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WTF!@+$..... What language are they speaking?


Every once in awhile it sounds vaguely like English. I don't think that I could understand one entire sentence.

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Fink its poikey

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I had to watch the movie with the English subtitles ON..and I am glad I did because I missed too much otherwise.

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There were a mix of accents for a variety of reasons:

Main character - actor is Scottish but was playing a Northern Irish chartacter that has hints of being an Irish Republican terrorist (listen to title and end credit song + link to accent)

Rizza and others - English actors playing London gangster type so they were laying on a thicker accent

Guy who cut ginger off, Brodie and a few background characters - Irish Republic, as they are Irish and was filmed in Dublin so probably local actors

The fact they were mumbling half the time did not help!

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You guys are hilarious, I understood them just fine and English is my second language....

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I had some trouble understanding too. I could understand more than my husband who said he couldn't at all. If only they didn't speak so fast. Even with raising the volume it was still hard.

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