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Do you understand what Scottish people are saying?
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Frog Act
Feb 10, 2012



so i've been trying to watch this scottish sitcom on netflix, and i can only understand like 60-70% of what these people are saying. is scots legitimately a different dialect of English? can any goons from the British isles weigh in on this?

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Jean-Paul Shartre
Jan 16, 2015

this sentence no verb


poll needs third option

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

i've always wanted to go to Scotland to hunt the Loch Ness Monster, i will be the hero Scotland deserves

banme
Apr 23, 2008
is that poll to agree with you or my personal opinion?

hohhat
Sep 25, 2014
I don't find the accent hard to understand, but I wanted to vote Goku.

www
Aug 4, 2010

Which one you watching? We dont do too many sitcoms

Frog Act
Feb 10, 2012



www posted:

Which one you watching? We dont do too many sitcoms

"Still Game" about two old men facing tender situations and semi-zany hijinks

Riptor
Apr 13, 2003

here's to feelin' good all the time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mYoEpVXFbs

Isaac
Aug 3, 2006

Fun Shoe

Frog Act posted:

"Still Game" about two old men facing tender situations and semi-zany hijinks

My dad likes that but hes scottish and can understand it

www
Aug 4, 2010

Frog Act posted:

"Still Game" about two old men facing tender situations and semi-zany hijinks

Working class Glasgow accent can be tough but it isnt that bad in Still Game imo. What cant you understand I am happy to help you translate, friend :)

Frog Act
Feb 10, 2012



i guess what i really want to know is, are scottish children really belligerent, incomprehensible gremlins

Nelson Mandingo
Mar 27, 2005



The scottish accent, like a real scottish accent and not a hollywood one is atrociously bad and sounds like someone has poo poo in their mouth when they talk.

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

Frog Act posted:

i guess what i really want to know is, are scottish children really belligerent, incomprehensible gremlins
any child that was born somewhere in the British Isles is an insufferable prick

banme
Apr 23, 2008

Nelson Mandingo posted:

The scottish accent, like a real scottish accent and not a hollywood one is atrociously bad and sounds like someone has poo poo in their mouth when they talk.

www
Aug 4, 2010

Scotland has lots of different accents, the Shetland accent (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfzaa0Ly1kk) is different the the Glasgow accent and the Glasgow accent is different to the Edinburgh accent only 45 miles away with lots of different variations inbetween!!!

hohhat
Sep 25, 2014

www posted:

Scotland has lots of different accents, the Shetland accent (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfzaa0Ly1kk) is different the the Glasgow accent and the Glasgow accent is different to the Edinburgh accent only 45 miles away with lots of different variations inbetween!!!

Which ones sound like the dwarfs from Warcraft 3?

verbal enema
May 23, 2009

onlymarfans.com
Still Game is really good

Rambling Robot
Sep 13, 2011
Duggar Fan Club Superstar #1 LOL
is it true that scots are not really human?

it would explain the bagpipes.

BeefThief
Aug 8, 2007

i know that 'mon' means man, but I don't think 'och' means anything

Isaac
Aug 3, 2006

Fun Shoe
Ken means know or remember

www
Aug 4, 2010

Happy St. Andrews day everyone

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

americans are really bad at understanding other accents, sup with that?

smooth jazz
May 13, 2010

No issues here. I understood the comings and goings in the movie Rob Roy better when i turned the volume up a bit.

"can you not tell rear end from quim?"

heh.

Matoi Ryuko
Jan 6, 2004


Can Scottish people understand Jamacan people?

The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe
Consolevania/Videogaiden, Chewing the Fat, Downtimetoon and Burnistoun are all funny Scottish shows I like to watch that none of the Americans around me can decipher.

Edgar
Sep 9, 2005

Oh my heck!
Oh heavens!
Oh my lord!
OH Sweet meats!
Wedge Regret
Is that priest show in scotland? The one with the scary half blind fully drunk priestman.

Vulture
Aug 7, 2012

i hate scottish people. i like the movie trainspotters though.

are there such thing as cool chic kilts?

dreezy
Mar 4, 2015

yeah, rip.
my favorite thing to gently caress with my scottish friends it to tell them i cant tell the diff between scottish and irish accents

My Q-Face
Jul 8, 2002

A dumb racist who need to kill themselves

Frog Act posted:

so i've been trying to watch this scottish sitcom on netflix, and i can only understand like 60-70% of what these people are saying. is scots legitimately a different dialect of English? can any goons from the British isles weigh in on this?

That's to be expected, I have to ask my Scottish friends to repeat every sixth or eighth line.

I.C.
Jun 10, 2008

Fonzarelli posted:

americans are really bad at understanding other accents, sup with that?

Good question, Fonz.

huskarl_marx
Oct 13, 2013

by zen death robot
just pronounce all the letters, that's what we do, it's what we've always done

also what the gently caress why would you ever use a glutteral stop, it sounds like that warning tic humans give off when they're about to throw up

Lufiron
Nov 24, 2005
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mplv9ddvrk

dont know whats goin here, something about neds or chavs

Savage For The Winjun
Jun 27, 2008


nobody can understand what scottish people are saying

mom and dad fight a lot
Sep 21, 2006

If you count them all, this sentence has exactly seventy-two characters.
I know toilet paper is called poo poo tickets but that's about it

mom and dad fight a lot
Sep 21, 2006

If you count them all, this sentence has exactly seventy-two characters.

Matoi Ryuko posted:

Can Scottish people understand Jamacan people?
i thought i liked jamacan accents until I heard a real one

www
Aug 4, 2010

Interesting Fact: A lot of the Scots that immigrated to North America during the Highland Clearances settled in the American deep south ie Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma.

I think this speaks volumes.

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy

The Saurus posted:

Consolevania

Aaaw they're talking about games in the necropolis

wiffle ball bat
Oct 2, 2015

by Shine

Airborne Viking posted:

i thought i liked jamacan accents until I heard a real one

did they call you a bumperclot or whatever it is

diamond dog
Jul 27, 2010

by merry exmarx
it doesnt matter if you can understand scottish people

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criscodisco
Feb 18, 2004

do it
I don't understand anything they say but I really don't need to they just need to get naked and talk their gibberish so I can beat off.

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