Comment on Most legible scottish person

x4740N@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• edinbruh@feddit.it ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Being lesbo sucks. I tell a girl that she’s banging and I get “coming from you 🙂”. Literally no, I’m not saying that to be your pal, I’m saying that to shag you…

  Or something, I’m not Scottish

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  • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    maybes naw but ye ken fit like. pure spot on man

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can barely understand the gist of what you wrote. I’m genuinely curious how English did this… I assume from mixing with Celtic/gaelic languages?

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      • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No idea. The Doric branch of Scots is something else, it’s wild. Even if two people local to a particular area from thirty or forty miles away are gabbin awa to each other, I can just about follow the thread of the conversation but I couldn’t pick out every single word.

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      • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t think anything in @edinbruh@feddit.it’s comment is particularly Celtic/Gaelic-inspired.

        Banging is slang for hot. Pal means friend. Shag means have sex with. They’re all fairly common slang in the English language even outside of Scotland. Mostly in England, but elsewhere in the Commonwealth most people would be familiar with the terms, even if it wouldn’t be the first slang term they themselves would use.

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do Scottish people use “fit” like that? I know it’s used in England, particularly the north, but I don’t think I’ve seen it from Scotland. Probably says more about how much exposure I’ve had to Scottish culture though.

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      • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes and no - it can be used to express someone finding another attractive, but in certain parts (particularly the NE) it’s more of a nuanced “what”, with it’s specific meaning depending on context.

        Language is wild.

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    she’s banging

    “coming from you 👸🏼”

    Can someone explain why anyone would reply like that? I am not a native English speaker. I could understand “coming [to answer the door] for you, queen” but not anything “from you”.

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    • eels@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s short for something along the lines of „that statement means a lot coming from you, as you are also very attractive“

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      • GelatinGeorge@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not quite: it means “yeah, but you’re a girl so you would say that to be my friend”. Source: I’m terminally Glaswegian

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    • HowManyNimons@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Looks like you’re getting a lot of interpretations. I’d have thought it was more like: “Because you’re a lesbian and have particular appreciation for female attractiveness, your comment has made me feel like a princess!”

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    • ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      excellent or impressive. “a beautiful celebrity with a banging bod”

      So I might say m8. For an example that’s some banging scran you got there m8

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