Not understanding broad Scots accent "racism"?

[Ponders]

I hesitate to say this is PC gone mad - but this is PC gone mad

Alex Ferguson & Kenny Dalglish would generally benefit from subtitles on the rare occasion they agree to an interview - why is it racist, FFS? There are dozens of strong British accents which can be hard to understand if you're not local to them!

Collins should not have "made a grovelling apology" (if he actually did )

Interpret would also be patronising - it implies that the two parties are speaking different languages, not that they have different accents.

What's so hard about saying, as expat said "I'm sorry, I'm not from round here, and I'm having trouble understanding your accent"?

And that I guess in itself is down to interpretation because I dind't read it like that.

bronze, we're not talking about you and this neighbour. this is about an official Q&A session with a government official.

Mr Collins jumped in and asked for a translator straightway. He didn't ask the questioner - if the report's to be believed the question wasn't even addressed to him but to Ms Harman - to repeat himself. Just asked for translation.

Wanky in the extreme. Not racist, though.

Mr Collins jumped in and asked for a translator straightway. He didn't ask the questioner - if the report's to be believed the question wasn't even addressed to him but to Ms Harman - to repeat himself. Just asked for translation.

Wanky in the extreme. Not racist, though.

I know. Only one of my replies was about my neighbour in reply to being told to talk more slowly to him.

When I say I didn't read it like that I was talking about the article in question. But if he can be accused of being racist (which implies being negative) when he wasn't necessarily being so (maybe rude thats different) then it worries me for how I act too.

"s Harman appeared confused by his strong Lanarkshire accent and complained she could not hear what he had said. "

My fault for assuming after this that it would have been repeated.

No at least we agree its not racist. I suspect he would have problems with strong Newcastle accents etc as well.

I'm still intrigued to know what the question actually was

Here's what the Scottish Executive have to say on the matter of the Scots language

here Clicking on the link is very informative

Very interesting,saltire

big debate about whether Scots is language or not. The Scottish goivt would like us to think it is.

I don't think it is at all. It's a dialect.

But the debate trundles on and on.

I used to work for The Ministry of Agriculture and I just could not understand the Scottish farmers.
I was really embarassed at asking them to repeat things and blaming it on a poor telephone line.

Its not racist fgs.