Nothing will convince me Ulster Scots is a language, come on lads, “menfolks lavatries” that’s a dialect or coloquiism at best.
September 17, 2024
Nothing will convince me Ulster Scots is a language, come on lads, “menfolks lavatries” that’s a dialect or coloquiism at best.
by hansboggin
22 comments
Edit “menfowk”
It’s daft.
Sod the english irish debate we need classes for this language.
“Weeminfowks”
Also, fuck places that don’t have unisex baby change facilities.
It just sounds like an American doing a bad Scottish accent doesn’t it
Fuckin embarrassing
gibberish.. . . . if you pronounced those words in a bristol accent, they would equally resonate
Please tell me this is photoshopped 🙏
I can has culture?
It feels more like the signage is there for someone who speaks fully english to aggressively brag to their kids about knowing and insulting them for not being taught it
Wat tee fawk
Holy shit this is funnier than Dutch
Ulster Scots is not a language, it’s a dialect of Scots. Scots is definitely a language. The fact that you can read it means fuck all. German speakers can read Dutch and Luxembourgian, and vice versa. Any speaker of any mainland Scandinavian language can read the other two. Try convincing a Dutchman that he’s speaking a German dialect, or a Norwegian that his language is just a variation of Danish. I dare you. Is minic a bhris béal duine a shrón.
I do agree that it’s annoying how people will drag out Ulster Scots as a distraction maneuver in a conversation about Irish, and most of them don’t seem to care in any other way. But I also think that’s sad really. There’s a long, distinct Scots cultural and historical tradition, a part of which is in Ireland, and it’s just as worthy of preservation as Irish. Pity that most people of that cultural background don’t actually care about it.
I’m not a linguist at all but we all understand it because we’re from here and speak a lot of it already without even knowing.
Indonesia and Malaysia speak very similarly and can often understand eachother but I don’t think Malaysians would appreciate it if you told them they just spoke a dialect of Indonesian rather than malay, the language. Likewise Indonesians speak Indonesian , they don’t speak ‘malay with an accent”
Yeah they’re very closely related, but they’re still languages.
At least Wikipedia lists it as a dialect ;u; Definitely not a language, and thank fuck because it just sounds daft ;-;
Jaysus that’s embarrassing
Holy shit is this a joke?
Today I learned. I innocently thought it was supposed to be “mawns shitters”.
22 comments
Edit “menfowk”
It’s daft.
Sod the english irish debate we need classes for this language.
“Weeminfowks”
Also, fuck places that don’t have unisex baby change facilities.
It just sounds like an American doing a bad Scottish accent doesn’t it
Fuckin embarrassing
gibberish.. . . . if you pronounced those words in a bristol accent, they would equally resonate
Please tell me this is photoshopped 🙏
I can has culture?
It feels more like the signage is there for someone who speaks fully english to aggressively brag to their kids about knowing and insulting them for not being taught it
Wat tee fawk
Holy shit this is funnier than Dutch
Ulster Scots is not a language, it’s a dialect of Scots. Scots is definitely a language. The fact that you can read it means fuck all. German speakers can read Dutch and Luxembourgian, and vice versa. Any speaker of any mainland Scandinavian language can read the other two. Try convincing a Dutchman that he’s speaking a German dialect, or a Norwegian that his language is just a variation of Danish. I dare you. Is minic a bhris béal duine a shrón.
I do agree that it’s annoying how people will drag out Ulster Scots as a distraction maneuver in a conversation about Irish, and most of them don’t seem to care in any other way. But I also think that’s sad really. There’s a long, distinct Scots cultural and historical tradition, a part of which is in Ireland, and it’s just as worthy of preservation as Irish. Pity that most people of that cultural background don’t actually care about it.
This is my favourite one.
https://preview.redd.it/q33vun06rcpd1.jpeg?width=3201&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=692a5734d114f4588b512c2ac93255b43ca1547f
Dyslexia at best, the concepts an insult to other languages
Dialects definitely
Isn’t it as much of a language as other very similar but different languages?
https://www.reddit.com/r/northernireland/s/ByJjIQkbaR
I’m not a linguist at all but we all understand it because we’re from here and speak a lot of it already without even knowing.
Indonesia and Malaysia speak very similarly and can often understand eachother but I don’t think Malaysians would appreciate it if you told them they just spoke a dialect of Indonesian rather than malay, the language. Likewise Indonesians speak Indonesian , they don’t speak ‘malay with an accent”
Yeah they’re very closely related, but they’re still languages.
At least Wikipedia lists it as a dialect ;u; Definitely not a language, and thank fuck because it just sounds daft ;-;
Jaysus that’s embarrassing
Holy shit is this a joke?
Today I learned. I innocently thought it was supposed to be “mawns shitters”.