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?

You probably remember it quite well. Don't worry about my nitpicky ways. There's a welsh society in Woking if that's any help.

www.wokingwelshsociety.co.uk/

I suspect it may be for people who bandy words like cwtsh, cawl, hiraeth and hwyl about and talk about rugby but if you're local you could find out.

I suspect it may be for people who bandy words like cwtsh, cawl, hiraeth and hwyl about and talk about rugby but if you're local you could find out.

I'll probably fit right in then!

Unfortunately Woking is a bit of a trek for me but they might be able to point me in the direction of a local group. Diolch yn fawr Mike

It doesn't bother me, as long as you're from that place. I have a few friends from Scotland who type like that and it's fine.

I know someone who lived their whole life in England, moved to Scotland and started doing statuses in Scottish dialect. Eh? It just struck me as really staged and fake.

scots! i love it. it's very visceral

I think it depends where you are - a soft Highland burr (?is that the right word) is not visceral.

YANBU. It's really cringesome.

See also - slangy "rude boy" speak, such as "tryna" instead of "trying to". It might be because my parents were both teachers and therefore raised me to be against sloppy speech/writing, but that kind of thing makes me wince.

I wonder how rabbie burns would react to being told he wrote sloppily

The sloppy speech thing was specifically a reference to things like "tryna".

PS there is obviously a world of difference between, say, Irvine Welsh writing first person narrative in the accent of the character narrating the story, and someone on Facebook typing their status updates in a way that dictates to the reader that they want it to be read in a regional accent. It would be a little bit silly to think otherwise, surely.

TheVoiceOfTreason I get your point you have to kind of separate the slang and dialect. Tryna for example for me isn't a Scots word. Trying te/tay (to) with less of and 'ing' would be more accurate for dialect, Tryin te explain but probably no gettin anywhere.

Yep! I wasn't referring to tryna as a Scottish thing, I didn't think the thread was exclusively about people typing Scottish accents out phonetically (someone used Yorkshire people doing it as an example too). "tryna" is more of an Estuary English thing I'd have said, so it's actually pretty southern.

I'm from North east Scotland and have mixed feelings about this , I love my heritage and agree that dialects /language have to be protected (Doric in my case) but when I see it written down it just makes my teeth itch, I know it's wrong of me but it does make me cringe
I do however read books in the accent of the author (if I know it) and wonder if anyone else does this?
For instance I would read Marian Keyes in an Irish accent in my head

Tryin' tae
surely.

miss I was going for the sound rather than the more accurate spelling but thanks.