fun confrontation at convenience store

**Alan H** · 17th February 05, 11:36 AM

Hi 5's.

Best post of the week award, right here.

**Hamish** · 17th February 05, 05:42 PM

Thank you for the 'translation' Magnus. I needed it! I am sorry, but if that was 'Scottish' then it must have been in a local 'Brigadoon' accent - pure fantasy!!

**Riverkilt** · 17th February 05, 10:03 PM

No kidding??? Women are as good as sheep? Guess I should try one...

Ron

**Doc Hudson** · 17th February 05, 10:36 PM

Originally Posted by Magnus Sporrano

OK I had some fun with that one. Ran it through an English->Scot/Brogue translator.

Would you share the URL for that translator? The only dialectizer I've found is the one at www.rinkworks.com , and it doesn't have Scott burr or Irish brogue listed.

**philibeg** · 17th February 05, 11:13 PM

There is actually a very nice book (ye can git hit online, wi twa CDs en aw!!) for learnin Scots (the joke translated here appears, by the use of "quine" for "lass", to be in Aiberdonian, or the variant from Aberdeen, which is also what this book is all about) called the Luath Scots Learner, by Colin Wilson. Its nice, cause once you've gotten through it you can read with little trouble the fantastic Scots literary magazine Lallans. The current issue has some very funny stories and a few lovely poems....also a translation of Baudelaire!!

Scots is a lovely language, well worth the effort and unjustly neglected and denegrated as low-class by snobish highbrows and Gaelic enthousiasts....of course the Lowlanders didn't wear kilts, but we can forgive then that can't we? And their language is an interesting relative of Chaucerian English and modern Dutch......

**wolfgang** · 18th February 05, 03:47 AM

Originally Posted by mcnice

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@wolfgang: des muss man lesen wie es da steht, nicht verenglischen, dann kommts durchaus dem norddeutschen hin oder nicht?

@mcnice:
Es gibt Dinge, die will ich gar nicht verstehen, wie die Sache mit den Schafen und den Frauen.

Plattdeutsch ist nicht Norddeutsch. Plattdeutsch ist eine eigenständige Sprache mit verschiendenen Dialekten, Norddeutsch hingegen ein Akzent.

There are things I don't want to understand, as the things with sheep and woman.

Lower German is not Nothern German. Lower German is a language with different dialects, where Northern German is a accent.

**Muddy** · 18th February 05, 05:16 PM

Magnus that's funny. You're a hoot mon.
Are you telling us this actually happened?
In the "first person" or is it just a joke you
heard?
Reminds me of the joke about why do Scots shag
their sheep at the edge of a cliff............
(makes 'em push back harder).

**Magnus Sporrano** · 18th February 05, 07:18 PM

This is a true story. It unfolded just as I described.

You going to be at the Gathering in August? Seek me out saturday night, and I guarantee an "interesting" evening.

**Muddy** · 18th February 05, 08:17 PM

What gathering? I must have missed a thread.
Haven't been on in a while......
You bringing the sheep? I can be sheep wing-man.

**Magnus Sporrano** · 19th February 05, 01:00 AM

It's one of the "sticky threads" at the top of the forum index. Two weeks in Vancouver this august. I'm going to be there for three days of the gathering. Forum members are coming in from around the world.