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Post by warofwords on Jan 28, 2009 11:15:02 GMT
I remember visiting an Aunt and Uncle up the North of England in Seaham county Durham , couldn't understand a bloody word any of them said and they spoke english ;D
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Post by jonren on Jan 28, 2009 11:18:44 GMT
I'm a Glaswegian and yet in the army I had to translate Geordie speak for the Londoners.
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Post by radge on Jan 28, 2009 11:21:10 GMT
youre all reading a story from the mail, about integration and immigration...  anyone seriously taking this as gospel? |
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Post by Brittles on Jan 28, 2009 11:32:27 GMT
Never spoke inglish in ma' life.  Ah' speak Scots an' ma' people are starting tae ensure its revival. SCOTLISH  |
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Jan 28, 2009 11:33:57 GMT
"the Scots language as a cultural and economic asset, and will consider how it can be further developed and promoted at home and abroad for social and economic gain"
Bwahahahahaha funniest thing I'll read all day!
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Post by warofwords on Jan 28, 2009 11:39:35 GMT
I'm a Glaswegian and yet in the army I had to translate Geordie speak for the Londoners. Yep that's what their called geordies , ..........they call children 'bairns' , which frightened my lot to death when they thought they were being called 'bears' ;D |
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Post by radge on Jan 28, 2009 11:41:33 GMT
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Jan 28, 2009 11:43:38 GMT
FACT alert: the bairns thing, which they use a lot in the North East, is a Scandy relic from Viking times. In Swedish child is barn. Also, Scots sometimes say "stop greeting" when they mean stop crying, I will eat my own legs if that's not also from the Scandy (Swedish for to cry is "gråta").
Linguistic spoddery ends.
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Post by radge on Jan 28, 2009 11:45:41 GMT
VHW!!! Nice one deary!!! |
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Post by warofwords on Jan 28, 2009 11:45:56 GMT
I'm not familiar with wain ............I used to call shoes Daps and a raincoat an anorak till we immigrated to Oz where I had all the aussie kids taking the piss out of me for not speaking proper english ;D.....Now I just call them sneakers and raincoats  , still say yoghurt as it sounds though  |
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Post by radge on Jan 28, 2009 11:47:00 GMT
Its more than likely considering those scandinavian types enojyed a good 4 centuries worth of rape and pilage They also left us Scots with the red hair gene!!! Bastards!! |
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Post by warofwords on Jan 28, 2009 11:47:38 GMT
FACT alert: the bairns thing, which they use a lot in the North East, is a Scandy relic from Viking times. In Swedish child is barn. Also, Scots sometimes say "stop greeting" when they mean stop crying, I will eat my own legs if that's not also from the Scandy (Swedish for to cry is "gråta"). Linguistic spoddery ends. See this is why we cannot be too hard on other cultures when our own english speaking cultures cannot get it right ! |
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Post by warofwords on Jan 28, 2009 11:49:27 GMT
Its more than likely considering those scandinavian types enojyed a good 4 centuries worth of rape and pilage They also left us Scots with the red hair gene!!! Bastards!! You will be pleased to know the red hair gene is just about Kapput ........... |
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Post by Victor Meldrew on Jan 28, 2009 11:53:21 GMT
Victor, why do you assume that their English isn't as good as, if not better than the language you heard them speak?Sorry Vania, I don't assume. I know. I lived with this community as I grew up. The families spoke Urdu or Bangladeshi back then as their first language in their homes, and many still do today. In 2000, the headteacher of my old Primary School won an award in the Pride of Britain Awards for her work in trying to sort the school out. www.prideofbritain.com/contentpages/winners/2000/gehane-gordelier.aspxThis is from the school's 2007 Ofsted report:- Harry Gosling is an above average sized school. Most pupils are from Bangladeshi backgrounds although a few other ethnic groups are represented. All pupils speak English as their second language and the percentage of pupils who are at the early stages of learning English is high.Believe me, the majority of kids, even at the top end of the school's age scale (11), have a poor (or at least below average) grasp of the English language, as they are not encouraged to speak it anywhere but at school.
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Post by warofwords on Jan 28, 2009 12:00:02 GMT
I dunno about that , I just about died laffin while in a chinese restaurant in Uxbridge , the chinese lady who served us had a very strong english accent , she had obviously been paying attention in english class ;D
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Post by Brittles on Jan 28, 2009 12:00:43 GMT
I really love the different accents and way we speak in the British Isles.
I'm no widely enough travelled to know whether any other country has such a rich diversity in how English and its variant forms are spoken (No forgetting Gaelic and Welsh of course) but here it - in my opinion - is a huge cultural asset.
I love the Geordie - well its almost Scots anyway,
the Scouse,
Cockney - I mean the real broad original no Estuary,
West Country,
Brummie ....
and the Doric spoken by people in the north east of Scotland which I canny understand a bit!
Brilliant the lot of them.
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Post by warofwords on Jan 28, 2009 12:05:10 GMT
The worst would have to be the Wiltshire accent , which is what I would have finished with if we had remained in trowbridge ....they talk like pirates! ;D
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Post by radge on Jan 28, 2009 12:09:25 GMT
heh heh sorry...why are pirates cool? cause they ARRRRGGHHH!!! Couldnt help it |
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Post by warofwords on Jan 28, 2009 12:14:56 GMT
heh heh sorry...why are pirates cool? cause they ARRRRGGHHH!!! Couldnt help it Hahaha yep , that's the one ...........I was born in Trowbridge and district hospital along with my cousin , the poor bugger ended up being raised there and he sounds exactly like that , AAAAAARRRGGGGGHHHH!!! No offence to anyone whose stuck sounding like a pirate forever  |
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Jan 28, 2009 12:17:10 GMT
I like the West Country accent. Although it does work in the same way as a Southern states US accent, if you hear it your brain automatically assumes a 50 point IQ reduction in the speaker. It is actually possible to be possessed of such an accent and not stupid though.
Geordie is an abomination.
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