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> I haven't found such differences in English. Find yourself a native Glaswegian to chat with, and see if you still feel the same way.
by meepmorp 5y ago
> I haven't found such differences in English.
Find yourself a native Glaswegian to chat with, and see if you still feel the same way.
- sime2009 5y agoI was in Glasgow years ago for a conference. Wonderfully friendly locals, I didn't understand a word they said.
- mnw21cam 5y agoMy brother's wife is from the Shetland islands. He'd always know when she was on the phone to her family, because she would drop straight into the dialect without realising it. The thing is, the Shetlanders know that their dialect is sufficiently different, so they learn TV English as well so they can make themselves understood to outsiders.
- gadders 5y agoI had it happen to me with a taxi driver in Newcastle.
- StavrosK 5y agoObligatory Limmy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YfRbNipdOg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YfRbNipdOg NSFW language, if you can understand it.
- dmnd 5y agoalso hilarious if you can understand it
- StavrosK 5y agoI've watched the entire show 4 times and can understand everything by now, but I still can't say I get the humour.
- grozzle 5y agoLimmy's humour is wilfully niche even among Scots and the Scots-adjacent. He has no intention of appealing to a wide audience. He's a great example of Twitch being good at finding an audience for the long tail of creators.
- heurisko 5y agoI wouldn't find them "pretty much incomprehensible", although there might be one or two variations in accent or words that we might trip over once or twice. It would be much different experience from speaking with someone with a different German dialect, so I'd feel the same.