And today I did......

[RobMac]

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Aye I'll be there ramorra, I'm glad you said the time I thought it was 11 :shock:

 

[old_coyote_pedaller]

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Think it's half ten because Keith's going tae a birthday doo in the pm. See ye there.

 

[RobMac]

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While I was out yesterday I had to pop into Leslie BS and what did I spot? One 'o' them f'n Fat Bikes a (Charge) I'm sure it was :shock:
"We're doomed" :facepalm:

 

[The History Man]

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The thread on the degradation and progression of the English language with the increasing use of Americanisms has made me wonder. Do you all actually talk like this or are you channeling John Laurie to preserve your heritage or retain identity?


Just wondering.

 

[RobMac]

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PMSL Brilliant.

 

[The History Man]

Up for a bit of ethnography? Not booked a holiday yet.

 

[epicyclo]

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The thread on the degradation and progression of the English language with the increasing use of Americanisms has made me wonder. Do you all actually talk like this or are you channeling John Laurie to preserve your heritage or retain identity?


Just wondering.

Whit? Och, aye.

 

[old_coyote_pedaller]

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THM, having discussed this very subject with some of the MacRetro guys in the past, our use of colloquial Scots instead of "proper English" in the written word on the MacRetro forums does make us feel more at ease in our "ain midden" (own midden), not that you are not welcome to participate. When I write stuff on MacRetro I'm just writing it, in the most part anyway, how I'd speak to the guys face to face as Scots with our own way of speaking. Many of us are of the age that when we were bairns at primary and secondary school were told/made to talk "proper", we actually weren't allowed to use the words that we used everyday at home, at play, our language was not given any value.
Nearly all our teachers were middle class, people who we'd regard as being "posh" and because we talked differently from them marked us as being definitely "non-posh".

So if we write proper English as I am doing now it feels like, for example, when I'm on the phone to people I don't know or say a job interview, well it really feels like I'm putting on a posh accent. As I write in colloquial Scots on MacRetro I hear it like that in my head, but not all of it is easily written down how it sounds, phonetics might be taking it too far. :mrgreen:

 

[The History Man]

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THM, having discussed this very subject with some of the MacRetro guys in the past, our use of colloquial Scots instead of "proper English" in the written word on the MacRetro forums does make us feel more at ease in our "ain midden" (own midden), not that you are not welcome to participate. When I write stuff on MacRetro I'm just writing it, in the most part anyway, how I'd speak to the guys face to face as Scots with our own way of speaking. Many of us are of the age that when we were bairns at primary and secondary school were told/made to talk "proper", we actually weren't allowed to use the words that we used everyday at home, at play, our language was not given any value.
Nearly all our teachers were middle class, people who we'd regard as being "posh" and because we talked differently from them marked us as being definitely "non-posh".

So if we write proper English as I am doing now it feels like, for example, when I'm on the phone to people I don't know or say a job interview, well it really feels like I'm putting on a posh accent. As I write in colloquial Scots on MacRetro I hear it like that in my head, but not all of it is easily written down how it sounds, phonetics might be taking it too far. :mrgreen:

Thanks for such an eloquent if sadly oppressed reply. It's a shame that you're colloquialisms weren't embraced. I myself am an 'English' teacher but concentrate on the creative and engaging rather than 'proper' English. If there is such a thing these days.

Hope nobody gets the mardis!

 

[dyna-ti]

What you need to keep in mind is this.