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antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Idk, I recently heard some thick Scottish English and I couldn’t understand literally anything. That might be in part due to the fact that I’m not a native speaker, but still I believe people outside the British isles would struggle with it.

Some of the uniformity is a result of cultural domination of specific centres and now unavoidable loss of original dialectal variation.

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Tujio@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
When I was in Glasgow I couldn’t understand anybody older than 40.

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blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
People inside the British Aisles would still struggle.

Especially if it was a Weegie

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KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Was it Scottish English or Scots? The line between the two is blurry because intelligibility varies a lot

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- antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Pretty sure it was Scottish English. Does anyone outside of super rural places actively use Scots anyway?
  
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  - KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Are you confusing Scots and Scottish Gaelic? Scottish Gaelic is the one that’s spoken in the western isles, Scots is across most of the rest of Scotland, including big cities
    
    Scots is hard to tell from English sometimes because Scots has undergone near language death, where it adopted more and more features from English as it was taken over, and Scots was regarded for a decent while as nothing but bad English
    
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  - Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Scots is common throughout the country. There’s also a local variant in the north east called Doric which to others is near impossible to understand. It’s perhaps more rural only, although there’s certainly still people in Aberdeen that speak it.
    
    Do you know where in Scotland this person was from? That might help narrow it down.
    
    Was there a lot of Fs? In Doric the “wh” from English questions is changed to an F.
    
    What? - Fit?
    Where? - Far? When? - Fan?
    How? - Foo?
    Why? - often how is asked to mean why, or just fit why will be asked
    
    If you are in a Doric shoe shop you can legitimately ask “Fit fit fits fit fit?” which means “Which foot fits which foot?”
    
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tatterdemalion@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
youtu.be/nJ7QB3om-QY

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