What are your unpopular opinions? (Vol. 2)
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
nickfrog said:
Not sure. My wife is British, a linguist and we routinely speak to people from different backgrounds whether in the UK or abroad. She agrees that McCoist is incomprehensible at times.
I'm a Londoner and have never had an issue understanding Ally McCoist. Yes, he has a strong Glasgow accent, but he's easily comprehendible. nickfrog said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
nickfrog said:
Not sure. My wife is British, a linguist and we routinely speak to people from different backgrounds whether in the UK or abroad. She agrees that McCoist is incomprehensible at times.
I'm a Londoner and have never had an issue understanding Ally McCoist. Yes, he has a strong Glasgow accent, but he's easily comprehendible. 
Ali Mcoist is not hard to understand?
nickfrog said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
nickfrog said:
Not sure. My wife is British, a linguist and we routinely speak to people from different backgrounds whether in the UK or abroad. She agrees that McCoist is incomprehensible at times.
I'm a Londoner and have never had an issue understanding Ally McCoist. Yes, he has a strong Glasgow accent, but he's easily comprehendible. 
e-honda said:
Nethybridge said:
No, voters can be and are thick, but people who desire to be a cog in the machinery of deciding the country's future should have a minimum level of intelligence.
It is known that 25 current UK MPs have never uttered a word in parliament this year, why are they there ?
To listen maybe?It is known that 25 current UK MPs have never uttered a word in parliament this year, why are they there ?
President Merkin said:
I went to universiy in Newcastle, spent four happy years there, it's an amazing city. On my very last night, got chatting to an old boy from Wallsend in a bar & couldn't understand a word he was saying. Divvent dunsh us, wah Geordies.
My elder son married a lass from the North East. Her dad and brother ran a fishing boat out Seahouses catching crabs and lobsters. We were on holiday up there once and by chance ran into them on the dockside while they were unloading a catch. We had a pleasant chat.When I later told my daughter in law about it I said I was really proud of myself that I must be getting better at untangling the local dialect, as I understood everything they were saying. She said, Oh no you didn’t. If you understood them they were putting it on for you. On their own, you wouldn’t have understood a word.
Roofless Toothless said:
My elder son married a lass from the North East. Her dad and brother ran a fishing boat out Seahouses catching crabs and lobsters. We were on holiday up there once and by chance ran into them on the dockside while they were unloading a catch. We had a pleasant chat.
When I later told my daughter in law about it I said I was really proud of myself that I must be getting better at untangling the local dialect, as I understood everything they were saying. She said, Oh no you didn’t. If you understood them they were putting it on for you. On their own, you wouldn’t have understood a word.
Can remember being on a golf course in Portugal with my dad and him having a chat with a father and son, obviously from Sunderland, about football for about 10 minutes, I’m not really much of a football fan so I stood by politely.When I later told my daughter in law about it I said I was really proud of myself that I must be getting better at untangling the local dialect, as I understood everything they were saying. She said, Oh no you didn’t. If you understood them they were putting it on for you. On their own, you wouldn’t have understood a word.
Bearing in mind two of my best mates are from Newcastle and Sunderland, their accents were so deep I didn’t have a f
king clue what they were on about and I was blown away that my Dad actually did.I asked him how on earth he understood them, he said he didn’t; he just picked out the odd footballer name or team amongst the way-aye and rambled about them for a minute or so before letting them carry on
By the time I left, I could easily tell a Mackem from a Geordie. Even over 20 short miles, the difference in accents is detectable. Impenetrable sometimes but still.
My favourite would be middle class people from Gosforth. Lovely sing song lilt to it. You'd think Jesmond would be the same but Heaton & Sandyford keeps a lid on them.
My favourite would be middle class people from Gosforth. Lovely sing song lilt to it. You'd think Jesmond would be the same but Heaton & Sandyford keeps a lid on them.
TwigtheWonderkid said:
I'm a Londoner and have never had an issue understanding Ally McCoist. Yes, he has a strong Glasgow accent, but he's easily comprehendible.
I'm not sure if I'd even say Coisty's accent was particularly strong compared to some you hear round Glasgow. I'm from Dundee and was brought up by parents from Lanarkshire, but even I struggle in Glasgow sometimes, especially if the locals have had a drink. The hardest accent I find to understand though are some from Norn Iron. We had a guy at work from there with a thick accent and the Norn Iron tendancy to mumble a lot - was never any the wiser as to what he'd said.
bodhi said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
I'm a Londoner and have never had an issue understanding Ally McCoist. Yes, he has a strong Glasgow accent, but he's easily comprehendible.
I'm not sure if I'd even say Coisty's accent was particularly strong compared to some you hear round Glasgow. I'm from Dundee and was brought up by parents from Lanarkshire, but even I struggle in Glasgow sometimes, especially if the locals have had a drink. The hardest accent I find to understand though are some from Norn Iron. We had a guy at work from there with a thick accent and the Norn Iron tendancy to mumble a lot - was never any the wiser as to what he'd said.
I worked for many years in a Chinese takeaway. The owner was well-educated and spoke good English but I had to interpret whenever someone from the sticks of the Ards Peninsula was in, or a drunken Glaswegian over for the 12th parades. Almost unintelligible.
‘Local’ Glaswegian and Cumbernauld can be v hard to understand, many years ago I’d be up there weekly with work and in many meetings/conversations I had to ask the locals to repeat (kindly of course!) up to 3 times what they said, on the 3rd if I still don’t get it I’d just nod and say ‘yes’. Sometimes got a strange look as they must have asked an open question to which ‘yes’ was odd
GT03ROB said:
e-honda said:
Nethybridge said:
No, voters can be and are thick, but people who desire to be a cog in the machinery of deciding the country's future should have a minimum level of intelligence.
It is known that 25 current UK MPs have never uttered a word in parliament this year, why are they there ?
To listen maybe?It is known that 25 current UK MPs have never uttered a word in parliament this year, why are they there ?
deeen said:
GT03ROB said:
e-honda said:
Nethybridge said:
No, voters can be and are thick, but people who desire to be a cog in the machinery of deciding the country's future should have a minimum level of intelligence.
It is known that 25 current UK MPs have never uttered a word in parliament this year, why are they there ?
To listen maybe?It is known that 25 current UK MPs have never uttered a word in parliament this year, why are they there ?
President Merkin said:
By the time I left, I could easily tell a Mackem from a Geordie. Even over 20 short miles, the difference in accents is detectable. Impenetrable sometimes but still.
My favourite would be middle class people from Gosforth. Lovely sing song lilt to it. You'd think Jesmond would be the same but Heaton & Sandyford keeps a lid on them.
It’s funny (and maybe a bit worrying) having lived in the West Midlands for 10 years I can tell a 5-10 mile difference.My favourite would be middle class people from Gosforth. Lovely sing song lilt to it. You'd think Jesmond would be the same but Heaton & Sandyford keeps a lid on them.
There was a bloke who started work at my local pub near Reigate, within 30 seconds I asked him if he was from Tamworth and he was absolutely gobsmacked, he was from Kingsbury about 2 miles away
Anywhere between Birmingham, the Black Country, Derby and Rugby is a bit of a blend IMHO and you can often guess by the mixture
My Mrs is from Aldridge and gets the hump when I mock her with a bit of Yamming but to my ear it’s 80% Black Country 10% Brummie and 10% Tammy
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