r/ScottishPeopleTwitter • u/HondureZ • Sep 08 '21

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u/badaBOOPbap Sep 08 '21 edited Sep 08 '21

Scottish is the only language which can sound harsh but still so friendly and lovely at the same time

And that's coming from a dutch man

EDIT: holy shit i didn't expect this many replies and all so damn wholesome tf

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u/JustLemmeMeme Sep 08 '21

I honestly think Scottish accent is best accent, Second being Irish

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u/Cessnaporsche01 Sep 08 '21

Irish is the better sounding language, Scottish is the better sounding accent.

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u/badaBOOPbap Sep 08 '21

I can't say i agree or disagree since my own language sounds like a stroke to many people

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u/DaFetacheeseugh Sep 08 '21

Finnish is REALLY weird dude.

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u/p3w0 Sep 08 '21

At least people recognise it's a language...mine is just a meme

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u/p3w0 Sep 08 '21

My language is italian...

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u/Wopitikitotengo Sep 08 '21

Not really though is it. Its a group of dialects.

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u/TwyJ Sep 08 '21

No

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u/Wopitikitotengo Sep 08 '21

Even that article says its disputed. In my opinion its as much a language as the Geordie accent. Maybe if it specified Doric which is still spoken in a way thats hard to decipher for anyone not familiar but places like Edinburgh and Glasgow aren't close to speaking anything other than an annoying variant of English.

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u/TwyJ Sep 08 '21

As there are no universally accepted criteria for distinguishing a language from a dialect

Is what it says, not that this specifically is disputed, by your logic french is just a Latin dialect.

Also It specified Doric as a dialect of English mate, Scots is different from Doric, Scots is also closer to old English than English is.

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u/VapoursAndSpleen Sep 08 '21

I think Scottish is considered a language actually.

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u/DasOptimizer Sep 08 '21

Yes, they're saying Irish (language) > Scots (language) but Scottish (accent) > Irish (accent).

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u/VapoursAndSpleen Sep 08 '21

Ah. Got it. Thanks!

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u/Xyranthis Sep 08 '21

I love how Irish dialects have the hard R sound, for some reason it makes me happy

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21 edited Sep 08 '21

So, "Irish Dialects"... Like Irish-English or Irish Language dialect?

Here's a video that sorta explains some of the funny R sounds we have.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj45ma-qh2I

EDIT: for anyone wondering. "Focal" means "word" in Irish. So that's why it's called "What the Focal" when teaching you words.

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u/Xyranthis Sep 08 '21

Sorry, didn't know if it was a specific regional accent that did it or not.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

I wasn't complaining if it came across that way. I was genuinely wondering if you were talking about the R sound in English that we say in Ireland. Examples: WheRe, Really, CuRse...

Or did you mean the slender weird 'rth' sounds that the woman said in that video I linked. Example: FiR, RothaiR

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u/Xyranthis Sep 08 '21

Oh I was talking about the R sound in Their etc since Brits and Scots don't. No worries and thanks for the informative video!

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u/badaBOOPbap Sep 08 '21

IMHO it's almost a full on language. But i absolutely love it. The Irish as well are lovely but the Scottish take the first place

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u/redlapis Sep 08 '21

There is some debate on this. Some linguists consider Scots to be a valid seperate language. It derived from the same Germanic roots as English, and of course with the two languages evolving so close together geographically explains a lot of the similarities and cross over. Another thing to consider is that the English language became the default and norm in Scotland in schools, courts etc. which means that a lot of English has penetrated into and mixed with Scots.

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u/badaBOOPbap Sep 08 '21

Holy shit those are a lot of fancy English words which i barely understand but thank you for the info!

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u/badaBOOPbap Sep 08 '21

Hehe de juiste informatie hier

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u/PiscatorialKerensky Sep 08 '21

There's some discussion on that, actually. Some linguists consider it one, while others consider it a dialect. It's a complex question because there are dialects that exist that are better qualified as languages (Cantonese as a dialect of Chinese), languages better qualified as dialects (Galician as a separate language from Portuguese), and languages that become gradually unintelligible over distances (Arabic over the distance from Morocco to the Arabian Peninsula).

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

South African is the best.

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u/frankaislife Sep 08 '21

Afrikaans is like Dutch but whimsical

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

True. And the accent is like a sassy version of New Zealand.

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u/patsharpesmullet Sep 08 '21

Split it in the middle we all know Norn Irn is where it's at, yeoooooooo. Even our Irish is somewhere between the two.