Following up to FDM

    >>and might put some off!
    >I certainly won't go to Shetland without a translator :)

Shetland? I has no trouble there. Perhaps something snipped added
a different sense.
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Following up to James Silverton

    > I was brought up in the little
    >West-coast town of Oban, about 90 miles from Glasgow. Altho' I
    >had visited Glasgow many times, I found understanding local
    >people very difficult

You can guess what's it like for a Londoner! Glasgow has to be
the hardest accent in UK to understand, although its taken me a
few days to fathom some Cornish fishermen.
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chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h
offy wrote:
    > The BBC is collecting examples of many local UK accents and dialects,
    > and putting them on its website-
    >
    > http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/

One of my favorite lines (I wish I could remember its source) is "If
I were any more Cockney, I could hardly talk at all!"


In a cantina in La Línea de la Concepción, Andalucia, just across the
air strip from Gibraltar, a Glaswegian, a Londoner, and I were
conversing at a table. The Glaswegian and I understood nary a word
said by the other. The Londoner couldn't understand why he had to
repeat everything for us.


Joe Jung, a well known San Francisco restaurateur, spoke with a thick
but clear Chinese accent. He, a woman, and I were in a room. The
woman couldn't understand a word he said although he understood her
perfectly well. I was almost in the Londoner's position.
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The wrote on Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:52:05 +0100:

??>> I was brought up in the little
??>> West-coast town of Oban, about 90 miles from Glasgow.
??>> Altho' I had visited Glasgow many times, I found
??>> understanding local people very difficult

TR> You can guess what's it like for a Londoner! Glasgow has to
TR> be the hardest accent in UK to understand, although its
TR> taken me a few days to fathom some Cornish fishermen.

Try Aberdeen! As spoken by a farmer, Glaswegians find it pretty
unintelligible. There is a very ancient story about an
agricultural show in Glasgow and a Glaswegian saying he could
understand a farmer's collie dog better than he could the owner.

James Silverton.

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:35:20 -0400, James Silverton wrote:

    > The wrote on Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:52:05 +0100:
    >
    > ??>> I was brought up in the little
    > ??>> West-coast town of Oban, about 90 miles from Glasgow.
    > ??>> Altho' I had visited Glasgow many times, I found
    > ??>> understanding local people very difficult
    >
    > TR> You can guess what's it like for a Londoner! Glasgow has to
    > TR> be the hardest accent in UK to understand, although its
    > TR> taken me a few days to fathom some Cornish fishermen.
    >
    > Try Aberdeen! As spoken by a farmer, Glaswegians find it pretty
    > unintelligible. There is a very ancient story about an
    > agricultural show in Glasgow and a Glaswegian saying he could
    > understand a farmer's collie dog better than he could the owner.
    >
    > James Silverton.

LOL! I cun joos imadjin thaa'

--
Tim C.

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 03:56:50 -0700, Icono Clast wrote:

    > One of my favorite lines (I wish I could remember its source) is "If
    > I were any more Cockney, I could hardly talk at all!"

LOL!
--
Tim C.

The Reids wrote:
    >
    > Following up to FDM

    > >I certainly won't go to Shetland without a translator :)
    >
    > Shetland? I has no trouble there. Perhaps something snipped added
    > a different sense.
    >
I find Zetlanders and Orcadians _much_ easier to understand, than
Glaswegians.

Sheila

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:52:05 +0100, The Reids
<[email protected]> wrote:


    >You can guess what's it like for a Londoner! Glasgow has to be
    >the hardest accent in UK to understand, although its taken me a
    >few days to fathom some Cornish fishermen.

"fathom" I like that. Not quite the same as two metre-ing them. :-)
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Following up to Martin

    > fathom some Cornish fishermen.
    >"fathom" I like that

glad someone noticed :-)
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On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:34:45 +0100, The Reids
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >Following up to Martin
    >> fathom some Cornish fishermen.
    >>"fathom" I like that
    >glad someone noticed :-)

You've been plumbing the depths since your Ramsgate adventure.

Have you thought of taking up sailing?
--
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Following up to Martin

    >>>"fathom" I like that
    >>glad someone noticed :-)
    >You've been plumbing the depths since your Ramsgate adventure.

or swinging the lead?

    >Have you thought of taking up sailing?

if someone gives me 500,000
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On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:07:23 +0100, The Reids
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >Following up to Martin
    >>>>"fathom" I like that
    >>>glad someone noticed :-)
    >>You've been plumbing the depths since your Ramsgate adventure.
    >or swinging the lead?

Nothing new there then :-)

    >>Have you thought of taking up sailing?
    >if someone gives me 500,000

Think, Optimist :-)
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    > I know that when Trainspotting was shown in US cinemas, it was often
    > (though not always) shown with subtitles. I've seen UK programmes
    > sometimes use subtitles with regional _UK_ accents! (Usually
    > documentaries etc.)

I can understand about 99% of Trainspotting without subtitles. It's just
that one interview scene that loses me every time...

Richard

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:07:23 +0100, The Reids wrote:

    > if someone gives me 500,000

UR Mixi aicmfp!
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We were visiting Leeds Cathedral a few years ago when an elderly man
came up to us and asked (phonetic transcription);

"T'shup-urr-pen ?"

We shook our heads and smiled, not understanding a word.

Again, he asked "T'shup-urr-pen ?".

We shrugged and said (probably a little slower and louder than was
entirely polite):

"Sorry, we don't un-der-stand..."

At which point he looked at us like we were the dumbest creatures on
the planet and said (perfectly clearly though with a pronounced
Yorkshire accent):

"I said - Is, the, shop, op-en ?"

Needless to say, at this point we slunk quietly off to hide until our
red faces had subsided !

Nick