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― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 28 July 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Are these part of your "gritty street urchins" collection Stevie?

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 28 July 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Is Madchen a Brit who lives in Scotland or a Scot who lives in England? I never did know.

― MaryMary, Thursday, 28 July 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

she's english, in scotland

ally looks so young, in that photo!!!

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

a "brit" who lives in scotland. umm, yes :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

so do you RJG!

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

Sigh. Today's chapter of my Scots history was all about the '45 and Culluden and all that. Terribly depressing.

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 07:00 (twenty years ago)

STOP PRESS: It was closer than we thought

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 07:14 (twenty years ago)

According to this book, it was actually quite a good thing both for Britain and for Scotland that they didn't win. But it was still depressing to read about how Highlanders were driven by some misguided sense of "honour" to fight for some bloke who'd never set foot in Scotland before, hadn't ever even seen a kilt before and didn't speak a word of Scots or Gaelic. (Yes, I know all of these things are cliches I should be well accustomed to, but it's very different from the version that my family go on about.)

I would actually like to go and visit again as an adult. I remember being taken by a child, and not being very impressed by much, except running around chasing my brother screaming and pretending to go at him with a claymore or something. My mum said there was a book where you could look people up to see if any of your ancestors had died there, and she claimed to have found quite a few.

I did like the descriptions in the book of the Highlanders being so terrifying that most of the early battles just involved the loyalists turning around running away. :-)

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 07:21 (twenty years ago)

I like the phrase: "Dinae get tickets on yourself doll".

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

Who says "dinae"?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

I only ask because "doll" seems very Glasgow and "dinae" disnae

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

Someone's in the kitchen with Dinae, someone's in the kitchen, I kno-ooo-ooo-ow, Someone's in the kitchen with Dinae... strummin' on the old banjo!

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

My ex-flatmate Kate. From Dundee. She should be on this thread too as a Scottish person that I like.
If I've spelled any of the above liked phrase wrongly, then just put it down to being English and shamelessly appropriating the cultures of others.

Or just say I can't type for the life of me, especially using this mysteriously bouncey keyboard.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

Oh from Dundee, they do say "dinnae" up there

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

Two 'n's - Thank you.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:22 (twenty years ago)

My flatmate, from Fife, says "the noo". I like that.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)

Of course, I say that AND "Och aye"!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

I would like to point out I was most taken with the concept of having tickets on oneself. (Not that I do etc etc despite being accused jokingly several times)

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

What does "having tickets on oneself" actually *mean*?

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

i wish i could say och aye

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

Someone who has tickets on themselves considers themselves to be gallus. Hope that helps.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

Considers themselves to be A Roman Emperor?

I'm even more confused now!

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

What is the noo? I've always been afraid to ask.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

That photo gives me the wullies.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

Noo=now

― Stew (stew s), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

More likely a Moron Emperar.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

"The now?"

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

Just now, yes.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

I found myself saying "yon" (for "that") the other day. Just slipped out.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

"Och aye the noo" = "Oh yes, just now"

I once heard of a guy at Celtic Park saying "aw naw er Annoni on an aw noo" which is brilliant if you say it quickly.

(trans: Oh no! There's Annoni* on as well now)
(*Enrico Annoni: pish Italian defender who was once Celtic's highest earner)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

My favourite is "Ah'm urnae" - which seems to translate as "I am are not"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

As I understand it, it means you fancy yourself a bit.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 29 July 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

O. M. G.

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/language/scots/index.htm

It's pure mad n'at huvvin yer ain pairliment n'at ay?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

That is the best thing I've ever seen!

Even better than "Glaswegian Windoos" or whatever it was called.

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was a piss take at first.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

It is aften yaisefu tae ken aboot the Pairlament an whit is gaun on in it afore ye get involved or hae yer say. There sindry weys tae get mair speirins anent the Pairlament or oniething in this leaflet.

That makes the linguist in me roll over on my back and waggle my arms and legs in the air with joy!

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

It's a bit too close to Chewin' The Fat's "Translated for the Neds" sketches for my liking.

Awright troops!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Well, I did actually read one of their documents ... and the first one that was translated was all about "how to increase communication in minority languages"

(And FWIW, Scots is not just a "Translated for Neds" type dialect - it is actually a separate language, related to Old English/Anglo Saxon but with more Scandinavian influence and less Norman.)

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

aye right

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Or Report on Inquiry intil the role o educational and cultural policy in uphaudin and bringin oot Gaelic, Scots and minority leids in Scotland (Volume 1) as they would have it.

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

If that's not a dialect I don't know what is.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Just a reminder to you chaps that it's Mr.Fiendish's 30th birthday do tomorrow at Mono from 8pm.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

That's like saying that Modern English is a dialect of Anglo Saxon!

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Why has ILX got so Scottish lately, anyway?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

It's where it it's at.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

What am I talking about? I need to go home.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Where is home?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

The line between a language and a dialect is pretty blurry. Where it's blurry, I think what gets called what has as much to do with politics as linguistics. But then, I don't know anything about it.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

It is blurry and think you have to leave it to the speakers, really. If they call it a separate language then it's a separate language. It helps if they have their own nation (see Norway). I read about this once. I think Kate has read more.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

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