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Guys, Help Me Understand The Glasgow Patter
Christophe:
Last night, I watched a movie called Ratcatcher, which is about a 12-year-old boy living in 1973 Glasgow during the garbagemen's strike. To be quite frank, without the aid of subtitles I would not have understood 80% of the film.
I will be studying abroad in Glasgow this fall. This does not bode well for me.
Now Rob (the_pied_piper) has tried to make some headway with my understanding of the Glaswegian accent, but I keep not saving the links he sends me because I'm lazy. Anyone wanna help me out? Show me some good recordings of people with thick Glaswegian accents speaking and making me decipher them? Pointing me to several words that are in frequent use?
öde:
Just nod and smile.
the_pied_piper:
Tut, losing the links. Well, so you can't do it again i'll post them here aswell.
BBC Voices - Glasgow
Lonely Planet - Glasgow (just the last 10 seconds)
A Tourist's Guide To The Glaswegian Accent
If i find any more i'll edit this post and add them but just remember the most important one at least; despite being spelled Glasgow its actually pronounced "Glas-gee".
abbii:
As a Edinburger (therefore making me semi fluent in the Glaswegian tongue), I can say that the Glaswegian Accent cannot be learnt by text, this is impossible. It's one of the few languages that can only be learnt by immersion (IE: hearing and using it).
Metope:
Well then, looks like you're doomed, Chris.
Uh oh, that means I'm doomed too if I get into the art school there next year. Shit.
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