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rambling_lunatic ,

I am not a native speaker. Prolonged exposure to the demoman from TF2 meant that I could understand all of this on first try. I am proud.

majestic ,

I know for sure, it something about lesbians…

Smoogs ,

Is there a Duolingo for this particular language?

fne8w2ah ,

Ddhuud ,

I think I’m having a stroke.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

They have trouble getting elevators to understand them too.

crackajack ,

I understood that, surprisingly.

UnfortunateShort ,

2nd attempt, but I got there

bratosch ,

First attempt I was like “wtf am I reading?” then I read it with a Scottish accent and it made perfect sense

clark ,
@clark@midwest.social avatar

Words can’t describe how much I love this tweet.

dylanTheDeveloper ,
@dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world avatar

The names James, Bond James, Bond James is having a stronk call the bondulance

teuast ,

Bond Name’s the james

Goblin_Mode ,

Nonds the name, bames nond. bames Nonds having a strong. Please call the bondulance

Jackcooper ,

I swear Scottish people are the only ones who type in their own phonetic accent

Swarfega ,

Not exactly the same but I hate reading the Americans now typing “y’all”.

Jackcooper ,

I’m a northerner and I still had to accept the unimpeachable logic that y’all is a versatile and useful word

chicken ,

The English language is sorely lacking gender neutral pronouns so it’s nice that one is getting added

blubfisch ,

It’s not new actually. Maybe revived. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

chicken ,

I meant y’all

HowManyNimons , (edited )

“You” is gender neutral, in its singular and plural form. “Y’all” is a useful plural form of “you” but as a New Zealand-English hybrid I do not have the accent to pull it off. If I could shift my accent further north perhaps I could get away with “thou” and “ye” for singular and plural forms, but only where they fit grammatically.

chicken ,

It is explicitly plural where ‘you’ is hard to pull off as plural because it leans heavily towards singular, just like ‘they’ leans heavily towards plural. At least in the US afaik the main competitor is ‘you guys’ for plural, which is one of those terms that is normally meant as gender neutral but the words clearly are not. So despite being from a place where that is the correct way to say it I’m in favor of y’all becoming the standard across the whole language, which it seems like it might be moving towards doing.

SCB ,

“ya’ll” is also American English’s answer to the problem of not have a plural form of “you” (see also: “you guys” or “you all” from which ya’ll is derived).

Due to English being heavily influenced by Romance languages, but not taking its grammatical structure purely from them, we really had no single-word version of “vous” (I don’t know other romance languages aside from French).

dejected_warp_core ,

Easily America’s best contribution to civilization, after “right (turns) on red”.

And I’m glad it’s catching on instead of “you’uns”, “yuns”, or “yous”.

Lemminary ,

I’m not American and I will forever type y’all because it’s useful and I like it lol

Thief_of_Crows ,

Y’all is just a useful word, other ways of referring to a group of people are ambiguous, esp. now that They doesn’t always mean multiple

problematicPanther ,
@problematicPanther@lemmy.world avatar

y’all is a legitimate word and i’ll fight you over it.

DeepGradientAscent ,
@DeepGradientAscent@programming.dev avatar

Why?

It’s just a contraction that represents “you all”.

As in, “Ever since I moved to Europe, it seems [y’all/you all] seem to hate Americans to try to look cool in front of your friends.”

Retrograde , (edited )
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    Demdaru ,

    Is it tho? I have to often times actually cool off people I know because they praise USA so hard without knowing shit.

    DeepGradientAscent ,
    @DeepGradientAscent@programming.dev avatar

    I’m an American who’s been lucky enough to travel to many other countries, and I’m currently living in the EU.

    Blanket statements on praise-worthiness are stupid; one should only praise things, people, and nations when and where they deserve it. There’s a lot to admire and there’s a lot to be disgusted at when considering just about every country and government.

    What I find in EU culture socially is that people are far more exclusionary, prone to isolationism, and prejudicial about my and my countrymen’s competence and intelligence than what I was told to expect. I expected some “haha, dumb American” memes, but I didn’t expect people here to honestly believe everyone thinks and acts like our worst people back in the US. It was very eye-opening in a negative way.

    EU citizens need to stop treating outsiders as 1-dimensional caricatures, but regrettably, that’s been one of humanity’s greatest faults, and I doubt it will be rectified anytime soon. I try not to get too butt-hurt about it, as we say, but it is irksome after encountering that attitude in conversation after conversation.

    Stamets ,
    @Stamets@lemmy.world avatar

    Newfies do the same. Was a whole fuckin thing to unlearn when I found the Internet lol

    vithigar ,

    Yes, and so many of them do it wrong, it’s crazy.

    Don’t know how many times I’m after seeing “bye” instead of “b’y”. Stunned.

    Stamets ,
    @Stamets@lemmy.world avatar

    Shockin b’y

    TheDarksteel94 ,

    Lots of people do it here in Austria too, and I hate it.

    johnyrocket ,

    En Gruess us dr Schwytz!

    ordellrb ,

    Non e Gruess vor schwiz

    soulsource ,
    @soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    A geh, is doch iagendwie liab, oda?

    Übahaupt, jetzt wo si Hochdeutsch imma mea duachsetzt, und vü junge Leit übahaupt nimma richtig östareichisch^1^ redn leanan, missn ma doch schaun, dass unsa Sproch net oafoch ausstiabt, oda?

    Mia hom a a longe Tradition, wonns um Mundoatdichtung geht. Da Dichta von da obaöstareichischn Hymne zum Beispü, da Stelzhamer Franz, hot gonz vü in Mundoat gschribn.

    Und weis ma grod eifoit: Es gibt a a eigene Wikipedia in unsam Dialekt: bar.wikipedia.org Oba do dua i ma söm schwah, dass i des vasteh. De is scho in da äagstn von de oagn Mundoatn gschribm.

    (So, jetzt woas i net, wöcha Sproch i im Dropdown do untn auswöhn soid… Wei wirklich Deitsch is des jo net…)

    [^1^] I am fully aware that the dialect I’m writing in is not called “Austrian”. The two big dialects spoken in Austria are “Alemannic” and “Bavarian”, and the one I’m writing is the Bavarian dialect. I’m only using the word “östareichisch” here, because that’s what I expect most people to use in spoken conversation.

    TheDarksteel94 ,

    Oh Gott, Oida. Ich habs gerade geschafft, den Text zu entziffern. Aber ernsthaft, ich glaub bei sowas immer auf den ersten Blick, dass da wer nen Schlaganfall bekommen hat und einfach mit dem Gesicht über die Tastatur gerollt ist lol.

    soulsource ,
    @soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    War ja auch nicht ernst gemeint. Ich bin bei diversen Chats im Freundeskreis eigentlich immer der einzige, der auf Hochdeutsch antwortet 😉.

    BluesF , (edited )

    Scots isn’t just an accent, it’s a language in its own right.

    Although honestly I’m not sure how much of this is Scots and how much is just specific to Scottish twitter lol

    So actually having done some more reading this isn’t Scots - I’m fairly sure this is Scottish English which is somewhat a merging of Scots with English.

    nudnyekscentryk ,
    @nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info avatar

    Looks a dialect to me

    force ,

    yea and galician “looks like” a dialect of spanish, norwegian “looks like” a dialect of danish, and afrikaans “looks like” a dialect of dutch. hell, i can say english “looks like” a dialect of ulster scots. “dialect”/“accent” and “language” are meaningless words

    that being said the text in this post is scottish english, not scots

    nudnyekscentryk ,
    @nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info avatar

    what I was referring to was the wikipedia definition of Scots

    BluesF ,

    Wikipedia does explain that Scots and English are sister languages, they both descend from Old English. Neither is a dialect.

    chalupapocalypse ,

    I miss scottishpeopletwitter, did that move over here?

    lilsolar ,
    @lilsolar@sh.itjust.works avatar

    U can make one, then post the reddit posts here until the sub goes off

    crackajack ,

    The least politically loaded and agenda-pushing peopletwitter. That sub encapsulates the lightheartedness of Scottish people.

    ObviouslyNotBanana ,
    @ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world avatar

    Just don’t ask them about Brexit

    someguy3 ,

    “Ye x”? So her ex?

    ccdfa ,

    x = kiss

    FartsWithAnAccent ,
    @FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world avatar

    legible

    Unaware7013 ,

    Most legible

    Most is doing a ton of heavy lifting there.

    x4740N ,
    @x4740N@lemmy.world avatar

    I can’t figure out what half of that says and want a translation

    edinbruh ,

    Being lesbo sucks. I tell a girl that she’s banging and you get “coming from you 👸🏼”. Literally no, I’m not saying that to be your pal, I’m saying it to shag you…

    Or something, I’m not Scottish

    PhobosAnomaly ,

    maybes naw but ye ken fit like. pure spot on min

    TrickDacy ,

    I can barely understand the gist of what you wrote. I’m genuinely curious how English did this… I assume from mixing with Celtic/gaelic languages?

    PhobosAnomaly ,

    No idea. The Doric branch of Scots is something else, it’s wild. Even if two people local to a particular area from thirty or forty miles away are gabbin awa to each other, I can just about follow the thread of the conversation but I couldn’t pick out every single word.

    Zagorath ,
    @Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

    Do Scottish people use “fit” like that? I know it’s used in England, particularly the north, but I don’t think I’ve seen it from Scotland. Probably says more about how much exposure I’ve had to Scottish culture though.

    PhobosAnomaly ,

    Yes and no - it can be used to express someone finding another attractive, but in certain parts (particularly the NE) it’s more of a nuanced “what”, with it’s specific meaning depending on context.

    Language is wild.

    ChaoticNeutralCzech ,

    she’s banging

    “coming from you 👸🏼”

    Can someone explain why anyone would reply like that? I am not a native English speaker. I could understand “coming [to answer the door] for you, queen” but not anything “from you”.

    ShitOnABrick OP ,
    @ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world avatar

    excellent or impressive. “a beautiful celebrity with a banging bod”

    Scran is slang used to describe food,leftovers etc

    So I might say m8. For an example that’s some banging scran you made m8

    eels ,

    It’s short for something along the lines of „that statement means a lot coming from you, as you are also very attractive“

    GelatinGeorge ,

    Not quite: it means “yeah, but you’re a girl so you would say that to be my friend”. Source: I’m terminally Glaswegian

    HowManyNimons ,

    Looks like you’re getting a lot of interpretations. I’d have thought it was more like: “Because you’re a lesbian and have particular appreciation for female attractiveness, your comment has made me feel like a princess!”

    Annoyed_Crabby ,

    Relevant

    FuyuhikoDate ,

    I am lovin it!

    yamanii ,
    @yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

    This meme was peak, best thing about those games.

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