Scottish accents

[domhnall]

Having just encountered problems on this front (but in written form) it amused me when this popped up on facebook this afternoon

 

 

[BO60BYS]

suck ma wolly !

[mender]

Ach away, ya gleikit neep  :sun:

[VWD]

stop havering,mender.

Edited 4 December, 2014 by VWD

[Aspman]

Some of it is so true to life especially those feckin voice recongnition systems on phone systems.

 

Had a data security specialist across from the USA, he was having trouble with the accents around the table, we just told him everything we say is encrypted by default.

Edited 4 December, 2014 by Aspman

[briskycat]

I'll post it here in order to not start another thread on Irish accents. Turn subtitles on

Edited 4 December, 2014 by briskycat

[Aspman]

 

"Set phasers to malkie"

[kilted]

 

"Set phasers to malkie"

They'll no ken whit yer talkin aboot.

 

Seriously voice recognition is destined to fail where accents are concerned - Gordie, Scouse, Manc, Yorkshire and Welsh to name a few

[Auric Goldfinger]

 Ye but, no but, Ye but, no but, Ye but, ......................

[meta55b]

Fit like ma loon/Quine.

[VWD]

Some might like the tale. Thirty odd years ago i ended up working in what was once Rhodesia ,near the South African border. I hail from a North West coast fishing village(with a high east coast content and language),but have lived all over Scotl;and, so I'm multi dialectic .Our elitrician came from Motherwell, with a broads Scots accent, so we had a field day with the locals. Then one day the mobile mechanic arrived. We'd had our fill of the whites yaping away in Africaans, and the natives in yaba yabba, so we started in East coast and had a field day with no one understanding us.

[Aspman]

Ah the Doric.

 

SWMBO's family are from Inverurie so I'm occasionally exposed to a broadside of Doric. I can get by these days but some-things still throw me. Her uncle writes poetry and other things in Doric. Fit fah foo.

 

I can do Angus Teuchter and Dundee "eh Peh", ken?

Edited 5 December, 2014 by Aspman

[kilted]

My father in law was from Stonehaven and broad as anything. Normally managed to piece a sentence together from the context but like you occasionally thrown by one out of left field.

 

Remember the Aberdonian shoe shop assistant "fit like fit fit?

[fabdavrav]

Having lived in the USA & spent the last 20yrs in Scotland, wit some in Aberdeen, I understand doric, & most weird accents & can "fake it" if need be to fit in........................however if I really want to screw with them I revert to my home town on Saf Landan....................

[WeirdKerr]

och aye the now its a braw moon licht nicht the nicht......

[Ootohere]

Noo

[Aspman]

A bein peh a plehn peh an an ingin ein an aw

 

ken.

 

Not quite sure what the official canon of that Dundee shibboleth is.

[Ootohere]

An onion bride had 2 holes and without only 1.

[slider]

Fit like ma loon/Quine.

ah, the land o the furry bouts

[Cleo]

Mibby it's me, but I'd rather have an Irish, Canadian or American accent than Glasgow, I don't like it never have

[Ootohere]

We have Alex Salmond (ex FM) standing for Westminster & a wind up & the 'Que sera sera' factor

Maybe Google 'We have a dream', for cheesy youtube.

or

the Real Scotland. The series.

 

On the East.

Then the nice West further North.

Edited 7 December, 2014 by goneoffSKi

[Aspman]

Should have given her a mince roll :p

[kilted]

Should have given her a mince roll :p

Prefer a Scotch pie roll myself! Mmmmmm

[Aspman]

Prefer a Scotch pie roll myself! Mmmmmm

 

That's a southern thing

 

Hadn't heard of it until someone from Clacks talked about it.

[kilted]

That's a southern thing

 

Hadn't heard of it until someone from Clacks talked about it.

Don't knock it until you have tried it! Mmmmm - think that's dinner sorted!