People that type in their accents

[MouldyChipPan]

It's so fucking attention seeking and pointless! Why do it? Nobody cares where you're from!

Example, woman from Glasgow on my Facebook:

"Cannae wait tae get home t'night an see ma wee boy! D'nt give a fuck wot his da saes he can get tae fuck!"

I come from Yorkshire but I don't feel the need to type everything in a Yorkshire accent!

I've noticed the worst culprits are Scots and people from the north east. Why do they do it?

Ahh I love the word 'catch' MrLove :)

Sorry 'cwtch'

Attention seeking and pointless? Really?

Or alternatively just them taking an opportunity in a casual setting to represent the way they actually speak as they can't do it at work.

If you don't choose to do it fair enough - why on earth should someone else's linguistic choices bother you so much?

Writing in Scots or a Scottish dialect won't gain you particularly attention in Scotland, unless you think she's doing it just to annoy you?

Aye right.

Yeah, that's a dialect, not an accent. Those are real Scottish words.

My friend writes with the nicest Scottish accent. I love it it's like hearing her voice. She says she knows it's my text when she sees "I'll be there now in a minute and give us a cwtch ".

From now on I'm writing in Saaf Laandon, innit.

I agree that Scots is actually different words; wee, bairn, etc. They're not English words.

Although we have our own .

I had to teach my phone Doric! It's a nice reminder of home to throw in a 'fit' or a 'fan' or a 'foo' when messaging old friends.

Not really seen it to be honest but if I did I wouldn't care. If I couldn't understand a bloody word of it then id tell them that I'm from London and didn't get what they were saying.

So people shouldn't type in their language?Do you feel the same way about Welsh speakers?

Did you get confused and think that the OPs quote was in Scots Gaelic?

At work I write in English. On my work’s social media, I’ll use “wee” or “wean” or “bairn” etc. Texting my friends or family I type in Scot as that’s how I talk. I don’t think that’s attention seeking.

I always write in one of my local dialects.

My mum was a scot so I get the words. I also get a lot of other sayings, isn't that the beauty of being able to speak to others on the net?

It's because North East / Scottish / Yorkshire ways of speaking are dialects, a hair off being their own (albeit extremely similar) language. Standard English was developed so that a person from Cornwall and a person from Leeds can understand each other, especially in written communication, mainly for the needs of business.

In social media, or in texts to friends people who speak a different dialect from Standard English may write that way, because:

1. It is their most natural language, which they have been brought up speaking. With its own grammatical rules and spellings. In a relaxed setting, why would people not speak and write that way, especially since most who will be receiving the communications can understand them perfectly well?
2. For effect. "Am fooking fuming" has a slightly different meaning to "I'm fucking angry", "Nah am not" has a slightly different meaning to "No I'm not". It is being able to pick phrases from two fluently spoken dialects to better express yourself.
3. Helps signify community, context and formality - if someone you're just getting to know is texting you and using the form of English that is their dialect, and not Standard English, they probably like you and want you to feel relaxed in the friendship!

I love dialects. I love that you can drive 30 miles and have new grammatical rules, words and phrases due to the natural language evolution. I understand the NEED for a Standard English to be taught in schools and be used for business, but it's a way of speaking which has been decided by old white men sat in Universities pouring out rules and spellings - it has little life, or fun, or personality. I hate that people try to crush them, say they're wrong and wipe them out, because they are from the South East where their dialect IS standard English and lawyers and managers speak that way and somehow that makes everyone else wrong. I also believe that most of the so called "pedantics" who pearl clutch at the utterance of a word not in the "(standard) English Dictionary" would find it quaint, or wonderful, or marvellous if they'd been told by a Sicilian that Italy has many different dialects for example, whilst looking down upon Mancunians and Geordies in their own country.

Nope, I love it! I'm not Scottish but occasionally I type in Caribbean dialect and my Italian friends in Italian dialects. I can't think why anyone would consider this... attention seeking. There are so many ways to type expressively.

I do this. It's not attention seeking to me - just easier if conversing with someone from our neck of the woods. We type as we speak. I don't do it much with others.

My phone does Doric 'fit like 'en Quirst?'

I genuinely love and accent. Coming from London I sort of madly believe I don't have one. Or maybe I have one that most don't like.

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Ginky OP did NOT write in "another language"

It's dialect.

Perhaps Mnhq could create a certain color for when we Scots have the audacity to post. It could be helpful as a trigger warning to you OP and other offended critters. Or perhaps we will be shuttled off to local, where we can annoy only each other.

Off to Twitter. Perhaps will be welcomed by my terribly accented people.

I love dialects, and accents too. Some phrases hit the nail on the head far better than Standard English can.
My first encounter with written dialect was Dickon's speech in The Secret Garden and I progressed to Huckleberry Finn. All downhill from there...

Sadly dialect is dying out when it should really be preserved. If using it to post on the Internet keeps it going then I'm all for it.

The OP is being twatish... hmm what dialect is that. I love a broads scots accent being typed out, same as ooop north.. Love being called a bairn and love being called "duck" .

Nae bad, Sheldon, nae bad ken.

I live in Glasgow now, so I need to watch my naws and my naes, depending who I'm talking to

I occasionally type in someone else's accent. Never in my life have I uttered the word, 'nowt' but I'm rather partial to it on forums.