fxh wrote:

One of my brothers lives in Aberdeen.

When his kids were little he'd put them on the phone.
I could not understand one word and would just say "yes yes  thats great"

When I first went over there they were older teenagers.

I still could barely understand them. Sometimes if I lip read I'd get the gist of what they were saying.

They however thought of me fondly - "As the uncle who always was positive when we talked to him on the phone"

Aberdeen is easy compared to parts of the Central Belt.

Or Google Translate.

It's not an obvious humour as you may be more accustomed too Liam.

The Spectre wrote:

It's not an obvious humour as you may be more accustomed too Liam.

I never did like Rab C Nesbitt. Too subtle for my tastes.

The Laird can defend himself with a Glasgow kiss no doubt.

The Laird is using a literary device which has been employed by Burns, Chatterton and in the Ossian poems. Not to mention, Rab C. Nesbitt. I like it myself.

^Most of them are dead, you idiot.

Perchance, you teach at secondary moderns do you?

Many modern Scottish writers still write in dialect, including Irvine Welsh, James Kelman and Ann Donovan, idiot.
You are not preaching at a semi literate mod now.

There are one or two who frequent this forum and I have had the misfortune to read Modculture from time to time.

The Spectre wrote:

There are one or two who frequent this forum and I have had the misfortune to read Modculture from time to time.

Then sir, why are you frequenting Modculture if it offends you so?

And can you, be a man and put yourself up the firing line and name those who frequent here that you consider semi-literate mods. Again, I ask you, do you teach or have you taught at a secondary modern?

The Spectre wrote:

The Laird is a long standing member (Ooer Bop) of this forum and I would like to defend him.  He is honest enough to write in his own dialect and I find him amusing, is that so bad?
Or is his honesty not suited to your pretentious tastes.

Oh, If only I could be known as Mr. Ivy.

I'm very open to changing your status from 'member' if you like. 'Mr. Ivy' is taken, but if I can fit it in then you can pretty much whatever you want. I made up all the other ones, but there's no reason why forum members shouldn't make up their own. I usually hand them out to those I think won't mind as a kind of thank you for all their input. Some people I just leave as 'member' as I judge them a bit too serious for those kind of fun & games.

What would you like me to raise your 'member' to ?

Jim.

You also need to look at it from the point of view of our friends in the North

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxjabJJd … ature=plcp

4F Hepcat wrote:

Horace wrote:

Usually those who are claimed to be unintelligible are from the north.  Or at least north of London.

This is a myth perpetuated by Southerners and those Northerners who have relocated to London. Thatcher successfully played on this ugly phenomena and used it as an added edge to the class war. Of course, the reality was something different with the middle classes in the north enjoying significantly better standards of living compared to equivalents in the south, due to the cheaper housing and mortgage repayments.

Sadly, most Southerners seem not to understand the 'barren north' through sheer bloody ignorance.

Edit: I should have typed "some Southerners" instead of "most" that was a sweeping generalization too far.

Thanks for the info.  I sort of suspected that (more than) some of this "I don't quite get that" was bullshit.  Though I can imagine that someone in a sort of "educated" linguistic bubble (which I equally imagine would be hard to do with pop culture) could feign to not understand say certain Manchester accents.  I can pretty much understand any interview on youtube from any of the bands I like from the 60's on, of which members have regional accents and I'm American.  Every so often, there's a need to "rewind" and play it again.  For instance, I was watching a Factory Records doc. and I had to listen to some fucker a few times to get the meaning.