JaiDee Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Great old song by Sham 69....but a few weeks back, a real Ulster boy made the news with his take on the word "frostbit" and other musings on the cold Northern Irish weather and it went viral! People from Japan to America were charmed by his country accent. Do you think you could translate what he's saying without the subtitles? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMOHvEVVpGM Quote Link to comment
Hefe Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Fantastic energy in that brogue! A long time ago I worked for several years with a contractor who came from a village on the north end of No. Ireland & had what sounded like a Scot's accent. My mother is from the Republic & I grew up surrounded by brogues but I never heard one that sounded like his... it's amazing all the regional variations in such a small island, I guess isolation fostered this. 1 Quote Link to comment
pentire Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Goodness me that is a strong accent, almost as though he's playing to the camera. I've a number of good friends from Northern Ireland and while one of them can be quite difficult to understand on the phone, this fella's dialogue goes to another level. Be interesting to read what our members resident in NI think of this characters screenplay. Quote Link to comment
ciobha Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Yep, some of the errr, "country folk" from our small and pleasant land, may as well come from a different planet. I used to work with 2 guys from Portadown, which is about 35 miles south of Belfast. I can tell you without fear of contradiction, there were times when they spoke I just had to nod my head and pretend I knew what they were saying, such was the rarity of their brogue. Same of people from Ballymena, which is about the same distance North of Belfast. A whole language of their own, bless 'em. 1 Quote Link to comment
JaiDee Posted February 1, 2015 Author Share Posted February 1, 2015 The first Northern Irish guy I ever met was actually from Portadown as well; this was way before I ever started traveling in Asia and met all sorts of people from there as well as lots of other Euro countries, which really broadened my horizons. He pronounced it "Porta-doon." He was rather easy to understand for the most part, but when we used to have some chats about The Troubles and the true cause of them, it would get really confusing.....once he gave me a book, a novel but based on fact from around 1380, and said "JD, read this book and you will understand everything." Unfortunately, after reading I was more confused than ever :-) The very first Belfast accent I ever heard was from Jake Burns, talking to the crowd in between songs and telling us "you people are lucky, you have no idea what it's like growing up in a war zone." That was back in1980, the Nobodies Hero tour. Quote Link to comment
JaiDee Posted February 1, 2015 Author Share Posted February 1, 2015 "Ahhh, just.... Wal-come ta Daairy''! Quote Link to comment
bumblebee Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Same of people from Ballymena, which is about the same distance North of Belfast. A whole language of their own, bless 'em. Yea some of those guys have a sorta Canadian twang to their accent. Quote Link to comment
SiamSam Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Yea some of those guys have a sorta Canadian twang to their accent. I'd be careful there young fella.You might say somethin' that could upset some folk. Now we wouldn't want that, would we?! Quote Link to comment
Jimslim Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Goodness me that is a strong accent, almost as though he's playing to the camera. Yes I think he is, apparently he has a YouTube page where he does impersonations of that Irish legend Daniel O'Donnell . It is a cracking accent though and yes people do talk like that especially in the Derry direction , when someone from there say's the word one as in " I'll have one please " it is pronounced waaaannn . Speaking of Daniel O'Donnell I remember reading a few years back that Barack Obama planned to acknowledge the part he had played in American history when he visited Dublin . I had to do a double take but he was in fact referring to Daniel O Connell who was a strong advocate for abolishing slavery and not the County Donegall warbler . Quote Link to comment
williethepimp Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Yes I think he is, apparently he has a YouTube page where he does impersonations of that Irish legend Daniel O'Donnell . It is a cracking accent though and yes people do talk like that especially in the Derry direction , when someone from there say's the word one as in " I'll have one please " it is pronounced waaaannn . Speaking of Daniel O'Donnell I remember reading a few years back that Barack Obama planned to acknowledge the part he had played in American history when he visited Dublin . I had to do a double take but he was in fact referring to Daniel O Connell who was a strong advocate for abolishing slavery and not the County Donegall warbler . nice one jim.....reminds me of the joke about dan o D,maggie thatcher and the rev ian paisley....and.the hitman with only 2 bullets.....who does the hitman shoot? Quote Link to comment
bumblebee Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Go on Willie put us out of our misery... Quote Link to comment
williethepimp Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Go on Willie put us out of our misery... daniel o donnell twice,just to make sure he's dead Quote Link to comment
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