There may be a topic on this so sorry if starting one again
Just watching this on TV, nothing offensive or anything, but why do travellers from different parts of Ireland all sound the same?
They seem to have no local accent, even dealing with travellers in Belfast , they all seem to have a very strong southern accent even though they may have been born in belfast,
What's a very strong Southern accent? There are tons of different accents here.
Do you think we all sound the same?
no not at all, Louth, dublin, wexford, cork, all accents are different and you can pick up in general where abouts someone is from, In belfast you would mistake them from down round Limerick even though they have been born up here
Quote from: hardstation on August 30, 2013, 09:57:22 PM
Quote from: laoislad on August 30, 2013, 09:41:42 PM
What's a very strong Southern accent? There are tons of different accents here.
Do you think we all sound the same?
There are a right few different accents up here but you would know a northern accent if you heard it.
Ye all sound the same to me.
Its not hard to pick out a Ballymena accent up here lol, A derry city accent is very different than a south derry one, Armagh people from Crossmaglen sound different that the Lurgan crowd, Cork is the stand out accent down south, pick a cork person out off a crowd easy.
With Travellers it is very hard to distinguish where they are from, maybe it is with moving around but alot of travellers are settled now.
There's 2 shows that make me want to kick the TV in, and this is one of them.
The big lad with the tash used to do a fair bit of boxing and maybe still does. He's some bear of a man.
Thought i seen the father in the sunday world a few times alright
Quote from: orangeman on August 31, 2013, 12:47:08 AM
The big lad with the tash used to do a fair bit of boxing and maybe still does. He's some bear of a man.
Youtube is full of him mouthing and slabbering.
A great example to his up and coming kin.
Shotgun Wedding (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-31424976)
Bizarre thing is what the Priest said - Asked what he did then, he said: "I went on ahead with the wedding - I could do nothing else, because they were anxious to get this girl married.
There'll be some craic at the reception.
Quote from: Nigel White on February 11, 2015, 08:54:57 PM
Bizarre thing is what the Priest said - Asked what he did then, he said: "I went on ahead with the wedding - I could do nothing else, because they were anxious to get this girl married.
I think he just wanted it over and done with....
Racism is alive and well.
When did travellers become a separate Race?
OK, counsel has a point of semantics. But is he suggesting that wishing them dead because they're travellers is OK because it's not, strictly speaking, racism?
QuoteWhen did travellers become a separate Race? [\quote]
Ever since the suffered abject discrimination for being what they are rather than who they are
Right lads, ease up on the old ethnic insults, not acceptable.