Broad Scots / Lallans

[James MacMillan]

"pants" "elevator" "suspenders"!!!

"pants" = what the dog does when it's hot.

"elevator" = any foreign substance that when eaten causes blood pressure to rise, also sometimes, listening to idiots

"suspenders" = another name for mystery writers.

[McMurdo]

alricht...

this will bae a lang an oan gaein' thried....(sae visit often)

ai am tryin' tae pull a' the assorted

"Travelin' Tae Scotland" threids tegither in yin place...

sae oiny o' ya wantin tae travel tae Scotland oan yur Holiday

can come tae this threid an fin loads of information aboot it...

feirst... here arr the thrieds aboot "Traveling Tae Scotland"...

xmarkers give guid advice oan these threids....

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...ight=traveling

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...light=scotland

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...light=scotland

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...light=scotland



http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...light=scotland

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...light=scotland

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...light=scotland

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...light=scotland

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...light=scotland
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OK I've got a few minutes so here is what I am almost positive P1M is saying, I am not a dead fish either BTW, I will try to type slowly so you will completely understand.


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Alright

This will be a long ongoing thread (So visit often)

I am trying to pull all the assorted

"Traveling To Scotland" threads together in one place...

so any of you wanting to travel to Scotland on your Holiday

can come to this thread and find loads of information about it...

first... here are the threads about "Traveling to Scotland"...

xmarkers give good advise on there threads...

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Now that was not hard for me to do, and I do not have a PHD, I am doing this firstly as an example of how easy it should be to "translate" the variation of Scots that P1M uses, and secondly as a service to another member. I will not do it again as I find it easy and refreshing to read the posts from P1M and others using Scots, it to my mind adds a bit of colour, (or should I spell it color), to the threads here and I hope they continue to do so.

Here endith the Lesson

P.S. I did not find it necessary to translate the links if you need me to do that, well then good luck at school.

[starbkjrus]

Personally I don't see what all the fuss is about... As slohairt has said, P1M has done all the hard work for you... You don't even have to google anything, if you just sound it out, you'll figure out what in the world he's saying... If that's too hard for ya... well, a Ph.D. may be out of your reach. No offense meant, but really, isn't the world full of enough whining about petty things? Let's save our complaints for something important.

AMEN!!!

:beer: As I CAN understand it!

[Colin]

What do any of the past few posts have to do with the topic of Scottish Holidays? P1M has worked a fair bit to bring this information to anyone interested in vacationing in Scotland, so if people want to debate the merrits of broad scots, or translations, start a new thread.

[Mike1]

Since this seems to be taking on a life of its own, I've split it away from the travel thread and placed it in Off Topic.

[Archangel]

Don't particularly like it either but here's my take.

I've got a dear friend who loves Scotland and things Scottish. Almost every time he sees me, especially kilted, he talks to me in some Rabbi Burns kind of accent. Am I going to tell him to go away and boil his head? No, you don't throw your granny off the bus.

There's a couple of Scottish expressions for you. Some things friends do are worth putting up with. The Wickerman epic earned p1m the right to carry on.

[Archangel]

Ha, my son makes a good living in Japan teaching them what, "gimme a toonie for a 24 wanna doubledouble?", means.

Why do Canadian give you a fork for cake and ice cream?

Why do Americans put milk in coffee?

Why do we sit in the stands?

Why, if it goes by ship it's called cargo, but if it goes by car, it's called a shipment?

Park in the driveway, drive on the parkway?

Language is so much fun.

Y'all need to listen to Wonderful World one more time.

[James MacMillan]

And if you want wood for the fire, you chop it down and then chop it up!

Then there's inflammable and flammable...........

[Archangel]

One of my humour senses is wondering what somebody was trying to translate, or how would somebody translate that. Billy Connolly has done some skits on that.

Sometimes I look at those Wet Floor signs and wonder if it is a command.

Lallans, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Do you want to be friends or not?

Wait 'til somebody starts writing Parliano.

[drobin]

I just wish I could hear P1M say it.... well I guess I'll just have to save my pennies and get me and my kilt over there.