One of the favorite stories is about the first time I took my wife to England. She majored in British literature in college and is the type of person who reads Shakespeare for fun, and can even read and speaks middle English. I worked and traveled to England a few times a year and had lived there in my early 20s, before we met.
For our fifth anniversary I took her to England. It was her first time ever leaving the US. In fact the first time she left the southern US.
We’re standing at the curb at Gatwick waiting for a cab and there are two guys behind us talking. My wife leans over and whispers, “what language are they speaking?”
I just started laughing, and explained they were speaking English, they are just Scottish. All that book learning and studying of the language couldn’t prepare her for the Scottish accent.
Does she have a southern US accent? Middle English in a southern drawl sounds fun.
That would be awesome, but her accent is not that strong. She grew up in the suburb.
Awesome, how was meeting Tom Hanks in The 'Burbs?
He seemed nice until he blew up my basement
Haven’t heard that euphemism for reproductive organs yet, and yes Mr Hanks is known for doing that!
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I’m curious about that. I know I shared this story before on Lemmy, but don’t remember saying it on Reddit.
It could very well just be the case that you and your wife’s experience is a common experience.
Up the ante - walk into a Scotsman with a thick Glaswegian accent.
Oh good, an excuse to share one of my favorite videos:
Thought it was gonna be this skit from limmys show haha. That one broke my brain until I binged the show and acquired a passive understanding of glaswegian
Now we’re talking, but it’s still a video game set on average difficulty. It can be hecks worse, trust me. ^^
I stll categorise this as “fairly easy”, maybe “average” difficulty. What breaks my head is some Aussie slang. ^^
Did ye aye
I believe this is where the belter dialect in The Expanse comes from…
Lol, that’s really sweet. But imagine that specific MP to be the first boss in a very lengthy and challenging video game. ^^
Tory MP’s kinda are but the game is Life
I’d put subtitles on for sure!
I could hear what he was saying but he was talking quite fast which makes it harder to understand.
I call the Glasgow Scot and raise one West Country Gerald
I burst out laughing watching this. Reminded me of how my British wife “warned” me about folks’ accent back when I first met her family in rural England.
Honey, I understand them perfectly fine. Won’t you be worrying, love?
:D
Glaswegian is medium difficulty, try Dundee
Scots is a language technically distinct from English.
They mean English spoken with a Scottish accent
Ay, I know… But it’s frequent that folk are ignorant about the language spoken here. It’s not strictly English.
If you’d checked out the link you’d see that it sounds like English a lot of the time, but is its own distinct branch, not just including the pronunciation but the words too.
I’m not talking about Gaelic here, but the the sort of English where you can call someone a fud whilst smiling at them because they don’t know what it means.
What I meant is that you replied directly to the meme but the meme is specifically about someone speaking English with a Scottish accent so saying “Scots is a different language” doesn’t make much sense in this context.
If you had said “Some people don’t realize it but there’s a language specific to Scotland that isn’t English with a Scottish accent” then that would have made more sense.
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Too much troll shagging has fucked them up.
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But most people are talking about Scottish English
“Benendndneebawjdbdya ejdjfjhsbe zmxjsuwhhd”
“I’m sorry I don’t speak Welsh”
“I’m speaking English you dick”
If I can clearly understand Limmy from Limmy’s Show would I be able to get by traveling in Scotland?
Aye until you got to Doric land and Aberdeen
Why is Luke a ghost? Luke died? Spoilers!
Its fine, it’s a fan-fiction film.
Two of my best friends growing up were Scottish and their parents spoke with super thick Scottish accents. Made understanding Trainspotting and reading Irvine Welsh so much easier.
Some of my fondest memories were in my early 20s, their dad would make me a drink and after a few my Irish/English ass would start talking with a Scottish accent. They’d all get a huge kick out of it. To this day even though I grew up with a dad with a heavy Irish accent I still can’t do a proper accent unless I’ve had a few, then I can’t stop it. 😅
