People that type in their accents

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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?

I work with a few Glaswegians. I flit between naws and naes. I have adopted baw instead of ba though. It just sounds better when paired with bag. Or hair.

I now consider myself trilingual.

Another Glaswegian here.

This is our local dialect as people have stated. Why should we change how we speak for you? If you don't like it block the person not go slate them and all other Glaswegians who speak that way.

I speak like that in my friend family but as soon as I speak to my English family or I'm speaking with a professional it's proper English I speak.

I don't hurt anyone one by speaking local dialect, but you may just be offended ha you see Scottish as they people that's quiet offensive actually. We are just the same as you whether you like it or not.

I think it's bit like someone from America complaining that British people are attention seeking by typing things like trousers or colour. I have a few Doric speaking friends. It doesn't bother me at all.

I hate it when people are so fucking parochial that they apparently can't understand other accents and dialects.

I work in London and we had an IT trainer with a mild Glaswegian accent. Loads of colleagues from London and the south east saying they couldn't understand her. She was perfectly clear. Idiots.

I see this a lot with northerners. "A went to the shops"
Who's A? yanbu

I like it when people write in their accents. "Attention-seeking" - surely all language is this, by definition? You sound like a right miserable sod.

Bah to 'cwtsh'. It is only used in some parts of Wales. It means naff all to the rest of us.

Mike that's right. I'm from NW and we don't say it.

It's sounds a bit naff to me. Cloying and cutesy.

I also hate 'saes' to mean English - it's a made up word.
And 'hwyl' used in an English sentence.
And 'hiraeth' used in an English sentence.

And 'hygge'.

And I hate it when people give their child a welsh name but misspell it and/or mispronounce it.

Gogledd Cymru here too and yes cariad,the word 'cwtch' hardly ever said up here yet sold in frames,crafted items,greetings cards etc at several tourist hotspots..

So funny you say that im scottish and have lots of yorkshire family and they are the only ones i notice typing it there accent !! Rte is the main one i see

It is not an accent or dialect, it's a language. Its one of the three languages spoken in Scotland along with English and Scottish Gaelic. They are writing in Scots - its officially recognised language in the uk & Europe and has been since 2001. It is taught in schools as part of Scottish culture and to prevent it dying out as has almost happened without Scottish Gaelic.

I wish I could type in an accent. Looks like fun.

Look, I never do this but as you are critising the way other write OP, it's 'people WHO' not 'people THAT'. Person not object.

I love hearing different accents and dialects but I'm from the north east and all I see are things like 'a cannit be deeing with it man' and even 'ad like to let ya's all knaw that we've had babby number three'

I think it could be a case of seeing dialects different from our own as quite charming purely because they're different but seeing our own accent written down doesn't have the same effect.

I'm now off to hide from any other geordies/mackems/sand dancers

Well you'd hate it in the valleys. Come over by here and I'll give you a cwtch butty

Scots is a dialect not an accent

I really like variations in styles and ways of self expression.

I'm envious. If I typed in mine, you'd think Vicky Pollard had joined MN.

I'm another one who occasionally appropriates "nowt". I'm not brave enough to try Glaswegian

I read the autobiography of Amanda (the Yorkshire Shepherdess) and she wrote all of her own dialogue in Yorkshire speak, which would be fine except I have seen her on telly several times and she doesn't even speak that way. That was annoying.

Lol @ competitive Welshness by some of you ("oh cwtch is soooooo kitsch only you South Walians would say it, us proper Welsh would never sully our lips with it"). Ah, nice to know the North/South divide is still live and kicking

I also still say mochyn and ych a fi, not to mention daps when referring to plimsolls. Fill your boots ladies, the field of fucks that I give currently lies barren

I remember proudly hearing about 40 years ago that the english spoken in Inverness was the best pronounced in the country.
No one says that now but it is lovely, a lilting slow way of pronouncing english.
I think that nationalism has encouraged people to speak with broader Scots which isn't a problem unless you don't know what they are talking about. So everyone imv should be able to do both.
Encouraging children not to speak good english as well as their 'dialect' is not good. Unless they are happy not to leave their home area, but who knows what they will do when they are later in life?

It is not an accent or dialect, it's a language. Its one of the three languages spoken in Scotland along with English and Scottish Gaelic. They are writing in Scots - its officially recognised language in the uk & Europe and has been since 2001. It is taught in schools as part of Scottish culture and to prevent it dying out as has almost happened without Scottish Gaelic.

This. There's also many children's books written or translated to Scots, including books by Julia Donaldson.

Love a pair of daps. Who needs trainers.