“Oh miei giorni, fratello”: quando i tuoi figli irlandesi iniziano a parlare come i loro amici inglesi

Ha ha got you beeches.

What did he expect? His child living in London to have a thick Westmeath accent?

I was on the train into Dublin a few months ago and there were two girls in front of me having a discussion and every now and again I could hear

“Nah blood, for real…”

“Nah fam”

Very odd to hear in thick Dublin accents

I love a bit of accent bashing. Can we do the D4 one next? And then the yupbro one?

Raises child in England:

Is outraged when she has an English accent

Journalism, modern journalism people. And these people wonder why they’re a dying medium.

Social media.

You wot? 🙃

But seriously how can you tell? Working class slang overlaps so heavily with Irish slang that for years I thought I was using English slang in some cases.  There’s a couple of Irish specific ones(good ol “banjaxed”). But I’m sure I first heard “cop on” from an English person. 

I’m on the spectrum and suspect I was very sheltered.

You’re ‘avin’ a larf, aintcha? 

You get me bruv your ting was in my yard yeh and oh my days she was butters bruv butters

I was more taken a back when I heard a two women in London speaking in RP and one said to the other “OMG would you ever feck off!”

Language gets around and I think at the moment the gloss is very much gone off all things American, so the drift towards US phrases and accents seems to be declining.

I prefer that to the Americanisms I see on here

Bring back bullying with a focus on moron kids using fake moronic accents.

My ex Irish kids, you mean.

mandem making wet accusations cuz

Of all the phrases out there, “oh my days” just seriously annoys me. Like what does it even mean? What are your days? Why are you calling on them? “Oh my god” makes sense as you are calling on your god for support during this moment of awe/struggle. But “oh my days”? No logic in it.

Honorary second place to “living my best life”. You only have one life! It’s simultaneously your worst, best, smelliest, shortest, longest, sluttiest and mayonaissiest life.

Thank you for reading today’s installment of trivial, meaningless things that I allow myself to be annoyed by. Stay tuned for tomorrow’s column where I will rant about people who queue beside you in the supermarket, instead of behind you.

I was surrounded by English people while living in a hostel in Brisbane and one the day I heard the words “that’s bare annoying” come out of my mouth. Never been so disappointed in myself

I cannot abide Irish people calling each other “mate” and if I hear someone say it I instantly assume they’re a cunt.
It just sounds so slimely and insencere, lad, bai, pal etc are all fine, but absolutely never ever mate. Their overuse of “mate” is by far one of the worst things about British English, so how in the living breathing fuck it took off in Ireland as well is beyond me.

Could always pull a Cillian Murphy and move back home to avoid the accent altogether.

>When your Irish kids start talking like their English friends

If you think that’s bad, you should’ve seen my granddad’s reaction when I told him I wanted to play rugby for England (he and my dad are Irish but I was born/raised in England).