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?

My DH is french and many of the peculiarities of English that the British use drive him mental. The worst one perhaps being 'quite good'. He understands 'quite good' whereas I mean 'actually not good'.

Dinnae fash yersel, OP

I find it hard to read, but it doesn't bother me.

Charles Dickens did it: his Yorkshireman in Hard Times also had a lisp - took me ages to work out what he was saying!

If it's good enough for the Literary giants mentioned on this thread, it should be good enough for you, Op

It's dialect and I don't mind it, apart from when 20th century writers give their working class characters some god awful phonetically depicted dialect. And it's always wrong! The Yorkshire t' is my particular bugbear. It should be going downt shops, not going down TUH shops. People always see the t' and read it as some weird explosive consonant. Needs a new phonetic convention ;)

My North Easten SIL constantly writes Eeee, which sounds better IRL but not written down

The Yorkshire t' is my particular bugbear

Isn't there a lot of Norse in Yorkshire not seen elsewhere in England ?

And there's a distinction between thee and thou ?

God yes I hate when I am reading a book and it's written in an accent, I often find it really hard to decipher, dickens was a demon for it.

Ah'm fae Glesga n ah couldnae gie a fuck whit you hink o folk typin lit this.

Actually, I seldom write in Scots but I've no problem with people who do. All FB posts are attention seeking, surely? Is that not what communication is about? You should take a look at the Scots Language Forum group, that would do your head in.

East and north Yorkshire particularly have Viking influence (you can tell by place names).

The t' is different to thee and thou (which you don't really hear any more where I am in West Yorkshire). It's where in Yorkshire dialect you just don't bother saying the whole phrase 'to the' or 'to' or 'the'. Eg going t'work, pronounced going twerk. Trouble at mill has no t' because at ends in t (trouble at tut mill sounds weird)

YANBU OP at all.

The t' is different to thee and thou (which you don't really hear any more where I am in West Yorkshire)

I was fascinated to hear thee and thou in passing when we toured East Yorkshire (many moons ago). I love the fact it exists at all in English, as it does demonstrates how languages evolve (which is anathema to English teachers trying to tell you they don't).

I speak the Scottish dialect and I hardly ever type or write it although I might slip the odd word in without thinking.

To me English is the standard and I will use it by default online and in certain social situations as best I can.

I love listening to different accents and dialects, it's colourful,cultural and represents the places people come from.

A month or so ago I met a man at a language exchange meet up in a Scottish city no less and he proceeded to publicly put down the Scottish accent, saying everyone should speak proper English.
I was .

op that post would do my head in as it's not a pleasant post and looks crass but I would just flick past and pay no more thought to it.

I see the op has posted one goady post, essentially aimed at Scotland, then fucked off.
Bolt hen.

My oh is very dyslexic and writes a lot like he speaks (very yorkshire)..l really like it but wonder if others think he is being professional northerner lol

MrLove..sorry ofnadwy if I hurt your teimladau

Diolch, but us Valley girls are made of sterner stuff than that If you can survive Wind Street unscathed on a Friday night you can live through a nuclear attack

I just find it a bit depressing that some Welsh people will be dismissive of other Welsh people using - you know - the Welsh language. It's something we should be encouraging rather than saying that words in our (beautiful to my mind) mother tongue are "naff" "cloying" or only fit for tourist tat

Cenedyl heb iaith, cenedyl heb galon x

A propos of nothing we went to Wales to buy some sheep the other week. The auctioneer drifted in between Welsh and English throughout. It was charming.

Cenedl even, my lovely MrLoveBucket.

Whoops, my error Mike I should have looked it up rather than relying on my fucking awful memory! Been down in Old England Land waaaay too long

scots! i love it. it's very visceral. I'm from Hampshire.

Dim problem, Mr. I knew what you meant and it's a great saying. You speak Welsh?

Cenedl..it's cenedl 😉

Excuse my crosspost Mike

I grew up in an area with a very distinct dialect - so much so it's the source of many academic studies. If it was spoken in the classroom you were punished by being made to stand in the corner "Du spaeks English in da scöl!"

I love reading posts in local dialects. I'm delighted we no longer homogenise language. I particularly love Glaswegian and Yorkshire dialects.

You speak Welsh?

Occasionally, and very badly (can't even spell it these days!). I used to keep the rusty edge off by chatting with relatives when I went back home. Sadly they've all passed away now and I've let it go to pot Maybe I need to search out a local Welsh group and climb back on the ceffyl