Submitted 1 year ago by miyazakiskies@lemmy.world to [deleted]
It could be worse. It could be an American penpal. My daughter once offered to edit an online fanfic story from what she assumed was an author in early teenage years, if at all, according to the (lack of) grammar. Later she learned that this person actually was in college.
“I’m a little bit upset with the person of low IQ that lives down the road. He’s always fussing around his car as if it is more impressive than it is. He is certainly full of underserved confidence”.
Also, Scots is a distinct language. Not an accent.
Scots is generally regarded as a distinct language, but this looks to me like it’s probably Scottish English. Compare that with the front page of Scots Wikipedia* which is much harder to understand than this is. Half of the weirdness in this message is spelling English words how they’re pronounced with a strong Scottish accent:
Urgh, I’m fair scunnered with that daft idiot down the road, always haverin about his new motor like it’s something pure gallus
Which only leaves a small number of dialect-specific words.
Just…don’t look into the history of said site. Or do, it’s very entertaining but also kinda sad.
Scots also shares words with English.
Did you decipher that with ChatGPT or a quantum computer of sorts?
Yes.
“eejit” sound like “idiot” when you say it out loud. is that it?
Well, you may not be the only one struggling:
Rajtinka@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lol, one of the premier league commentators is Scottish and I can’t understand half of what he says. For some fun, watch the movie “Grabbers.” If you have a hard time with Scots, it’s drunken Scots. I recommend subtitles!!