I Just Love Our Language (Scottish English)

Are you sure you ladies don't work for the Department of Tourism? UK food, landscapes, houses, entertainment, language -- expect to see a tour bus bringing us round your way very soon, LOL :D
 

Not boring at all, pants still on, Oakapple, I love to learn all about it, the Cullen skink soup is still on my to-do list to make ...... there's but a few of us Canadians here as well, but we tend to keep a low profile.:)
 

Cookie said:
Are you sure you ladies don't work for the Department of Tourism? UK food, landscapes, houses, entertainment, language -- expect to see a tour bus bringing us round your way very soon, LOL :D
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We get tourist buses past our house. If you come round stop in for a cuppa. I know how to make proper tea.
 
No worries, scones are messy aren't they, and very high calorie on top of it. Our bus should be coming around the corner soon.:D
 
Bee said:
Here you go English Morris Dancers.


Children Dancing Round The Maypole
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Enjoyed them.. especially the Morris dancers. My friend's husband is a member of the local group and their dancing season will be starting anytime now. The other thing to look forward to in parts of the north of England are the Pasche Egg plays (St George vanguishing the dragon and all that) and in the nearby Abbey the kids will be rolling their 'pace' (Pasche) eggs down the amphitheatre hill just as I did when I was a youngster.
 
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British accents are not quite as simple as she portrays. For instance, what she refers to as Westcountry accents are more like Somerset, Bristol or Gloucester. I'm originally from South Devon which is very different. It's also quite different from North Devon and even Exeter and Plymouth accents are noticably different. An ez fer they Corinesh, evin oi kent unnerstan wut they'm be on about.
 
Obviously the German speaker is exaggerating, as well the other speakers are moderating their tones. Many languages have their gutteral sounds, including English. Scottish has very pronounced gutteral sounds as have most European languages.

If this video is supposed to be funny, I don't get it, it is putting down all the languages, especially the German, which seems culturally intolerant .
 
Cookie, I'm sorry it rubbed you in a way that I had not intended. Yes it was intended to be funny and the German speaker was grossly exaggerating his enunciation. I just encountered it on FB and remembered several of the comments earlier in the thread. I wasn't making a point and again I apologize.
 
Pam, thanks for posting the Morris Dancers, it saved me explaining what they were about. Mr Oakapple will go out of his way to watch a Morris Troupe, he says the laughter does him good!;)
 
Josiah said:
Cookie, I'm sorry it rubbed you in a way that I had not intended. Yes it was intended to be funny and the German speaker was grossly exaggerating his enunciation. I just encountered it on FB and remembered several of the comments earlier in the thread. I wasn't making a point and again I apologize.
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Apology accepted Josiah. My post was probably triggered by previous posts on this thread related to this. Its fine and good to be proud of your own mother tongue, we all are, but we must remember to be respectful of other cultures' languages too.
 
The variations in accent from town to town amazes me. My area the accent is different from the town across the loch, and Glasgow is very different from both etc.
 
I'm surprized that a Scot would find German 'ugly'. I think that it's a far more natural language for us northeners to speak than French which I would consider somewhat 'effeminate'. I really enjoyed living, working and visiting Germany - and learning their language.

Tschüss, Ich habe Wichtigeres zu tun.
 
Capt Lightning said:
I'm surprized that a Scot would find German 'ugly'. I think that it's a far more natural language for us northeners to speak than French which I would consider somewhat 'effeminate'. I really enjoyed living, working and visiting Germany - and learning their language.

Tschüss, Ich habe Wichtigeres zu tun.
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I find German very harsh as well.
 
Capt Lightning said:
I'm surprized that a Scot would find German 'ugly'. I think that it's a far more natural language for us northeners to speak than French which I would consider somewhat 'effeminate'. I really enjoyed living, working and visiting Germany - and learning their language.

Tschüss, Ich habe Wichtigeres zu tun.
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I don't like French either..however it's less harsh on the ears and I'd hate to think for a second that my Soft Scottish lilt sounded anything remotely resembling the German accent
 
AS, try watching lots of French movies with English subtitles, eventually you will absorb some by osmosis. I love French movies and find after a while I can understand more and more of it. Amazing!
 
Oooh we all learned French at school..and although I was very far from fluent in it by the time I left school it did serve me well on my visits to France as an adult...however the very funny thing is that when I moved to Spain and was learning Spanish it took me ages to not answer in (not English as you would imagine ) but FRENCH...Whatsupwiththat ??? I suppose because it was a foreign language learned in my formative years, my brain just wanted to revert into it..as the only non English language I knew.


I lived and worked in both Germany and Italy...I only ever learned rudimentary Italian and I wish I'd learned more...but the German? Nein !!
 
We had French at school too and I lived in Quebec for several years, but I was never fluent. Maybe your brain retained the language, like riding a bicycle or typing, you never forget!
 
I never chose to learn a language in school. It was optional. Off and on I work on my Rosetta Stone programme which is really good.
 

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