly. It's annoying having to point out the difference.

I bet you are one of those people that call Cork Co-irk.

Don Kedick

WesternZulu wrote: »

Where in the name of God did you hear this?

It came up in a discussion about the climate change.

RobYourBuilder

Dravokivich wrote: »

I don't have an American accent, I'm concentrating on trying to speak clearly. It's annoying having to point out the difference.

There's a lot more to Irish accents than Dublin howiya and incomprehensible rural dweller. It's possible to speak in a way that is comprehensible to a national or, indeed, international audience without sounding American.

Yamanoto

Don Kedick wrote: »

It came up in a discussion about the climate change.

With who?

Kerry Katona?

jimgoose

RobYourBuilder wrote: »

There's a lot more to Irish accents than Dublin howiya and incomprehensible rural dweller. It's possible to speak in a way that is comprehensible to a national or indeed international audience without sounding American.

Ah yer as awkward as a sow in reverse so y'are hi. We may quit altogether!! :pac:

sh1tstirrer

Don Kedick wrote: »

It came up in a discussion about the climate change.

You need to stop believing in fairy stories.

Sh1tbag OToole

Don Kedick wrote: »

It came up in a discussion about the climate change.

Do you know if Don Kedick is a short-lived trolling account?

Don Kedick

Yamanoto wrote: »

With who?

Kerry Katona?

Apparently Kerry Katona has 6 toes on her left foot.

Don Kedick

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

You need to stop believing in fairy stories.

A fairy gave me a pink shnack before.

Don Kedick

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Do you know if Don Kedick is a short-lived trolling account?

I heard from a reliable source that Don Kedick likes his women to lick their elbows.

Generic Dreadhead

Poor trolling is so cringe worthy, it's like watching a drunk uncle dance at a wedding, you want to feel bad for them but they usually brought it on themselves, it's like a kind of detached pity where you just wonder "why do they think this big or clever"

Don Kedick

Cormac... wrote: »

Poor trolling is so cringe worthy, it's like watching a drunk uncle dance at a wedding, you want to feel bad for them but they usually brought it on themselves, it's like a kind of detached pity where you just wonder "why do they think this big or clever"

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Dravokivich

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

I bet you are one of those people that call Cork Co-irk.

Nope, however it is how I feel about the place.

RobYourBuilder wrote: »

There's a lot more to Irish accents than Dublin howiya and incomprehensible rural dweller. It's possible to speak in a way that is comprehensible to a national or, indeed, international audience without sounding American.

That's the thing. I don't sound American. It's being perceived by others as sounding and/or attempting to sound American though.

Why the sudden interest in a post I made a year ago?

Grayson

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

Accents used to develop 'naturally' over time both here and elsewhere. Provided your family hasn't moved about too much, you probably sound a little similar to your parents, and they to theirs, and they to theirs and so on. What people find interesting about this is that an American twang has sprung up in certain parts of the country in the current generation.

It's a really interesting modern phenomenon and is worthy of discussion and examination in my opinion.

I read an article by a linguistic expert who traced certain intonations in accents. He discovered that in certain places like the US deep south, it was still possible to detect the original accents of the settlers. He could even be precise enough to be able to determine which small rural area the original emigrants came from. In that particular case he could detect north Yorkshire/south Scotland accents and he thought that's where a lot of the "feuds" originated.

Completely off topic, but I thought it was interesting.

Gyalist

Did anyone else see Brendan Owens, an Irish astronomer at the Royal Observatory, on the news last week discussing Philae?
He spoke with a ridiculous American accent.

Wabbit Ears

I regularly get fcukwits commenting on the fact that I speak with a bit of an American accent like I do it to on purpose or something. The fact that My Mother is American and we grew up with that accent doesn't seem to sway their opinion that its put on.

deadybai

When people finish every sentence as if they are asking a question is the real problem here. Thats really fcuking annoying?

bodice ripper

Wabbit Ears wrote: »

I regularly get fcukwits commenting on the fact that I speak with a bit of an American accent like I do it to on purpose or something. The fact that My Mother is American and we grew up with that accent doesn't seem to sway their opinion that its put on.

Preach!

Mal-Adjusted

Finton90 wrote: »

Irish society in general is becoming more americanised. Go to a college house party and everyone is sitting around drinking out of those red american party cups as if they were steve stifler or van wilder, wearing baseball caps of a team they have never heard of.

Iv'e been to many a house party in college and have never, ever, not once seen this.




Edit: whoops, only noticed now that it's a zombie thread.

deadybai

deadybai wrote: »

When people finish every sentence as if they are asking a question is the real problem here. Thats really fcuking annoying?

that's called an upper inflection and is the most annoying thing I've heard.
I personally feel like goring my eyes out when I hear that American/DORT accent. It's trendy now to sell yourself so as to sound more like a culture that's banjaxed!! it's more a sad reflection of the person who's speaking that way.

You really wanna kill youself if you have the terrible luck of having to go into an Abercrombie shop here!! Hey guys, SUP?????
I respond with look of absolute hatred!!!

Dickie10

mmm so who still has a working class dublin accent in dublin, people that dont go to college?

KungPao

Dickie10 wrote: »

mmm so who still has a working class dublin accent in dublin, people that dont go to college?

Just the dregs of society, obvs.

Dickie10

ewww

a working class accent??? or a normal irish accent?
not a transatlantic D4 trying to sound too cool for school Abercrombie accent?

I speak well, I don't sound like a scumbag and I know loads of people who speak nicely and sound irish, no soft sounding T's that sound like "d's" Hey guys wanna go to a pardy?.

Just stick on Spin FM to hear how grating and fake the latter is.

Adamantium

This is sort of off-topic, but I don't think we can help our influences.

My brother has this sort of gravely accent and I used to think the american twang was a narky thing he picked. I always tried to speak very clearly (but not in a purposely americanised way) as a young lad as It used to piss me off coming from a rural area full of farmers that I would have a hard time understanding my own native accent.

I then did student radio and the 1st time I tested my voice over proper studio equipment,my jaw dropped, christ I sounded sexy (please, please contain your applause), my voice was deep and gravely, but almost too deep bassy slurry even, exactly like my brother

Prepare to have your mind blown at this part, the older student who was in there the way you sound in a recording is the way you have sounded to everybody all the time since day zero in normal life

Then it hit me why people seemed to stop talking when as a teenager and listen when I spoke even though I was an introvert, everybody would take the **** I said real seriously even when I meant something as a joke and woud laugh. All my attempts to sound clearer were futile at best beyound lowering and raising pitch.

TDLR Feel sorry, forgiving for people who don't know the sound of their own voice, because in their head they sound like something different, and so do you. Total mind****. Go on, hit the voice recorder on your computer that's what you sound like all the time, it made me totally re-think arguments and discussions I've had, and even how I tell stories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvosNz0Xq7g