Comment on Most legible scottish person

• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨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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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m familiar with all of that…?

      I thought it was obvious that because I responded to this comment, I was talking it in particular: feddit.uk/comment/5215388

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      • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ah sorry. I misread and thought you were replying to the parent comment of that comment.

        Anyway, I’ll admit I’m struggling with that one too. My best take:

        Maybes naw: I think this is literally “maybe no”, possibly used equivalently to the Aussie “nah yeah” (meaning “yes”)?

        ye ken: you know

        fit like: quite hot

        spot on: exactly

        min: ???

        But I don’t really see how they fit together.

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• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨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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