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Re:Classism in America by dboreham on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @10:39AM (#11439032)
Pretty much everyone in or from Scotland (true or not) does this to some degree.
Re:Classism in America by wil421 on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @11:10AM (#11439275)
For me, the Scottish accent is the hardest of the English accents for me to understand. I work with English speakers from New Zealand/Australia and India to the UK/Ireland.

English and Scottish sayings/slang are my favorite. Southerns have some good sayings but they are not as enjoyable for me to hear, maybe because I used to them.

Re:Classism in America by arethuza on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @06:06PM (#11442556)
There are quite a lot of Scots accents and dialects - my wife, who is from near Glasgow, can't understand a word of anything said in the dialect I used as a kid as I'm from a completely different part of Scotland (Moray).

Indeed when I was growing up even though I was in a rural area people who lived on farms had a noticeably different accent from those of us who lived in coastal fishing villages even though the farms might only be a kilometer or so from the coast.

e.g.

“A ken a ken im, but a da ken far a ken im fae.”

or

"I know I know him, but I don't know where I know him from".

And of course, I was a "wee loonie" when I was younger.

Edit: Of course, the biggest crime I commit when it comes to class is, of course, using "toilet" rather than "loo".

Re:Classism in America by pjc50 on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @11:44AM (#11439512)
I remember having to interpret between an Ulsterman and an Afrikaaner, both of whom were nominally speaking English but to mutual incomprehension.
Re:Classism in America by gilleain on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @11:24AM (#11439364)
It's hard for lifts to understand as well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avp9aUkM5g0

Re:Classism in America by mdpopescu on Thursday April 07, 2016 @01:24AM (#11444913)
(Non-native English speaker here.) I worked for a Scot in Dublin for three months before I realized his accent wasn't Irish. I also had almost no problem understanding him.

On the other hand, I find it almost impossible to read text that is supposed to show Scottish accent, like the one from arethuza.

Re:Classism in America by arethuza on Thursday April 07, 2016 @04:43AM (#11445717)
Listening to that phrase would be worse in reality as folk from the North East of Scotland tend to talk quite quickly and without proper breaks between words.

I've probably said something like that many times when I was younger (I now have, as someone described it, an "affected Edinburgh accent"). However, you can get silly Scots phrases like:

"Fit fit fits fit fit?"

Or, my favourite:

"Aye, ane an an ingin ane an a"

The latter I can't say without almost singing (and smiling).