Broad Scots / Lallans

[ccga3359]

Au contraire, my Dear Grant, I am pleased to be expanding your knowledge of the English language as spoken in the Mother Country!

Au contraire, AU CONTRAIRE! That's French! Let's not be adding yet another language to make things even more confusing, Trefor.

Or should I say Trevor?


BTW, you should be impressed that my language skills have progressed further than the single syllibled, four letter varieties.

[Archangel]

Ha, my son makes a good living in Japan teaching them what, "gimme a toonie for a 24 wanna doubledouble?", means.

Why do Canadian give you a fork for cake and ice cream?

Why do Americans put milk in coffee?

Why do we sit in the stands?

Why, if it goes by ship it's called cargo, but if it goes by car, it's called a shipment?

Park in the driveway, drive on the parkway?

Language is so much fun.

Y'all need to listen to Wonderful World one more time.

[James MacMillan]

And if you want wood for the fire, you chop it down and then chop it up!

Then there's inflammable and flammable...........

[Tattoo Bradley]

BTW, you should be impressed that my language skills have progressed further than the single syllibled, four letter varieties.

HAHAHAHA!!!
This is me all over.

[Archangel]

One of my humour senses is wondering what somebody was trying to translate, or how would somebody translate that. Billy Connolly has done some skits on that.

Sometimes I look at those Wet Floor signs and wonder if it is a command.

Lallans, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Do you want to be friends or not?

Wait 'til somebody starts writing Parliano.

[Zardoz]

"I have little time to learn another language that I might use twice per month"

It's not a different language, it's an English dialect! I only speak two languages, English and Bad English! (OK,and Bad German) But I have never had a problem understanding the posts in question. Maybe it's because I'm from the South, or watch too much BBC!

[drobin]

I just wish I could hear P1M say it.... well I guess I'll just have to save my pennies and get me and my kilt over there.

[walkerk]

It's not a different language, it's an English dialect!

Uh-oh! Now you've done it.

[Ruanaidh]

"I have little time to learn another language that I might use twice per month"

It's not a different language, it's an English dialect! I only speak two languages, English and Bad English! (OK,and Bad German) But I have never had a problem understanding the posts in question. Maybe it's because I'm from the South, or watch too much BBC!

From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language
Since there are no universally accepted criteria for distinguishing languages from dialects, scholars and other interested parties often disagree about the linguistic, historical and social status of Scots. Although a number of paradigms for distinguishing between languages and dialects do exist these often render contradictory results (See Dialect). Consequently Scots has, on the one hand, been traditionally regarded as one of the ancient dialects of English but with its own ancient and distinct dialects. Scots has often been treated as part of English as spoken in Scotland but differs significantly from the Standard Scottish English taught in schools. On the other hand, it has been regarded as a distinct Germanic language the way Swedish is distinct from Danish. Its subordination to Anglo-English has also been compared to the subordination of Frisian to Dutch in the Netherlands.[1] Thus Scots can be interpreted as a collective term for the dialects of English spoken or originating in Scotland, or it can be interpreted as the autochthonous language of Lowland Scotland. See Status below for further discussion.
Native speakers in Scotland and Ireland usually refer to their vernacular as (braid) Scots (Eng: Broad Scots) or use a dialect name such as the Doric or the Buchan Claik. The old fashioned Scotch occurs occasionally, especially in Ireland. Some literary forms are often referred to as Lallans (Lowlands).

[McClef]

Au contraire, AU CONTRAIRE! That's French! Let's not be adding yet another language to make things even more confusing, Trefor.

Or should I say Trevor?


BTW, you should be impressed that my language skills have progressed further than the single syllibled, four letter varieties.

Correct me if I am wrong but French is the other official language of your country! You are surrounded by it even though the actual speaking is more or less confined to a certain neighbouring province!

But French phrases such as this are in common usage in everyday English so it should not be as confusing as you think Grant.

You pronounce it Trevor ,yes, as a single f in Welsh is a v - what could be simpler?