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People that type in their accents

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MouldyChipPan · 11/09/2017 23:49

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?

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SomewhatIdiosyncratic · 12/09/2017 07:42

Reading aloud the twins' speech in the Thomas the Tank Engine books is wrecking havoc with my English accent that cannot do Scottish accents with any dignity. It's probably a great empathy experience for DS1 listening to me stumble, stutter and re-read the words as he finds reading hard going Wink

I have no issue with local dialects as long as people can apply standard English to appropriate contexts, as in writing an essay, not a status update.

AgentProvocateur · 12/09/2017 07:44

You saved me a post, @tamepanda.

OP, it might blow your tiny mind to know that we have Roald Dahl books translated into Scots for children.

ByseddSosij · 12/09/2017 07:50

Must have missed those comments MrLove..''twas an observation on my part.Enjoy your gwîn Wink

MissBabbs · 12/09/2017 07:51

I'm a bit confused at the Scottish language. Ime scots words and phrases were different in different parts of Scotland. I'm surprised it's a single language, unless they have just adopted Rabbie Burns words. I live where he lived and little of it is spoken (except maybe after a few drams). I've lived in the south-west, Edinburgh and Aberdeenshire.

Willow2017 · 12/09/2017 07:53

Tamepanda
Yes our primary kids did a bit of that. Its sad that they have to be reminded that the words they hear around them are real. They did ashort play in local dialect it was great fun and lovely to hear.

PoppyPopcorn · 12/09/2017 07:55

So people shouldn't type in their language?

It's not a "language". It's slang, or dialect. The whole "Scots language" thing does my head in, it's a political tool used by the SNP to try to convince Scots that we're different, separate, not the same as those people south of the border who use a foreign language called English because we all speak fluent Scots. And the natural conclusion of that argument is independence. Bollocks. Scots is not one language as has been proved by many threads over on Scotsnet - someone in Aberdeen doesn't use the same words as someone in Inverness, Edinburgh or Glasgow.

Reading that type of FB update would have me hitting the defriend button straight away - the person who felt she had to share that update is not only borderline illierate but sweary and just awful.

Please don't think all of us living in Glasgow speak or talk like that - lots of us don't.

IveGotBillsTheyreMultiplying · 12/09/2017 07:57

There's nothing worse than someone who's clearly not Scottish saying 'wee' for small. The weather forecasters do it

Some wee showers...

I like people talking and writing in their own dialects and languages. I follow twitter users in French and German just to see how they say things.

Fortheloveofdog · 12/09/2017 07:57

Cwtch is used in South Wales. Particularly commonly used in Swansea area.
It's probably the most common Welsh word used by English speakers here. It's one of those words that does not have a satisfactory translation for those who use it!
I love my Scottish friends typing in dialect, yabu op.

MrLovebucket · 12/09/2017 07:58

@Bysedd You need to concentrate harder then cariad x there's a few dismissive comments, including yours. Perhaps you don't realise how it comes across

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.

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

FineAsWeAre · 12/09/2017 08:07

I actually love it, my Grandma was Scottish so I always imagine it to sound as though she's saying it.

highinthesky · 12/09/2017 08:10

I come from Yorkshire but I don't feel the need to type everything in a Yorkshire accent! Yet Emily Bronte did (Wuthering Heights).

MrLovebucket · 12/09/2017 08:13

I had to study The Wife of Bath's Tale at school. That was harder going than any regional accent/dialect/whatever.

Yet somehow it's still there on the curriculum ...

MrsJayy · 12/09/2017 08:14

They are typing how they speak i think we should do it on mumsnet and watch folk explode with rage Grin

DinnaeKnowShitFromClay · 12/09/2017 08:16

Grin Grin Grin

I guess you all love my MN name I've had for years then Grin

Willow2017 · 12/09/2017 08:18

Jesus wept scottish dialects have been around a bit longer than alex salmond or nichola sturgeon.

We don't speak in dialects for anyone else's benefit it's just the way we have always spoken. I couldn't give a toss if anyone from another part of the UK likes it or not. I am not asking them to speak it so I dont expect them to tell me how to speak.

TizzyDongue · 12/09/2017 08:22

Now I'm confused - are people saying that the Glaswegisn dialect is the Scottish language? I had thought in Scotland Gaelic was a completely different language - with a bit of use of the words and grammar structure appearing in dialects. Just like in Ireland Gaelic is a language and while, say, Munster Irish has affected the dialect used in Kerry it doesn't make the dialect an accent.

I've a question though - Irvine Welsh: is Trainspotting written in one dialect? There's a book called Grits that's written in several dialects - once you get into on it gets easier to read but it's difficult again when it's switches. Wondering as I've not read Trainspottinh.

MrsJayy · 12/09/2017 08:22

I did laugh at the post about dialects being an Snp conspiracy it is not shameful to speak in your own dialect using perfectly normal scottish words and for it being a bit irvine welsh Hmm

aquabluebutterfly · 12/09/2017 08:26

Some people from where I live write "are" instead of "our", I hate it.

5rivers7hills · 12/09/2017 08:33

Writing with a Scottish accent is not a sodding 'dialect'.

No different from writing with a Yorkshire accent "do it ye sen petal"/ "that's reet good snap".

All English. Some regional words. Some misspelling to make the pronunciations in the accent.

MrsJayy · 12/09/2017 08:33

There is no such thing as one scottish dialect it is mixed somebody from Glasgow wouldn't say ken but would in Edinburgh

PoppyPopcorn · 12/09/2017 08:37

it is not shameful to speak in your own dialect using perfectly normal scottish words

No it's not. It is wrong to try to pass it off as a "language" though.

Tizzy - Scots Gaelic is a totally different language and has a lot of similarities to Irish Gaelic. If you heard someone speaking Gaelic you probably wouldn't understand them unless you had experience with Irish/Gaelic. Most Scottish people don't speak Gaelic.

Scots is what is being pushed as the "language" of the bits of Scotland which never spoke Gaelic, so everywhere apart from the highlands and islands. Like the language Robert Burns wrote in. Problem with that is that although there are some words you'll hear across Scotland like wee or dreich, each area has its own words, just as England does. (let's not get into the what do you call a bread roll debate). And it's a bastardised form of English anyway. If you're going to accept "Scots" is a totally separate language, then Australian English is too. Plus there are a huge number of Scottish who speak standard English and don't have either an accent or a dialect like the OP's Facebook friend.

MrsJayy · 12/09/2017 08:43

This is facebook we are talking about well the op is and it is supposed to be friendly and chatty and whatever and the op friend can type how she likes really,

MrsJayy · 12/09/2017 08:44

Dinae get me started on the gaelic signage where its no needed Hmm

PoppyPopcorn · 12/09/2017 08:47

Dinae get me started on the gaelic signage where its no needed

Indeed - it's all over the low level railway stations in Glasgow. Money well spent changing Partick to Partaig. Anyone would think we had nothing else to worry about like the state of education and the NHS... Hmm

TizzyDongue · 12/09/2017 08:51

Thanjs for that PoppyPopcorn. That's what I thought about Scots - got confused at the claim it was a language!!

Anyway everyone read Grits - it's set in Aberystwyth. Lots of know (90s-ish) locals in 'disguse' too.