Simpler version
Simpler version
It's definitely Y2K causing this.
Simpler.Originally Posted by Kikó
Telegram's fine.
I'm a twit
Is anyone else unable to watch videos? They all seem to buffer after a few seconds
Not working for me on Firefox but they do work on Edge.
East London at its finest...
Can someone please explain this SING YOUR DIALECT thing that seems to be popping off?
I'm a twit
That ending.
There's alot to unpack there.
Soppy bollocks crying on camera
What’s going on
I'm a twit
Strong replies.
Just brilliant.
eLON mUSK HAS JUST BOUGHT A $2.9BN STAKE IN tWITTER, TAKING HIM TO 9.2%
FUCK CAPS.
Kiko’s Father in law turning up at Scottish parliament and appearing on my Twitter feed is not what I was expecting tonight
Hope he was doing a Michael Stone.
He seems to have triggered a number of people for speaking Scots again. A lot of people have an issue in accepting it as a language.
It's not a language any more than scouse or geordie are a language. It just happens to be located in a place where people are grasping for tenets of nationalism at the moment.
Sure, that's an opinion.
Having just read a transcript, it seems to be just the phonetic spelling of English with a Scotch accent
Not an entirely unexpected one either.
It's just English in a silly voice.
It just sounds like people from Aberdeen or the highlands and that’s the worst accent in the world.
Probably the Europeans fault.
In other words, it's a dialect with special political interests attached.As there are no universally accepted criteria for distinguishing a language from a dialect, scholars and other interested parties often disagree about the linguistic, historical and social status of Scots, particularly its relationship to English. Although a number of paradigms for distinguishing between languages and dialects exist, they often render contradictory results. Broad Scots is at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum, with Scottish Standard English at the other. Scots is sometimes regarded as a variety of English, though it has its own distinct dialects; other scholars treat Scots as a distinct Germanic language, in the way that Norwegian is closely linked to but distinct from Danish.
If youre only picking out the exact bits you want from that passage, with added little englander on top.
The worst accent in the world is that croaky voice accent American women do.
The Irish accent that sounds American (Jedward) is bad too.
And then there's Scouse which is offensive on every level.
The best accent is Nigerian.
Most accents are fine if somebody doesn't have a really thick accent and most are awful if they do because they become unintelligible to the uninitiated.
I'm not sure. Thick American accents from the South are amazing. As is Jamaican, even of it is impossible to understand.
Jamie Carragher is the worst person on earth though.
I agree with Ian. No regional accent itself is really good or bad, it's the thickness that makes or breaks it. I work with a guy from the Wolverhampton area and his accent is very mild so it's absolutely fine; conversely, I used to work with a guy with one of the thickest Black Country accents imaginable. Dreadful.
Thick anything (Geordie, Scouse, Essex) are all equally awful in their own way. My wife is from Sunderland but her accent is barely noticeable; her dad's is horrible.
Listening to the likes of Viv Richards and Michael Holding on cricket coverage would maybe have me venture that old West Indian men are winning the best accent chat.
That's the most depressingly centrist, libdem opinion about something non-political (ish) I've ever read.
Oh I love the rich tapestry of regional identities in our country, as long as they're middle class and sound basically like RP with a tiny dash of their local accent.
Somebody's got a horrible West Midlands accent they're feeling defensive about.
If 'scots' (scotch) is what 'fifers' speak then maybe there is a case for it being a language as even native wee heavy bawbag speakers generally have no idea what they're on about, in my experience.
My dad had a cousin from 'the Kingdom of Fife' and no one ever knew what he was on about. That said, he was also legally mad for some sort of (scam) benefit reason I think, so maybe that played a part.
Yo am a barmpot, yam half-soaked?
He's not from Fife.
You lot sound even worse when you're moping. Pack it in lad.
Ear of the beholder innit.
I love the Brummie accent, probably my favourite in the country, don't think there are many who do.
You might be the only person I've ever encountered who thinks that way, and I'm from the Midlands.
Welsh is the one.
I used to fancy this girl from Neath solely because she had the most soothing, melodic accent and anything she said would make me more or less glaze over.
Fife is a proper grim place aside from St Andrews and a few other. Glenrothes, Kelty and Cowdenbeath should all be shut down. Kirkcaldy isn’t much better.
I've been to Kirkcaldy. Once was more than enough. Spoke to at least one bloke who may as well have been talking in Sumerian for all I understood.
Considering most trains stop there and it’s one of the biggest places there, the high street in particular is a bomb shell of a place
Where are you from, I'm trying to remember your voice from the discord...Nottingham? Some sort of east midlands anyway is my guess.
My own accent is rubbish, it's like a very nondescript west midlands accent, but without the fun of a proper brummy/black country accent, or even something like a northampton accent. My mate from eastleigh thinks all of us from rugby "sound like yamyams", but he would think that, the thick southern cunt.
Coventry originally but I've moved about so much my accent is a mishmash of bollocks now. Because of the school I was at in Doha for a few years I was reet posh at one point and then coming back to Coventry, then Lincolnshire and now however many years in Scotland my accent is a bit generic English at this point I think. Though I think while I've probably picked up some Scottish turns of phrase I don't hear it in my actual accent, but then I suppose I wouldn't.
Dentist asked if I was from New Zealand the other day as a confirmation that my accent is a nonsense.
New Zealand? I always just thought you sounded reasonably well spoken English.
I once had one person say they thought I sounded Norn Iron but they're literally the only one so I think they might've just been a bit dim.
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