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incoherentbabblings · 10 months ago

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I understand people joking about unintelligible accents/dialects sometimes I do but there is always something really surreal about seeing one that is either yours or one that you understand perfectly well being made the butt of a joke and you'll sit there like what's the joke they're being perfectly coherent!

There are many many many many examples of this but the one that is relevant for myself is the chap in Brave speaking Doric. He's not even speaking that fast.

If he was a wee bit closer I could lob a caber [tree trunk/log] at him, ken [you know]? and It's just nae fair making us fit [fight] for the hand of the quine [woman], it disnae whet an appetite, ken [you know]?

#just something I was thinking about #to be fair doric is mocked by scots because it does use certain lingo that glasgow and edinburgh don't and it does have a different rhythm #still #he's a nice boy who enjoys caber tossing and saying 'it just doesn't make sense' in the most poetic way possible #also see chicken run but i think the joke is more on the rooster for being ignorant than the hen rolling her rs #i think it's just if you aren't used to the pattern of speaking it can be hard #i have a pretty neutral english accent and when i was in washington dc the blooming concierge didn't understand me and i was so baffled #so... no judgement i know it's more than just being ignorant 9 times out of 10

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