No, sorry, but your accent sucks.

[anthony87]

I love the fact that nobody, be they actor, average joe or Jesus himself can pull off a decent Irish accent, specifically a Dublin accent.

 

[Private Custard]

Hearing the british version of many words annoys me like mad. (Yes, I realize the reverse is likely too)
Garage for one. Also Aluminum, which over there is Alumin-i-um. That extra syllable irks me.

pay attention!

OT: I hate Birmingham accents. I also hate the Liverpool accent, but only on men. Scouse accented women can be cute!

 

[similar.squirrel]

There is something inherently threatening about the Dublin accent. One gets the impression that the speaker is on the verge of removing a lead pipe from his sock and nailing you with it.

 

[Kenko]

Worst accent ever? Leonardio DiCaprio in Blood Diamon, that was just pure goddamn agony to listen to.

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

Fake Australian accents are just sad, and lack the nessisary amount of "Fuck" to make it sound real.

Yeah, I'm from fuckin''Strayla aye?

 

[StBishop]

Hearing the british version of many words annoys me like mad. (Yes, I realize the reverse is likely too)
Garage for one. Also Aluminum, which over there is Alumin-i-um. That extra syllable irks me.

Ever seen a Periodic table of the Elements? It's spelt Aluminium.

 

[Your Nightmare]

any brummie (birmingham england) accent

SCREW YOU! ;D

I personally hate the American accent =/

 

[Miumaru]

Hearing the british version of many words annoys me like mad. (Yes, I realize the reverse is likely too)
Garage for one. Also Aluminum, which over there is Alumin-i-um. That extra syllable irks me.

Ever seen a Periodic table of the Elements? It's spelt Aluminium.

Maybe where you are. Im in the US. And both ways are actually acceptable. I did not say my way is more right, it just is what I prefer and am used to.

 

[Lord Monocle Von Banworthy]

Hearing the british version of many words annoys me like mad. (Yes, I realize the reverse is likely too)
Garage for one. Also Aluminum, which over there is Alumin-i-um. That extra syllable irks me.

Ever seen a Periodic table of the Elements? It's spelt Aluminium.

Ever seen a grammar textbook? It's conjugated "spelled."

I'm messing with you, but you set yourself up gorgeously, mate.

 

[StBishop]

Hearing the british version of many words annoys me like mad. (Yes, I realize the reverse is likely too)
Garage for one. Also Aluminum, which over there is Alumin-i-um. That extra syllable irks me.

Ever seen a Periodic table of the Elements? It's spelt Aluminium.

Ever seen a grammar textbook? It's conjugated "spelled."

I'm messing with you, but you set yourself up gorgeously, mate.

I was on about spelt bread, with Aluminium in it.

Seriously though, well spotted.

 

[Lord Monocle Von Banworthy]

Hearing the british version of many words annoys me like mad. (Yes, I realize the reverse is likely too)
Garage for one. Also Aluminum, which over there is Alumin-i-um. That extra syllable irks me.

Ever seen a Periodic table of the Elements? It's spelt Aluminium.

Ever seen a grammar textbook? It's conjugated "spelled."

I'm messing with you, but you set yourself up gorgeously, mate.

I was on about spelt bread, with Aluminium in it.

Seriously though, well spotted.

I thought of this thread yesterday. I was watching first-season Top Gear not because I'm a Clarkson fan but because I love cars, and he was talking about the Nissan 350Z with its aluminum V-6 engine, only he said "Nissan" as if it were a conjugation of the verb "to niss," then numbered the car a 350 zed, and said "aluminium" about ten times in one sentence and I just couldn't take the repeated affronts to my beloved language and had to turn the damned thing off.

Also, Firefox agrees with me and puts squiggly red lines under "spelt," "aluminium," "niss," and of course everyone's name. This means you heathens should really spell-check your names.

 

[Cyanin]

I think Dublin's pretty diverse too though. The difference between people in Tallaght (poorISH area) and Foxrock (RichISH are) are completely different. I think each point on the compass has it's own typical accent, central's probably the easiest to understand. =P

Have you ever stayed in the really central counties (Westmeath, Offaly, Longford)? It is so goddamn boring. No wonder their accent is plain, nothing for them to ever get excited about or talk about.

Oh christ, don't get me started on those counties, i don't know why they're still populated really. The only guy i know who lives in Longford regularly comes over to Dublin to escape it. I think he likes it though...the freak..

The Morbid Midlands.

Down here in the south-east we get a lot of tourists asking us "what?" over and over again.

Shur, feck't.

Haha, there is little more difficult than trying to translate a thick Cork accent. =P

 

[Swifteye]

Tommy wiseau from the room. Nobody can figure out where that guy came from.

 

[Cyanin]

Fake Irish accents. They fail. Minly because there is no Irish accent.

I'm sorry but there is DEFINITELY an Irish accent. If not, then every person that's talked to my family while on holiday has been telepathic because they instantly cop us as Irish, SOMEHOW.

Also, have you talked to anyone from Cork or Wexford? =P

Christ!
I meant there is no singular Irish accent that the American's seem to be so fond of imitating.

Ah, apologies, that was more sarcastic than insanely angry. =P

I think Dublin's pretty diverse too though. The difference between people in Tallaght (poorISH area) and Foxrock (RichISH are) are completely different.

I agree. The D4/Foxrock people piss me off. Especially because the accent was entirely propagated by a bunch of pampered jobless yuppies watching too much American television, to the point that they start sounding like MTV announcers.

In fact, pretty much any accent that has been produced solely by pop culture annoys me. This includes the over-the-top flaming, lisping, "look at me, I'm such an awful queen" accent cultivated by homosexuals. I have no problem with gays expressing themselves, it just irritates me how shallow it is to be forced to turn yourself into a stereotype just to fit in to the gay community. I mean, they weren't born talking like that. They weren't raised to talk like that. It's completely forced.


Edit: The girl from the video. Her accent's annoying, but the part I don't get is why she wants to have a kid so bad. If she's had that much unprotected sex and never gotten pregnant, she's probably barren. All the sluttiness might be trying to fill a deep-seated emotional trauma caused by the fact that she can't conceive.

I do take issue with the forced lisp some people get when they come out. It really makes little sense,but you could always attribute it as a way they subconsciously identify with their new social group. That's just accent in general, no-one realizes there's a different accent until they talk to someone from a different area. Took me AGES to realize i have a posh accent. =P

I think Dublin's pretty diverse too though. The difference between people in Tallaght (poorISH area) and Foxrock (RichISH are) are completely different. I think each point on the compass has it's own typical accent, central's probably the easiest to understand. =P

Have you ever stayed in the really central counties (Westmeath, Offaly, Longford)? It is so goddamn boring. No wonder their accent is plain, nothing for them to ever get excited about or talk about.

Oh christ, don't get me started on those counties, i don't know why they're still populated really. The only guy i know who lives in Longford regularly comes over to Dublin to escape it. I think he likes it though...the freak..

The Morbid Midlands.

Down here in the south-east we get a lot of tourists asking us "what?" over and over again.

Shur, feck't.

Haha, there is little more difficult than trying to translate a thick Cork accent. =P

And that right there is the longest post i've made on the escapist, i'm sure you all hate me for taking up most of this page. =P

 

[Cyanin]

fail at deleting this post. >.<

 

[Ashsaver]

I hate the fake Asian's English accent, especially those in Just Cause 2

 

[mishagale]

Nico Bellic. Where the hell was he meant to be from? "Eastern Europe"? That's a couple of dozen countries, and I'm not sure any of them sound like that. I think near the beginning of the game he might have said he was Serbian, but it's really never discussed much, they just say things like "the old country."

And the mockney guy in Crysis. Psycho. Waaay over the top.

 

[The DSM]

Some Irish is really annoying.

One of my uncles is Irish, the accent is so thick and he talks so fast I dont know what he says I just smile and nod.

 

[minarri]

Anyone who speaks a foreign language with no attempt to improve his or her pronunciation. Otherwise known as almost every teacher I ever worked with when I taught English.

 

[blankedboy]

Any Southern American accent pisses me off, but I seem to love all the other accents

NORWEGIAN ACCENT FTW (and I'm on the far side of the planet from Norway)