I swear Scottish people are the only ones who type in their own phonetic accent
Scots isn’t just an accent, it’s a language in its own right.Although honestly I’m not sure how much of this is Scots and how much is just specific to Scottish twitter lolSo actually having done some more reading this isn’t Scots - I’m fairly sure this is Scottish English which is somewhat a merging of Scots with English.
Looks a dialect to me
yea and galician “looks like” a dialect of spanish, norwegian “looks like” a dialect of danish, and afrikaans “looks like” a dialect of dutch. hell, i can say english “looks like” a dialect of ulster scots. “dialect”/“accent” and “language” are meaningless words
that being said the text in this post is scottish english, not scots
what I was referring to was the wikipedia definition of Scots
Wikipedia does explain that Scots and English are sister languages, they both descend from Old English. Neither is a dialect.
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Lots of people do it here in Austria too, and I hate it.
A geh, is doch iagendwie liab, oda?
Übahaupt, jetzt wo si Hochdeutsch imma mea duachsetzt, und vü junge Leit übahaupt nimma richtig östareichisch1 redn leanan, missn ma doch schaun, dass unsa Sproch net oafoch ausstiabt, oda?
Mia hom a a longe Tradition, wonns um Mundoatdichtung geht. Da Dichta von da obaöstareichischn Hymne zum Beispü, da Stelzhamer Franz, hot gonz vü in Mundoat gschribn.
Und weis ma grod eifoit: Es gibt a a eigene Wikipedia in unsam Dialekt: https://bar.wikipedia.org/ Oba do dua i ma söm schwah, dass i des vasteh. De is scho in da äagstn von de oagn Mundoatn gschribm.
(So, jetzt woas i net, wöcha Sproch i im Dropdown do untn auswöhn soid… Wei wirklich Deitsch is des jo net…)
[1] I am fully aware that the dialect I’m writing in is not called “Austrian”. The two big dialects spoken in Austria are “Alemannic” and “Bavarian”, and the one I’m writing is the Bavarian dialect. I’m only using the word “östareichisch” here, because that’s what I expect most people to use in spoken conversation.
Oh Gott, Oida. Ich habs gerade geschafft, den Text zu entziffern. Aber ernsthaft, ich glaub bei sowas immer auf den ersten Blick, dass da wer nen Schlaganfall bekommen hat und einfach mit dem Gesicht über die Tastatur gerollt ist lol.
War ja auch nicht ernst gemeint. Ich bin bei diversen Chats im Freundeskreis eigentlich immer der einzige, der auf Hochdeutsch antwortet 😉.
En Gruess us dr Schwytz!
Non e Gruess vor schwiz
Newfies do the same. Was a whole fuckin thing to unlearn when I found the Internet lol
Yes, and so many of them do it wrong, it’s crazy.
Don’t know how many times I’m after seeing “bye” instead of “b’y”. Stunned.
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I hate reading the Americans now typing “y’all”.
I’m a northerner and I still had to accept the unimpeachable logic that y’all is a versatile and useful word
The English language is sorely lacking gender neutral pronouns so it’s nice that one is getting added
It’s not new actually. Maybe revived. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
I meant y’all
“You” is gender neutral, in its singular and plural form. “Y’all” is a useful pal form of “you” but as a New Zealand-English hybrid I do not have the accent to pull it off. If I could shift my accent further north perhaps I could get away with “thou” and “ye” for singular and plural forms, but only where they fit grammatically.
It is explicitly plural where ‘you’ is hard to pull off as plural because it leans heavily towards singular, just like ‘they’ leans heavily towards plural. At least in the US afaik the main competitor is ‘you guys’ for plural, which is one of those terms that is normally meant as gender neutral but the words clearly are not. So despite being from a place where that is the correct way to say it I’m in favor of y’all becoming the standard across the whole language, which it seems like it might be moving towards doing.
“ya’ll” is also American English’s answer to the problem of not have a plural form of “you” (see also: “you guys” or “you all” from which ya’ll is derived).
Due to English being heavily influenced by Romance languages, but not taking its grammatical structure purely from them, we really had no single-word version of “vous” (I don’t know other romance languages aside from French).
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Is it tho? I have to often times actually cool off people I know because they praise USA so hard without knowing shit.
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I’m not American and I will forever type y’all because it’s useful and I like it lol
Y’all is just a useful word, other ways of referring to a group of people are ambiguous, esp. now that They doesn’t always mean multiple
y’all is a legitimate word and i’ll fight you over it.
I miss scottishpeopletwitter, did that move over here?
U can make one, then post the reddit posts here until the sub goes off
The least politically loaded and agenda-pushing peopletwitter. That sub encapsulates the lightheartedness of Scottish people.
Just don’t ask them about Brexit
I understood that, surprisingly.
2nd attempt, but I got there
First attempt I was like “wtf am I reading?” then I read it with a Scottish accent and it made perfect sense
The names James, Bond James, Bond James is having a stronk call the bondulance
Bond Name’s the james
Nonds the name, bames nond. bames Nonds having a strong. Please call the bondulance
Words can’t describe how much I love this tweet.
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They have trouble getting elevators to understand them too.
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Is there a Duolingo for this particular language?
I am lovin it!
“Ye x”? So her ex?
x = kiss
I think I’m having a stroke.
legible
Most legible
Most is doing a ton of heavy lifting there.
I wonder if pirate talk origins are from Scotland 🤔.
I know for sure, it something about lesbians…
I am not a native speaker. Prolonged exposure to the demoman from TF2 meant that I could understand all of this on first try. I am proud.
“Being a lesbian sucks sometimes. You tell another girl she’s a hottie, and she says, “thanks” like we’re being friendly. I ain’t just being friendly, I’m trying to fuck!”
I think I translated it correctly.
Thanks for translating. As a non native English speaker I nearly got a stroke trying to understand these… words.
To assist:
- Lesbo: short for lesbian
- Pish: an expression of frustration
- Bangin’: hot
- nd: and
- ye: you
- am no: I’m not
- tae: to
- yer: your
- pal: friend
- shag: have sex with
I got all of that except “shag ye x,” because it sounds like “shag (fuck) you x,” where “x” is the subject that is a bit vague. Like, “I’m trying to shag you, love?” or “Fuck your ex,” as in, the last person you broke up with?
“x” is a kiss, used as an informal “yours truly” in British English digital correspondence
Wait, I thought ‘x’ was hug and ‘o’ was kiss. Have I been wrong all these years??
X is kiss, O is hug (at least, in the UK it is)
that is also how it’s always been explained to me
Pretty sure it’s the x in “xoxo”, the old convention for hugs and kisses.
xoxo… the old convention for hugs and kisses.
The release of Shrek is closer to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the invention of the Sony Walkman than it is to today
Should watch still game. You’ll end up with a brain aneurysm trying understand the Scottish pensioner’s
As a native English speaker I nearly got a stroke trying to figure out what it said
I had to imagine Karen Gillan saying it
Oi