In English please?

[Peter C.]

Say, didn't the English try this old trick once before? Alba Gu Brath!

All we English have done is try to work out what you have done to our language. In Australia they speak good English. In South Africa they speak good English. The English speakers in India speak good English. Here in the US of A they speak a strange language which they do call English.



Peter

[Clockwork John]

JUst be glad none of us are posting in Gaelic... That would be really confusing!

[Martin S]

It is not scots it is simply English with a Scottish accent written phonetically.

Peter

Since none of the other varieties of English are written phonetically, I fail to see why the Scots version need to be.

Martin

[The Wizard of BC]

Hey consider yourself lucky. I have found myself in a country that although one of its official languages is English they say things like "Please queue at the wicket opposite."
That's Canadian Postal Dude talk for "Yo, dummy, you're in the wrong line. Go stand over there!"

I also have trouble with Pour1Malts posts. So I just look at the pictures, nod, and jump to the next thread. It was two years before I knew who this Robertson guy everyone talks about was.

He does have a good collection of Scotch though, so I guess I'll keep trying to figure it all out.

[Phil]

No, I feel it would help if someone were to post an English translation. I don't have the time or patience to learn a 7th language.

As someone who occasionally lapses into Scots I agree wholeheartedly with you. I mean what is the point of saying something if nobody understands. I do think a few of the words under you belt woul be worthwhile though so don't give up learning altogether.

[cessna152towser]

Well as a Scot I'm usually able to translate and understand posts on this forum written in American English.

Since Pour1Malt is himself a Merican and has mastered the local tongue since he married a bonnie Scots lass and cam tae live in Scotland, I woulnae hae thocht Mericans hud ony problem wi readin Scots, but noo ah ken tae be mair careful tae mak masel understood.

[Mike1]

OK, OK, enough of the subtle jokes. This is a very real and very serious issue in Scotland's school system and we've no place mocking the situation.

Ardchoille, here is your solution -

User CP > Control Panel > Miscellaneous > Buddy / Ignore Lists > Ignore List > Add New User to List > Save List

If you find a member's posts upsetting you, you can easily ignore that member with the above steps.

We're ranging between 350 - 500 posts each day, so ignoring a handful really won't make much difference in the overall scheme of things.

[HeathBar]

Please don't give up on P1M's theads. He's taken us on so many different photographic journeys of the Scottish countryside. Yes, when he first came on board, his posts were a bit confusing to read. But not impossible to read. Its the same words we use, just spelled differently. One thing I learned is that "ken" = "know". Remember that and you'll be OK.

[davedove]

I had a hard time the first few times myself, then I found that P1M's posts make a lot more sense if you read them aloud with a Scottish accent. After you've done that a few times, you no longer have to read them aloud, but you still need to think in the accent.

[gilmore]

It is not scots it is simply English with a Scottish accent written phonetically.

Peter

One could just as easily say that what you are writing is Scots with an English accent. But Scots is more than an accent. It is at least a dialect, if not a language. And as some one once said, a language is a dialect with an army.


Both Scots and English developed at the same time and from the same source, the Angles, Saxons and Jutes who invaded eastern, nothern and southern England and the Scottish Lowlands at the same time. But Received Pronunciation English has, until recently, been thought of as normative while all others aren't. This has been changing in recent years, as anti-imperialist sentiment works its way down, or up, the social scale.