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Eric Dier
Came on as a HT sub tonight for Bayern. Gave a post-match interview, in English, but gone full Joey Barton. Only there a week and he had a distinct German lilt on him.
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He was brought up there, wasn't he?
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Thanks. Just googled him. He lived for a while in Lagos where I have an apartment and played for Esperanca de Lagos's youth team. Their old ground is just down from where I lived. The new ground is a soulless affair on the eastern edge of the town. In the late '70s, Esperanca used to get crowds of almost 1,000 in the old ground. I bet there was some atmosphere.
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Honestly this kind of comment pisses me off.Tricky Trevor wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 11:26 pmCame on as a HT sub tonight for Bayern. Gave a post-match interview, in English, but gone full Joey Barton. Only there a week and he had a distinct German lilt on him.
Ive been over here 30 years, if I call my sister in 10 minutes my Burnley comes back, but it doesn’t necessarily because she’s lived in Durham married to a Wearsider for 25 years so it’s sort of a hodgepodge. If I go back to Kentucky in 10 minutes my Kentucky comes back. If I go back to Virginia my Virginia comes back. In New Mexico, there isn’t really an accent, more of a Native American rhythm of accentuating certain things, kind of sounds like a Canadian doing a Spanish class. After 8 years here, I’m doing the rhythm.
Why do people think it’s so ******* weird that people that move around a lot (you know, like professional sportsmen) can just seemlessly fall back into a way of speaking that makes it easier to communicate?
It’s soooo weird
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Totally agree.CharlieinNewMexico wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:52 amHonestly this kind of comment pisses me off.
Ive been over here 30 years, if I call my sister in 10 minutes my Burnley comes back, but it doesn’t necessarily because she’s lived in Durham married to a Wearsider for 25 years so it’s sort of a hodgepodge. If I go back to Kentucky in 10 minutes my Kentucky comes back. If I go back to Virginia my Virginia comes back. In New Mexico, there isn’t really an accent, more of a Native American rhythm of accentuating certain things, kind of sounds like a Canadian doing a Spanish class. After 8 years here, I’m doing the rhythm.
Why do people think it’s so ******* weird that people that move around a lot (you know, like professional sportsmen) can just seemlessly fall back into a way of speaking that makes it easier to communicate?
It’s soooo weird
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Does speaking English, with a German accent make it easier to communicate with Germans though?CharlieinNewMexico wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:52 amHonestly this kind of comment pisses me off.
Ive been over here 30 years, if I call my sister in 10 minutes my Burnley comes back, but it doesn’t necessarily because she’s lived in Durham married to a Wearsider for 25 years so it’s sort of a hodgepodge. If I go back to Kentucky in 10 minutes my Kentucky comes back. If I go back to Virginia my Virginia comes back. In New Mexico, there isn’t really an accent, more of a Native American rhythm of accentuating certain things, kind of sounds like a Canadian doing a Spanish class. After 8 years here, I’m doing the rhythm.
Why do people think it’s so ******* weird that people that move around a lot (you know, like professional sportsmen) can just seemlessly fall back into a way of speaking that makes it easier to communicate?
It’s soooo weird
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After 30 years, fair do’s and totally understandable.
After a week?
After a week?
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Looking at his dates he seems to have spent about 13 year in Portugal and 17 in London, guess that explains why he has a German twang all of a sudden within 7 days.
There must be a lot of footage of him with a Portuguese accent.
There must be a lot of footage of him with a Portuguese accent.
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My uncle lived in Germany; he worked there for as long as I could remember. He was working with Germans and people from all over the world, presumably speaking English.
Whenever he came home to visit, he spoke slowly with a German accent. My cousins, who are both in their 30s now, although fluent in English, German and French with English parents, have strong German accents and speak like him, very slowly and carefully.
His wife, my auntie, was an English Teacher, and she speaks pretty much with a Queens English accent now.
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You have to remember that he won’t realise and it’s because his new teammates are speaking English to him but obviously with a German accent, so he’s reflecting that. It’s a non issue for me
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I believe in medical circles it's known as Steve McLaren Syndrome.
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It's not even that bad, certainly not on a par with McClaren's comedy Dutch accent. Didn't he have a bit of an accent anyway due to his time in Portugal? Plus, he's talking to a German reporter by the sounds of it, so is probably just trying to fit in a bit.
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And… because he speaks with an accent so exceedingly rare people on here have a go at him?
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Have you never heard him talk before? He doesn’t have an English accent to start with.
Multilingual and a bright guy, good luck to him.
Multilingual and a bright guy, good luck to him.
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Has he ever lived in Germany? What's he "falling back" in to?
I'm pretty sure that if your mate from Colne went to Torremolinos for a week and came back speaking like Pep Guardiola, you'd be taking the p***.
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I have the same problem at the Colne Road branch to be fairCharlieinNewMexico wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:52 amIf I go back to Kentucky in 10 minutes my Kentucky comes back.
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I find when I'm at an international conference and I'm talking to different people all over the world. I talk a bit like Eric Dyer does - nowhere near as bad as that though. You just reflect on how they are speaking to you.
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Its similar to when I go to Burnley for the football (from down south) only for 1 day that I pick up an accent again to the horror of my other half, I lived there for 16 years before moving back south. It only takes a few hours conversing with people and you begin to assimilate the accent. It really is nothing more than that and as I said above, he is conversing with Germans speaking in English with him, so they will have a German accent and he has picked up on that.
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my Mrs speaks in a completely different way after she's spoken to her dad on Skype for a few hours, H's get dropped and all sorts. Very easy to pick up the surroundings
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Whoever I'm speaking to, regardless of the circumstances, I speak exactly the same.
I don't order a Curry trying to sound like Ghandi or order a Pizza thinking I'm the Godfather.
I don't order a Curry trying to sound like Ghandi or order a Pizza thinking I'm the Godfather.
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Not sure how your reply fits my post, however I don't have a mate in colne ....but if I had, and they did that, yes I would
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I work in Germany. The accent I use when speaking English to my German colleagues has to be very different to the one I use when speaking to the Manchester office, as they simply don't understand my broad Lancashire accent.
It's about finding the best way to communicate with someone who doesn't speak English as a first language.
It's about finding the best way to communicate with someone who doesn't speak English as a first language.
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How Dier gets away with it being so slow I really don’t know.
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It's called mirroring. It comes naturally when you want to fit in, but don't speak a word of their lingo, when all around you are fluent in English. Everyone does it to some extent.
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This does happen for polyglots, actually. Lucky so-and-sos are gifted like that.
I spoke with a slight French tilt when I came home after being there for long enough, but certainly not within a week. OnceI had a conversation in French at Gatwick with another English person.
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Alleh facking lujah.ChrisG wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 7:09 pmI work in Germany. The accent I use when speaking English to my German colleagues has to be very different to the one I use when speaking to the Manchester office, as they simply don't understand my broad Lancashire accent.
It's about finding the best way to communicate with someone who doesn't speak English as a first language.
Someone gets it.
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My uncle has lived in calgary for about 15 years. Last time I spoke to him he had a hybrid english/Canadian accent. By the time I finished speaking to him, his Burnley accent was coming back.
Dier is obviously copying the style of English his teammates will be using with him. He's then used it in an interview with someone else who is German and speaking that style of English. Added in that he didn't have an English accent to start with and that's why he's done it. But after what Joey Barton and Steve McClaren did, it does seem quite funny
Dier is obviously copying the style of English his teammates will be using with him. He's then used it in an interview with someone else who is German and speaking that style of English. Added in that he didn't have an English accent to start with and that's why he's done it. But after what Joey Barton and Steve McClaren did, it does seem quite funny