LL-L 'Language varieties' 2006.06.26 (09] [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 26 June 2006 * Volume 09
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From: Paul Finlow-Bates <wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L 'Language varieties' 2006.06.24 (02] [E]

    From: Sandy Fleming
    Subject: LL-L 'Sports' 2006.06.22 (05] [E]

    >Now, some parts of Edinburgh; they are REALLY incomprehensible, I'm better of
    >with Dutch or German.
    >
    So, do you know what they're speaking? It might be Scots or a form of
    Scottish English that's heavily influenced by Scots phonemes (such as
    glottal stops for "t" and so on).

Dunno, can't understand enough to work that out!   I think it is the latter
though.  A good example was in a BBC series starring Robert Carlyle, playing a
drug dealer in a high-rise slum in Edinburgh.  As I might have mentioned before,
they sub-titled it...in the dialect/language they were speaking, so I couldn't
read it either!!!
 
Regarding the incomprehensible guy at my gym, there's only so many times you can
say "sorry, what was that?" before people start getting annoyed, especially if
they assume they are speaking "normally".
 
Paul

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