In English please?

[McClef]

I am pleased that Americans are so well up on Dickens Alex!

Learning new words and phrases can only be beneficial so just as I try to adopt American idioms when visiting, so those visiting Scotland can benefit by learning a little Scots.

[gilmore]

Well I suppose the Americans have the same problem when they come over here. I returned to the cloakroom once at Glasgow University students' union to collect my umbrella and asked the new (American) attendant to please hand me my brolly. He came back with it a few moments later and said "I can't find no brolly but I found this gamp."

I have a friend who was originally Scots, but has lived here in the US for over 30 years. When his stepfather in Scotland died, he arranged the funeral over the phone with the undertaker. Since his stepfather had been in the Black Watch, he asked the undertaker to have a piper at the funeral. He flew to Scotland, and when he arrived at the church was handed the local news journal. He asked the undertaker what it was for, and was told, "It's yer piper."

[Archangel]

Dialects in Scotland are so strong that, in Glasgow, it's a different speech a few blocks away.

I don't like the pretend Scots either but it's either accept or not. It's not my call.

One thing that's funny for me is our church "greeters". I've been asked to be one but as anybody raised in Scotland knows you are not going to put on a badge on that proclaims you are a "greeter". It's a little thing but I'm uncomfortable enough that I won't do it.

[Archangel]

After a few minutes of that, I'm a lot happier with p1m, really.

[Nick]

After a few minutes of that, I'm a lot happier with p1m, really.

People always ask if I'm from Canada, but there's a definite difference between Canadian and Yooper accents. As has been said before, writing it doesn't really convey how it sounds. But I wouldn't want to type it all the time any more than you'd want to read it all the time.

MacMullen, ya, eh?!

[The Celtic Gypsy]

vos est mit accents? Dey are gut to show ve are many unt get along ve can do!

(side note - went to factory where they make the Kromer hats - showed them out driver licences and got a free one - ja das est mine family Kromer)

[dpseadvr]

Why do people care how people post I think everybody should be able to post how ever they want. Would people care if those of us from the South and there are a lot of us it looks like started postin in our southern drawl. Yall wouldn't have a problem with that would ya.
I say more posts in Scots I like it.

[ardchoille]

Why do people care how people post I think everybody should be able to post how ever they want. Would people care if those of us from the South and there are a lot of us it looks like started postin in our southern drawl. Yall wouldn't have a problem with that would ya.
I say more posts in Scots I like it.

If I can read it, no.. I wouldn't have a problem with it. I only care because I am unable to read the posts which are written in Scots. If you can't read the parent post of a thread, and can't read half of the replies, the thread can end up making little sense. Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered opening this thread. I thought the folks here were open to accommodation.

[Pour1Malt]

brill!

ai missed this threid 'till the noo....

as wunnerfaely demonstrated by Phil here-

...
Here is a post I made here a wee while back (a little while ago) not meant for general consumption. I have translated - And what's with the "old" and you frae(from) Glesga(Glasgow) too? I slittered a(all) doon(down) masel(myself) when I heard that yin(one). But dinnae(don't) fash(worry) yersel(yourself), efter(after) I plootered(paddled) through the glaur(sticky mess or mud) I fun(found) a cloot(cloth) an slarried(spread messily) it a(all) ower(over) the keyboard. Noo(now) it's a(all) clarty(dirty,messy) but nivver(never) mine(mind). Some is just reproducing english words in a Glasgow accent whereas some are distinctive Scots words - slitterd,fash,plootered,glaur,cloot,slarried,clart y. ...

ai am actually bein' very kind an' gentle in ma use o' Scots oan this boord....

ai rarely hit ya wi' words like glaikit, greet, bampot, coup, coupit yow, eejit, haver, oxter, wabbit... arr oiny o' the other Scots words wi' oot gien ya a wee bit o' help wi' it...

guid discussion though!


as the auld sayin' gaes...

"Wha's Like Us? Damn Few An' They're A' Died!"

[Wompet]

ai rarely hit ya wi' words like glaikit, greet, bampot, coup, coupit yow, eejit, haver, oxter, wabbit... arr oiny o' the other Scots words wi' oot gien ya a wee bit o' help wi' it...

Other than eejit (I use idjit, myself), I would have to see those in context.
'specially since I don't think you mean "Be vewy quiet - I'm hunting wabbits."

I don't find Scots that difficult to read, on the whole. Maybe it's because I've lived and worked in places where I've had to understand different accents, dialects, and languages. Maybe it's because the regional dialect where I grew up is similar in flow, if not vocabulary, to Scots.