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  • Austicman
    Austicman Posts: 1,328
    I was brought up in an Irish household in Australia. So I've got them both wired. Amazing where the Irish gets ya when your out and about. Likewise when I was in the states the Aussie worked a treat as well.

    The funniest though is when I meet a girl in being normal Aussie guy and bring her to meet the folkes and I drop back in the Irish accent when I talk to them. I've seen some classic reactions :eek:
    I can't go the library anymore, everyone STINKS!!
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Austicman wrote:
    I was brought up in an Irish household in Australia. So I've got them both wired. Amazing where the Irish gets ya when your out and about. Likewise when I was in the states the Aussie worked a treat as well.

    The funniest though is when I meet a girl in being normal Aussie guy and bring her to meet the folkes and I drop back in the Irish accent when I talk to them. I've seen some classic reactions :eek:
    :D So you're nothing but a fraud then :p
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    Austicman wrote:
    The funniest though is when I meet a girl in being normal Aussie guy and bring her to meet the folkes and I drop back in the Irish accent when I talk to them. I've seen some classic reactions :eek:

    I have this. I'm English as are my folks ... but spent several years living in Scotland. When I go back to the Scotland to visit friends I will get my Scottish accent back ... or when I'm official translator for dunkman on a night out :D ... if I have any English friends with me it gets funny looks. Also have the reverse when my Scottish friends visit me in England as they only know me with a Scottish accent :o
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  • Austicman
    Austicman Posts: 1,328
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    :D So you're nothing but a fraud then :p

    Sez You Lady! After two trips to Ireland before I was 14 I would have kept the Irish accent if I didn't have to repeat myself to every Aussie I met. It was just easier to learn the lingo than having everyone I talk to go WHAT.......SAY AGAIN....HUH???
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Austicman wrote:
    Sez You Lady! After two trips to Ireland before I was 14 I would have kept the Irish accent if I didn't have to repeat myself to every Aussie I met. It was just easier to learn the lingo than having everyone I talk to go WHAT.......SAY AGAIN....HUH???
    :D well after 10 days in the States I've had to retrain myself not to talk about the 'fun in the line' (craic in the queue) or the bathrooms... what the fuck? I just want to piss... not have a fucking bath :D so yeh, I see where you're coming from :D
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • Austicman
    Austicman Posts: 1,328
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    :D well after 10 days in the States I've had to retrain myself not to talk about the 'fun in the line' (craic in the queue) or the bathrooms... what the fuck? I just want to piss... not have a fucking bath :D so yeh, I see where you're coming from :D

    Now thats comedy!!:D
    I can't go the library anymore, everyone STINKS!!
  • tachepiranha
    tachepiranha Posts: 399
    eMMI wrote:
    ohh, I loooooooove Irish and Scottish accents. :o

    I like irish too...scottish, I can't understand a fucking word :confused::D
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  • markymark550
    markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,224
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    :D I woulda gotten by.
    Hehe :D

    I guess the music from the concert would drown out any ma'ams and y'alls that you would hear ;):D
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    tachepiranha wrote:
    I like irish too...scottish, I can't understand a fucking word :confused::D


    thats ok.. neither can I ;)


    i was actually gonna do a youtube xmas message from dunk... and i was going to post a prize to the person who actually understood what i was saying...

    of course i was a wee bit drunk when i thought of this idea :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • gobrowns19
    gobrowns19 Posts: 1,447
    I love the girl who's got the slight New England accent, 'puh-JAW-muh' instead of my 'pa-jah-muh' for pajama and 'aww-nt' instead of my 'ahh-nt' for aunt.

    And don't even get me started on the difference between 'pop' and 'soda.'

    Damn it drives me wild. :D
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  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    dunkman wrote:
    thats ok.. neither can I ;)


    i was actually gonna do a youtube xmas message from dunk... and i was going to post a prize to the person who actually understood what i was saying...

    of course i was a wee bit drunk when i thought of this idea :)


    I had a hell of a time understanding you when you were a bit tipsy. As the evening went on and there was more and more drink, the less I understood!

    My accent is a bit weird :o
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    redrock wrote:
    I had a hell of a time understanding you when you were a bit tipsy. As the evening went on and there was more and more drink, the less I understood!

    My accent is a bit weird :o


    sorry sweetie :o

    i also talk pretty fast which disnae help :D

    i thought your accent was ok!! but you do speak fast as well :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • MattCameronKicksButt
    MattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    I asked this Scottish bloke once what 'Och I dooonooo' meant and he said. 'Erm, I don't know'? (I felt so stupid). :o

    I've been told I don't have an accent. At all, but I think that's rubbish, I'm sure most people would disagree.
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    MattCameronKicksButt wrote:
    I asked this Scottish bloke once what 'Och I dooonooo' meant and he said. 'Erm, I don't know'? (I felt so stupid). :o

    I've been told I don't have an accent. At all, but I think that's rubbish, I'm sure most people would disagree.
    If you didn't have an accent, then you'd be mute. Everyone talks in one way or another that differentiates them from people from different parts of the world.
  • MattCameronKicksButt
    MattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    If you didn't have an accent, then you'd be mute. Everyone talks in one way or another that differentiates them from people from different parts of the world.

    I know that. I'm not sure what people mean. I'd love to hear what I sound like to other people.
  • xscorcho
    xscorcho Posts: 409
    i love accents.. esp. scottish ones.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    xscorcho wrote:
    i love accents.. esp. scottish ones.

    me too!!!
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Sonja_S
    Sonja_S Vienna Posts: 444
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    :D well after 10 days in the States I've had to retrain myself not to talk about the 'fun in the line' (craic in the queue) or the bathrooms... what the fuck? I just want to piss... not have a fucking bath :D so yeh, I see where you're coming from :D

    :D That's funny - my sister and I went to Dublin last weekend. We went to get some dinner and when I couldn't see where the toilets were and decided to ask the waitress we were like 'crap, what are the washrooms called in Ireland again?'. BTW, I found the Irish men quite smooth - my sister was a bit freaked out though.

    Apparently I speak English with a Canadian accent (and vocabulary). One friend of my ex in Calgary actually complained that he was looking forward to my Austrian accent and then I didn't have one. I don't know if that sicko thought Schwarzenegger-English was sexy :p
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Unfortunately 19 years in England has diluted my birth-given Glaswegian accent somewhat (almost entirely) but I can still turn it on at will if needs be ;)
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