Why can no one understand me when I speak in Northern Irish?

[KittyGirl]

why can no one understand me when I speak northern irish? its almost like another language! i mean come on! how can you not understand this

" an i says i! that eejit's a ballbeg, an im ganna knak his black aff! "

i mean i dont acctually talk like that, but i asked my friend in england and he didnt hav a clue, so if you know what this means, and youre not from northern ireland, will u write back?..................please?

[joko]

that idiots a ball bag and i am going to knock his block off

(i am from liverpool though)

[cascarelli]

Is that a common phrase in Northern Ireland?!

[saxy_jag]

I don't have a problem with the Irish accent at all - much easier than some Yorkshire I've heard (which I think is just a ploy to prevent the rest us from infiltrating their secret society).

Matter of fact, where some people complain that the Northern Irish accent is hard, I quite like it. It's honest.

[crete]

i like the accent like the west of scotland it can be difficult because they speak very fast

[kick3m0n]

Hey Kitty, I can understand the spoken northern irish accent very well, no problem at all. bawbag (ballbeg) and eejit are common words for me to use too - being as I am from the west coast of scotland. I absolutely love your accent (find it very sexy to be honest, tho I'm a girly, so not flirting here babes lol), particularly like the words "shower" and "towel" when you say them. As crete says, west of scotland and northern irish folk tend to speak quite quickly and that trips up those who are slow of understanding, shall we say (lmao).

[chazza]

The Northern Irish tend to speak very fast (or so I'm told), and that's why people find it difficult to follow us!

[cascarelli]

Geordie is the worst for me - can't understand a word of it!! They probably think I'm really thick when they have to repeat everything 3 times for me (which is probably true I must admit!).

[Ethel]

I knew a Thailand girl who was in England studying.

Her lecturers had distinctive accents - Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland. She could understand all of them, but could not detect the accents. They all sounded the same.

[KittyGirl]

hmm, u like the way we shower? like shaar? and towel is toul? i often find our accents annoying, well i mean belfast, kells, but a ballymena accent is just hilarious! well thankio for the.....replys

[dot.hawkes]

I like the phrase the Noren Irish use, we'll all be on a pigs back.......still don't know what it means, and they say Preemark not Primark too, which is funny.

[Cobra2]

I love Irish birds...they accent is soooo sweet

[poorclare]

Not everyone from Northern Ireland talk SHAAR & TOUL

[KittyGirl]

i know not everyone says shaar and toul, but thats just what im used to hearing

[KittyGirl]

wait, joko's wrong, it means that guy's an idiot and im gonna punch him in the face!