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Ecstatic Laughter In The Evenings
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braveheart60uk wrote: »Foos do?
far ye fae min/quine?
LOL
Lol no East enough for that, I hail fra sneckie with the fair maiden LFAB , love the Doric it's so rhythmicThe person who never makes a mistake never learns anything.0 -
braveheart60uk wrote: »Strangest thing I find about meals up here in as David would call "Heathenland" is the difference in stovies. In majority of my life been in NE Scotland, stovies 2nd/3rd day mince wi tatties mashed in, served wi pickled beetroot and of COURSE oatcake. Yet elsewhere it can be corned beef and other items. In NE it was traditionally a way to mak food last longur.
Anywun spik the doric wud be a treat fur mi, miss it a lot an cannae find a bettur wa tae express maesel :-)
Fit like ma loon0 -
fairclaire wrote: »I don't speak it as a rule but I do understand it and once had to 'translate' a call from a man up that way that a colleague took
spent my childhood years in that general sort of area
I always thought the language was more descriptive, although I have always been taught to speak properly. We had two languages, proper English and Doric, my family were involved in a German research about language where it is believed both languages are seperate.
Personaly I use "proper" English in day to day, but is Doric when spikin tae ma pals an faemily., find generic language too constricting, but needed to use when in general discussion.
here is a whoop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0DGA2VV3cI0 -
Lol no East enough for that, I hail fra sneckie with the fair maiden LFAB , love the Doric it's so rhythmic
Oh Izzey you would have loved my translated phonecall
'av been ooot on ma boooat for goan five days noo. I gits hame and the wive tells mi av to phone yees. Fits the prublem like?' :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:0 -
braveheart60uk wrote: »A good outlook and as I have observed, true to how you see life. Others may find you offensive, but they are the blinkered ones. To be judgemental is to be bigotted. I wish I, and everyone could just see people and not segredation, our DNA is virtually identical and deep down we have the same loves/hopes/desires/concerns and all the other human feelings. We just need to have tolerance and think how others perceive us.
Oi!! Stop me.am doing more than one rant a day!!
:eek::eek:moi never they are just too uptightWhen The Fun Stops Stop0 -
braveheart60uk wrote: »Foos do?
far ye fae min/quine?
LOL
One does not understand what ones subjects are talking about tonight
(Queens English, Balmoral dialect):A NI FEIDIR ACH LE DIA BREITHIUNAS A DHEANAMH ORM0 -
braveheart60uk wrote: »Strangest thing I find about meals up here in as David would call "Heathenland" is the difference in stovies. In majority of my life been in NE Scotland, stovies 2nd/3rd day mince wi tatties mashed in, served wi pickled beetroot and of COURSE oatcake. Yet elsewhere it can be corned beef and other items. In NE it was traditionally a way to mak food last longur.
Anywun spik the doric wud be a treat fur mi, miss it a lot an cannae find a bettur wa tae express maesel :-)[/QUOTE]
Fit like ma loon
Ah, yeh ken I am a lad, Ye fae Aberdine? I deliberately used loon tae seek ya oot :cheesy:
Wid spik aboot beasts an' uthur things tae confuse folk. Blue toon? Broch? foggyloan?
Sum think Doric may actually be Pict. A just lik it cause a can be at hame wi folk. Now wantin tae gae bak up north, past Abroath :-)0
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