Originally posted by Sushipunk
I sound like a ring-tone.
Pick up the phone mate, come on.
:stongue:
It's a shame that phone drowned and I lost that file :p
I should use that again... if I find it, I'm definitely going to bother you again and ask for a "message alert" to go with it!
srussell0018
quote:
Originally posted by Lira
Wait, what do you sound like?
Very very watered down.
A bit like this, accent wise.
I'm pretty sure he's from a suburb of Dublin called Castleknock, but I'd imagine that wouldn't affect the accent much considering it's only about 5 miles away from center city. I think his accent has just been watered down as well.
One thing I've noticed about other English speaking languages in comparison to Irish English is the intonation of their sentences. Often in the other English speakers, questions are denoted by a raise in pitch towards the end of the sentence. The Irish tend to have kind of a "U" shape to the tone of their sentences, meaning they tend to start at a higher pitch, dip lower, and then end at a slightly elevated pitch, regardless of whether they're asking a question or not.
Sushipunk
quote:
Originally posted by Lira
:stongue:
It's a shame that phone drowned and I lost that file :p
I should use that again... if I find it, I'm definitely going to bother you again and ask for a "message alert" to go with it!
Originally posted by srussell0018
Very very watered down.
A bit like this, accent wise.
I'm pretty sure he's from a suburb of Dublin called Castleknock, but I'd imagine that wouldn't affect the accent much considering it's only about 5 miles away from center city. I think his accent has just been watered down as well.
That sounds pretty awesome!
Does this mean herd, bird, curd don't rhyme for you?
quote:
Originally posted by srussell0018
One thing I've noticed about other English speaking languages in comparison to Irish English is the intonation of their sentences. Often in the other English speakers, questions are denoted by a raise in pitch towards the end of the sentence. The Irish tend to have kind of a "U" shape to the tone of their sentences, meaning they tend to start at a higher pitch, dip lower, and then end at a slightly elevated pitch, regardless of whether they're asking a question or not.
It's one of the "quirks" of Irish English, as I recall it (it's not unheard of in other languages either).
The really weird thing about Hiberno-English is that you do exactly what we do in Portuguese (or so I'm told). If someone asks you a yes-no question, and you want to answer in the affirmative, rather than saying "yes", you just repeat the verb... right? It sounds a lot more natural to me :p
quote:
Originally posted by Sushipunk
Here is the old one :p
Thanks! Can you also tell me I've got a new message? :toothless
srussell0018
quote:
Originally posted by Lira
That sounds pretty awesome!
Does this mean herd, bird, curd don't rhyme for you?
They do for me actually.
quote:
The really weird thing about Hiberno-English is that you do exactly what we do in Portuguese (or so I'm told). If someone asks you a yes-no question, and you want to answer in the affirmative, rather than saying "yes", you just repeat the verb... right? It sounds a lot more natural to me :p
I typically say yes, or sometimes I'll say "aye" but more as a joke than anything else. Maybe if you gave me an example of one of those questions I could better answer.
One thing I say that gets me weird looks sometimes is saying "Sorry?" instead of "What?" or "Excuse me?" when asking someone to repeat what they said, or when getting a stranger's attention to ask for directions or something. That and instead of "do you need any help with that?" or "can I give you a hand with that?" it's "are you okay?"
Tasty Onions
That reminds me: I have picked up one obvious Southernism over the years, which is "Do what?" for "What?" or "Excuse me?"
I never use the execrable "ya'll", though. Barf.
pkcRAISTLIN
quote:
Originally posted by Happymess
:haha: I love how passionate you are about your distaste for the word.
I have a list somewhere of all the "Americanisms" or sayings that cause untold irritation. There are so many.. >.<
hey, what's up? :gsmile:
phyrrus
quote:
Originally posted by Tasty Onions
That reminds me: I have picked up one obvious Southernism over the years, which is "Do what?" for "What?" or "Excuse me?"
I never use the execrable "ya'll", though. Barf.
I support the use of y'all. It is the only way to address the second person plural in English. But I'm from California so it sounds cooler when I do it.
Tasty Onions
"Ya'll" sounds retarded no matter who says it.
Vernon Wanderer
Everything is nice but the hillbilly trailer-trash accents.
A lot of us find the British way of saying things amusing, so it works both ways. When I hear "Car Park", I think "So it's a place where cars have picnics?"
And obviously we say "military" instead of "army", because the Army is just one branch of the military. DUH. It's not like we say "There is a military of soldiers attacking!"
