Tuesday, July 3, 2007
It is starting to get a little irritating, so it is!!!
For those of you who don't know I am a Belfast boy now living in England. One of the traits that us Belfast people has is that we tend to put a little extra few words on the end of sentences such as:
She is pregnant, so she is.
I am 20, so I am.
Liverpool just qualified for the champions league, so they did.
Now this comes naturally to me and I can't help say it but over recent weeks, people have been constantly picking up on it (well more than normal). It is starting to get a little irritating because I am talking and people just go 'Oh he did it again, say I am 20, so I am again'. It has got to the point where I now here myself say it, which was never the case. I am even beginning to hear my friends and family say it when I am on the phone to them.
I shouldn't complain too much as I know may blokes would die to have my accent as it is always a big hit with the ladies (not that it much use to me). When I was in Australia, I got nicknamed the irish silver tongued cavalier because I only had to speak and the ladies would like me (I managed to share a 4-bed dorm with 3 attractive ladies, and then a 6-dorm with 5 ladies) which really annoyed the other blokes. But even this is beginning to annoy me now. I have girls who just want me to speak ... what's all this about?!?! What to fuck am I supposed to say?!?
Finally, people have also started to make fun the way I say some words: dannyboy1982 and Matt were trying to get me to say certain words just for their enjoyment. It is getting rather tedious!!!
Words I seem to say funny are: eight, bottle, battered, dozen, maths plus many others ... think I may start a list.
PS: Note that three is not on the list ... it may come as a major shock to some people but peeps from Northern Ireland are perfectly capable of pronouncing three correctly (in other words, we don't say tirty tree and a terd!!)
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You should probably add 'arse' to your list to!
You should probably add 'arse' to your list too!
i don't know why the above has appeared twice! ooops, sorry!
Livejournal doesn't seem to like campus IP addresses so i'm forwarding this from matt! ;)Chris: hee, I'm sorry! To your credit, I find the way everybody talks amusing, and have always routinely got people to say words I find funny again. (With Tony, it's "corridor"; with Cath it's "thief", and with Danny it's "feminism" - and my dad's family is Irish, and I do it to them too.)And have you heard the way I speak? It's all threehundredsixty beats a minute and most of the words have no middle. Or meaning, come to that.Matt :) xx
I am only messing about ... I am not really all that offended. It's just been weird having so many people pick up on it lately.And as I said ... I shouldn't really complain ... it makes me stand out!!
me now. I have girls who just want me to speak ... what's all this about?!?! What to fuck am I supposed to say?!? *************************************************well as a girl i'd say the accent is probably very cute. i wish i could hear you talk:(
Aaww .. thanx, I kinda gathered that it must be. When I was working in a nightclub over here I had girls who wanted me to stop working and just speak random crap which is a bit worrying (esp when you see what drunken english girls are like).Oh well ... I really really should be grateful.
i dont mind any of the stuff you've said above i find it amusing but what gets me is when i use everyday words like dander,scundered and banjaxed, and people wonder what the hell im on about lol
what do they mean, if i may? well, the cutest i heard is my music teachers husband. but that was only an english accent. the american southern accent is quite fun to listen to, especially since they're so far away from the west coast. so, accents from far off places are cute:P
dander is to go for a wee walk aboutscundered is when your very embarrassedand banjaxed is when somethings broken or your really wrecked/tired/drunk theres like a site called speak norn iron which is really funny if your from home but it is actually very good at explaining alot of our slang and that worth a look if only for amusement
goodness, tonight i will undoubtedly be banjaxed:P
I haven't noticed that too much but then I don't use those words all that often. Am surprised they don't understand them in Scotland as they usually use the same words as us!!
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