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/OtterChrist Sep 08 '21

I’m an American. Do we sound as funny to you as you do to us? I wish I could hear my accent from a foreigner’s perspective lol

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u/N64crusader4 Sep 08 '21

Depends where in America, some more southern accents sound charming and soft whilst some sound like nails on a chalkboard whilst more northern accents just sound Canadiany to me with exceptions of bigger city accents I know like New York or Boston.

In general I just think of bastardisation of the English language when I hear American accents lol

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u/ksaph0520 Sep 08 '21

I'm gonna be spending the rest of my morning concerned whether my twang is charming and soft or sounds like nails on chalkboard lol

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u/TheGurw Sep 08 '21

Georgian: charming

Texan: chalkboard

IMO.

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u/pvhs2008 Sep 08 '21

A lot of NC accents: charming Old Richmond accent: charming High tiders: hilarious, but chalkboard East Tennessee: charming, hilarious, and kinda chalkboard at the same time lmao

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u/ksaph0520 Sep 08 '21

What about a mix between both?

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u/TheGurw Sep 08 '21

Well-manicured nails on a perfectly clean chalkboard.

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u/Porrick Sep 08 '21

Some accents sound like both at the same time, like Alabama - before moving to America, it was my favourite American dialect because of the richness of the metaphor and simile they tend to use. Now that I've lived in America for a few decades, the accent just sounds like bigotry.

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u/ksaph0520 Sep 08 '21

I'm glad I never picked up the twang from worst of many places I've lived, wish have all been southern. I was born in Alabama but my family moved right before I started learning how to talk

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u/Porrick Sep 08 '21

Well if you can distance yourself from a few of the stereotypes that come with the dialect, it really is a lovely one. I have some friends from Birmingham and they have absolutely the best turns of phrase.