One of the first ones I used was "dolly", which is Dublin slang for a good looking woman. (Not that hard to figure out, eh...)
One of the standards, of course is "sh!te" (trying to keep the spelling PG-13 here...) It's not unique to Dublin by any stretch of the imagination, but it certainly is used there.
Then I found one that I really liked as an expletive/expression of shock: "F*ckin’ Jaysus!" That is pure Irish! Not only crude, but blasphemous as well! Works great!
However, I started feeling that I needed more than a phrase here and there. I wanted the spots where she slips into her accent to seem more authentic, so I started looking up videos of Dublin accents so I could listen to them. That's when I heard the thing that I used to know and had forgotten about: The Dublin accent (and much of Ireland, actually) replaces the "TH" sound at the beginning of MOST, but not ALL, words with a hard "T" sound. Many accents will replace that "TH" with a "D". (French Canadian, for instance, is one.) But the hard "T" is more of a challenge. In addition, there are other spots where the "TH" IS replaced by a "D" sound, usually in the middle of words like "Brother" (Brudder) or "Other" (Udder). But the thing that truly makes the Dublin accent distinctive, is the hard "T". But it isn't always hard. For instance, one the videos I found, the world THE was usually pronounced "duh" (or da) and not "ta". So "the thing" would be "da ting".
So anyway, I've been having loads of fun with this stuff... (Though not much of the story is written in the accent...)Statistics: Posted by Zen — Fri Jun 16, 2017 10:19 pm
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