That new D4 accent

[OwlsFan]

Over the last few years there is a new accent, taught no doubt by elocution teachers, where "house" is pronounced "hi-se", "out" is now "eye-te" and "roundabout" is "rounda-bite". Lorraine Keane is one of leading exponents of this vernacular as is that one with Mark Cagney on TV3 in the morning. Every new reporter/presenter now for TV3 or RTE have this yuppie accent and it is driving me to distraction. Apparently a country accent or a Dublin accent is now passe and uncool and you have to talk as if you're from a mansion in Dalkey.

Give me "Moooyycul" McMullen anyday of the week to this pretentious cr*p.

[anto1208]

I guess they realise the dublin accient sounds like a homeless cat being scrope across a blackboard to most people and had to get rid of it .

I still get shivers going on holidays and waking up to hear "wa ar yous bleeedin sayen " ( which means pardon me could you repeat that please )

Its just a tiny bit worse than the fake limerick scumbag accient " cumere lu" ?

( come here please )

[gustavo]

Surely no one could sound more pretentious than Michael McMullan

Give me "Moooyycul" McMullen anyday of the week to this pretentious cr*p.

[paul_oshea]

is that the fella who goes " this is michael mcmullan reporting for todayfm sport and weather next or something...." in an english accent?

[sligoman]

is that the fella who goes " this is michael mcmullan reporting for todayfm sport and weather next or something...." in an english accent?

Yes, Moyyycull McMooollon.

[Dodge]

is that the fella who goes " this is michael mcmullan reporting for todayfm sport and weather next or something...." in an english accent?

Jesus I despise that ****!

The d4 accent isn't really new though is it?

[DmanDmythDledge]

The d4 accent isn't really new though is it?

No but it's not really a D4 accent anymore as you hear it almost anywhere on the southside.

[paul_oshea]

ya i do too dodge, but do ye know which i despise more that inchicore ballyfaro accent :P only messin.

Its just when someone said moooyculll it stood out straight away and I only hear todayFM about 4 times a year, but that stupid accent sticks out a mile. I thought to be honest he had come from an english radio station.

No but it's not really a D4 accent anymore as you hear it almost anywhere on the southside.

No, you are right, its a cross between a mid-atlantic and mid-irish sea accent, some sort of depraved hybrid nasal singing.

[Dodge]

Its just when someone said moooyculll it stood out straight away and I only hear todayFM about 4 times a year, but that stupid accent sticks out a mile. I thought to be honest he had come from an english radio station.

First time I heard it I thought it was a parody of a DJ in a Smashey-n-Nicey kinda way

[Sheridan]

I don't think Moykle Mockmullin is representative of a particular accent as such, he's just a drawling buffoon who knows nothing about sport.

Equally, the Lorraine Keane accent is more typical of northside girls who've just started secondary school and are trying to soften their vowels in order to sound like their friends. It's a preliminary stage on the road to developing a neutral accent, it's just that LK hasn't progressed beyond it yet...

[paul_oshea]

Lorraine Keane AA roadwatch.

Reminds me of school a poor girl with the same name ( though she might have prounouced it kane ) who anytime she would say something it got followed by "lorraine keane AA roadwatch", and then sometimes when things were quiet it would just be blurted out from anyone in the class....or if anything about weather or roads was introduced into the class etc......poor girl couldn't say anything without being ridiculed.

[pete]

AA Roadwatch are so bad I am sure the girls must have to change their names before they are hired. None of them seem to have what would be termed 'ordinary' names.

[NeilMcD]

I thought I was alone in my hatred for that gimp from Today FM. He represets everything that is wrong with some sports fans in this country.

[Roadend]

I don't think Moykle Mockmullin is representative of a particular accent as such, he's just a drawling buffoon who knows nothing about sport.

Speaking of drawling buffoons, that Jacqui Hurley one that does the little sports segment after the Simpsons of a monday evening on RTE2. Never has a more clueless person ever attempted to talk about something they clearly know nothing about. I can't begin to explain my rage when she appears on the screen. I suppose I could always turn over.

[superfrank]

No but it's not really a D4 accent anymore as you hear it almost anywhere on the southside.

It's even spread to the upper classes here and the D4 wannabes.

It's really infuriating to hear. I had a girlfriend with one before and it wrecked my head. It's a horribly sharp attack of the senses.

[OwlsFan]

There are definitely elecution lessons involved here. Words like "house" and "out" are particularly susceptible to the Dublin accent so they go to elecution lessons and end up as "heiss" and "ite" as in "roundabite". It's an epidemic of huge proportions. It's everywhere. It's doing my head in. I am going ite of my mind.

[John83]

Speaking of drawling buffoons, that Jacqui Hurley one that does the little sports segment after the Simpsons of a monday evening on RTE2. Never has a more clueless person ever attempted to talk about something they clearly know nothing about. I can't begin to explain my rage when she appears on the screen. I suppose I could always turn over.

Just googled her name to find a photo so I knew who you meant. I don't think I've ever seen the show, but http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=3481492

[Jerry The Saint]

It would be churlish not to mention Conor MockNamora (son of Limerick and DJ Mickey Mac) in a thread like this. His fake accent and references to Cunny Kenningham, Denny Mehphy and the likes even managed to convince the BBC that he was English.


The thread title is incorrect as the Lorraine Keane AA Roadwatch accent is actually that old "D4" accent, more properly a "Dort" accent which was always more of a class/wannabee class thing than a regional accent. Even many country lasses adopted this accent. Both Keane and the Ireland AM woman are in their 30s and weren't quite the originators of this accent so it's far from a new thing.

Speaking of Lorraine Keane - I saw her the other day presenting a show that appeared to be called "SEXPO" Hardly an appropriate name for daytime television?

The new D4 accent that is really beneath contempt is that spoken by young ones today who think they're part of some friggin' OC Super Sweet Real Laguna Beach show. Never heard of that Bebo woman in the previous link but OHMIGOD, I bet she TOTALLY has that accent.

[kdjaC]

I still get shivers going on holidays and waking up to hear "wa ar yous bleeedin sayen " ( which means pardon me could you repeat that please )

You go to Dublin on your holidays?



kdjac

[Lionel Ritchie]

Its just a tiny bit worse than the fake limerick scumbag accient " cumere lu" ?

( come here please )

But that's moderno-reductionist fake Limerick scumbag.

Expressive-middle-nonfake Limerick Scumbag which reached it's Xenith in the late '80's was a far richer vernacular. A classic example would be

"He-ur handbag gi's two-bob illuh" Translation: "Greetings citizen whom I'm pre-supposing to be a homosexual ...would you by any chance have some spare change?"