Was where

[krooton]

You must get annoyed a lot then living in London, one of the most linguistically diverse cities in the world!

Given I live in London, why on earth do you think I would strike up conversations with strangers?

Headphones are securely in place when I am out and about.

 

[whitecrook]

And Glaswegians ending random sentences with but. Know what I mean but?

It's not specifically a Glasgow thing, it's a more 'West Coast' type of thing, although Glasgow does have stronger connections with the West than the East.

Mostly, you can just 'put' the 'but' at the start of the sentence, to regain 'proper sense'.

e.g. "what about me, but?" -> "but what about me?"
"great fish and chips, but." -> "...but great fish and chips.[out of a particular chip shop]"

"know what i mean but" -> "but [do you] know what I mean"

Just the way people talk here but.

 

[Dasheh]

I find it amusing how anyone can link an accent to intelligence.

I can't stand their, there and they're being mixed up, or hear and here. I also saw someone write 'where' for 'wear'. That's all written though. It generally doesn't bother me when someone has a different accent or speaks differently. In fact, the only accent that can get on my nerves at times is the southern accent. I'm lumping the entire south in to that, bloody southerners.

 

[Haggisman]

Why are so many people picking up on accent? The OP was about people using the wrong words in the wrong places, e.g. bought/brought, "I were there" instead of "I was there" etc.

You can have an accent and still speak correctly.

 

[Raymond Lin]

She might have to drop slang and dialect, but she shouldn't have to change her accent. Likewise with the comment about getting to the top of an industry profession- it hasn't stopped Alan Sugar or Duncan Bannatyne, has it?

I'm a big fan of accents, they're a massive part of a person's identity. It's a shame that some people still look down on people that have accents, especially broad ones.

Was talking about accents the other day at work and a woman mention one of her relatives family's accent talk like they are in song, she has never grasp what they are saying.

I can't imagine one of those people hosting match of the day for example. Not talking like that, they would need to drastically change the way they talk. Drop all the phases that they consider normal and adopt a way that is contrary to what they had been taught and brought up with and adopt a way of speaking that is alien to them.

 

[whitecrook]

fit doo ?

 

[Ahleckz]

It's not specifically a Glasgow thing, it's a more 'West Coast' type of thing, although Glasgow does have stronger connections with the West than the East.

Mostly, you can just 'put' the 'but' at the start of the sentence, to regain 'proper sense'.

e.g. "what about me, but?" -> "but what about me?"
"great fish and chips, but." -> "...but great fish and chips.[out of a particular chip shop]"

"know what i mean but" -> "but [do you] know what I mean"

Just the way people talk here but.

Christ, you're from Clydebank and this is quite a sensible post. Fancy a pint in the Radnor on Wednesday?

 

[Cosimo]

I've noticed a lot of (younger) people recently don't seem to have time to say the words 'to' and 'the' in sentences. I see it a lot on a dating website I'm on where girl list their interests as:

going pub
going cinema
going town

A guy I work with frequently announces he's "Going Tesco" for lunch, and being the padantic arse I am he gets corrected every day too!

One of these days they'll lose to "going" and just say "pub" and make a "going" sound. God help us when they do.