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the blog is filled with love today.
and by "love" i of course mean the word "fuck"
- gfy?PonyBoy
- Those 2 words have the exact same meaning in my thesaurus.NotByHand
- Dude, everyne knows that thesauruses are extinctlocustsloth
- killed off by lack of freshness7point34
- Just add some Hobos and innocent girls, and you'll have a perfect combo.Fariska
- killthefish0
I just stapled my head to my desk.
- did you at least collate first?7point34
- I spindled.killthefish
- ********0
Can you hear the drums, Fernando?
- I heard the drummer strike the sky...neue75_bold
- that can't be healthy..neue75_bold
- drummers of 2012********
- 7point340
when i write "hope" now, it looks wrong.
damn you, tim
- Don't blame me, blame the Scots.Horp
- i have compromised by writing "horpe"7point34
- Bon Scot is dead, dude. Can't blame himlocustsloth
- kelpie0
the funny thing is that the way spooky imagines scots saying the word "hope" illustrates his accent more than ours. As we roll our Rs and he doesn't; we would say hoRRp, whereas spooky is saying haWp, and we're actually saying hOppe, if anything. fascinating.
- I mean really really fascinatingkelpie
- fucking astOUNDINGkelpie
- i can imagine you saying hoope7point34
- I can imagine you saying "please tongue my hoop, neue" over and over again...neue75_bold
- just hop to it********
- I can also imagine that neue, it haunts my very waking dreamskelpie
- "Hoop Dreams"neue75_bold
- ********0
pouring like an avalanche
coming down the mountain- ever present football player rapist********
- i don't mind the sun sometimes.7point34
- ever present football player rapist
- ********0
despite resolutions to the contrary, feeling ill, ungrateful, disgruntled
- i am merely gruntled today. no more no less.7point34
- nothing doing then orso?********
- Fariska0
Oh cmon, is common knowledge you can't say the R properly.
try to say.
"Trentatre' trentini entrarono in trento tutti e trentatre' trotterellando"- you as in "you english speakers"Fariska
- I just did; perfectkelpie
- (scots pick up on that aspect of italian/spanish quicker than the english in my experience. rolled rrrrrrrrrs innit?)kelpie
- (I will now stop what sounds horribly like some nationalist puff ad)kelpie
- yep those rock'n'rolling RsFariska
- Yeah, there is something very weird about how "they" can't say a certain letter (I think it is "r", as you say).Jaline
- Actually, it's not weird. Just interesting. And I think I'm talking about something else. ex. "Rebeccer" instead of "Rebecca".Jaline
- "Rebecca"Jaline
- Khar kos'eh********
- locustsloth0
Your ballroom days are over, baby
- Horp0
HOrP would be the best way I can describe a Scot pronunciation. It would be short, strong, and the influence on the R would be less, but you do, none the less, say Horp. Even when Chossy recorded himself saying it to prove me wrong, he said horp.
A brummy says 'Owp.
Oy 'Owp yow-cun oondurstand wuot oim soyingg loike.
Brummies do the opposite of almost everyone else with regards to words anding in 'g'. Almost everyone drops the 'G' as superfluous but brummies actually elongate and ramp it up a bit.
Or youw lorfingggg at moi spoich moite?
- no he didn't. you heard an R because the english soften r's, you heard an extended Okelpie
- no I did not.chossy
- tha loife uv tha woife is ended buy tha knoife7point34
- Okay, if you are able, borth of you record yourselves saying hope and then drop it in for a carsting vort.Horp
- But could I also just add that its by no means meant to be hurtful or mocking, merely an observation.Horp
- aye, I know that, just gabbinggkkelpie
- kelpie0
more useful would be chossy or I or any other scotsman recording themselves saying 'horp' to illustrate the difference (or an italian or spaniard - anyone who rolls r's)
- kelpie0
another thing - when scots anglicise their voice (tv presenters, actors, public schoolboys etc) the thing you are talking about is the exact that changes. It is quite interesting; I've done it myself to be understood by people down south who couldn't make out a word I was saying
- ********0
That's the road
it's over there
and leading down to nowhere.- where the sidewalk ends7point34
- well I know what you wrote
on your overcoat********
- kelpie0
I hoestly think when you hear a scots O you hear more 'aw' in it, which you translate as a soft r (being surrounded by your countrymen), hence you think 'horp'.
its all context eh i suppose.
- Horp0
^ I once walked across the Brooklyn bridge into Brroklyn to find (I think) the temporary Moma site or some other gallery (I forget now) and nobody over that bridge, nobody at all, not one single person, could understand a single word I said, no matter how clearly or slowly, or loudly I spoke.
When I was over at Killthefish's in Cumberland, my Sat Nav wouldn't take me to his house. I pulled over to ask a family if they could help me find the right road as it was merely metres away and again it didn't matter how slowly, clearly or loudly I tried to speak to them in our shared language, they could not understand a single word. They were pulling frowny faces and saying "You French?... Arab? Honey I think he's an Arab..." and I'm going CAN. YOU. TELL. ME. WHERE. THIS. ROAD. IS. HERE. and pointing to my map.
Fucking nightmare.
- hahaha, try passing a scottish 20 pund note in london, then explaining that its legal tenderrrrrrkelpie
- night marekelpie
- lolJaline
- Those bitches probably still live down there. You want I should go kill them?killthefish
- canuck0
I'm working from home today. and bloody hell it's GREAT :)
Think I may even open a beer soon.
- ********0
Gleenz's "clever childhood reference" tshirts is really getting me pissed off for some reason. Can't put a finger on it, it just does.
- ********0
- please don't be waiting for me********
- http://www.timesonliā¦********
- please don't be waiting for me
- chossy0
Is it because your jewy lips get in the way?
(was that ok by the way sorry if it was offensive).