Ahoi Catriona! Say, did ye hear that discussion on Leslie's programme on BBC Radio Scotland yesterday round about 12.30 ish? It was very interesting tho I heard only a part of it. It was about whether local radio stations should be allowed to read news and programms in their local dialects. Very enlightening and quite interesting - not to mention the hundreds of various dialects that must be around all over Scotland. If not - its likely to be somewhere on the BBC archives page mebbe. But it was something I thought that might interest you. It was a real wasps nest that Leslie dug into. No real conclusions came up because they ran out of time lol
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I didn't hear it but I wonder how far you could go with it...... Have you ever watched "Chewin the Fat" and seen the "subtitles for neds " part. Being a Glaswegian just the thought of it makes me shudder.
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Jules
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*laughs* Hey, scottish dialects are way cool. My BF speaks the thickest Fife you can ever imagine... and his sister, livin in Dumbarton an interesting mixture of both, Wegie and Fife *grins*
I needed weeks to learn how to understand Craig, as school-english speaker. When he came over to germany the first time he had to repeat everything 2-3 times!
His best friend comes from a wee wee place in the Highlands, which was a complete different accent so I had to get used to that, too! But I can keep scots-dialects from each other by now, but when it comes to other british dialects I can't keep a welshman from an irish lassie
I didn't get to know "Chewin' the fat" until last christmas and Craig, his bro and his sis got me converted quite fast =)
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So far i only know the first series but its a good laugh lol Hehehe i remember when i first was in Scotland in 1996 ( is it already that long ???) and i managed to smash the tyre of my hired car within two hours from picking it up i had a tough time first to understand the guy at the garage loooool . i think they must have thought me blind ignorant lol . but after listening more closely i could work out at least 70 percent of what was said alas
Thanks for the info, FotW. I didn't hear the report - I'm afraid I don't have time to listen to the radio at work, due to my timetable.
I cannot see why we don't have local dialects though, if you look BBC television, their Scotland reporter for news speaks with a broad Islands accent..... If it's good enough for BBC TV...... why not radio?
A question: How many of you have seen the movies Fargo and Drop Dead Gorgeous? Those two movies are fair assessments of the speech patterns in the states of Minnesota and Wisconsin. I know because I have relatives in Minnesota and I went to college in Wisconsin.
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Hehe, I like their reporter that usually reports when something happens in Lochaber =) She has a cool voice...
As far as Americans are concerned, I can keep a Texan from someone who comes from somewhere else, that's as far as it goes with me
FotW: me and my family were in finnland and the same happened... try to get through to a finn that your car wrecked when that finn is A not speaking German, B not speaking english and C you understan NO word of finnish *laughs*
My father is Irish ,he comes from Donegal and we have a holiday house there so I am usually very good with the various accents in Ireland. A couple of years ago I went down to Cork for the weekend but I had huge problems understanding what was being said to me.The accent , to my ears, sounded almost Welsh. I gets a bit embarrassing cos you can only say "I'm sorry?" and "pardon?" so many times without it becoming rude.
Living here in Florida USA has given me a bit of a language complex myself! I can empathize with not being able to understand the various dialects. I went to a restaurant recently and the server went through this long litany of things regarding the menu and all I could do was stare at him! I know he was speaking English, but I did not understand one single word he said! We have people here from all over the world, and going to WalMart can seem like a visit to the Towel of Babel - the din of it all!
I love that quote of James Barrie, Janet! Heheheehe, thats a good one. Where do ye find all these quotes? Aye - t must be worse in the States with the dialects. grin, but i suppose its in every country like that. People from Bremen have usually difficulties in understanding Suebians or Bavarions, and the Cologne dialect as well as the "Platt" of Northern Friesland are all but unintelligible to a "Spaetzleschwob" like me hehe, even tho i emigrated
I went to a restaurant recently and the server went through this long litany of things regarding the menu and all I could do was stare at him! I know he was speaking English, but I did not understand one single word he said!
The worst part about it all was that the guy was from here in the USA - not a foriegner from another country! I think he was from New York or something, because he talked really fast, and his enunication of syllables threw me! I could not understand one word, not one iota of what he was trying to say to me.
I just smiled and shrugged and managed my way through it somehow. When people hear my Appalachian dialect, and my slow southern accent, they tend to think I am a stupid, hillbilly, hick. So I don't say a whole lot unless I am with friends whom I know and trust.
Janet, don't be ashamed of your Appalachian dialect. I'm from the hills too so if I'm out amongst thos citiy dudes, I just d r a w it out a little bit more!
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Janet, don't ever think that! I travel to the Appalachians 3-4 times a year... And I LOVE the dialect. I hope to move there some day. It is where I feel most comfortable and at home. My family comes from the WV area of the Apps. So, it's in me blood..
Oh yeah! Not to mention a lady with a southern draw.....
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