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I swear Scottish people are the only ones who type in their own phonetic accent
Scots isn't just an accent, it's a language in its own right.Although honestly I'm not sure how much of this is Scots and how much is just specific to Scottish twitter lolSo actually having done some more reading this isn't Scots - I'm fairly sure this is Scottish English which is somewhat a merging of Scots with English.
Looks a dialect to me
yea and galician "looks like" a dialect of spanish, norwegian "looks like" a dialect of danish, and afrikaans "looks like" a dialect of dutch. hell, i can say english "looks like" a dialect of ulster scots. "dialect"/"accent" and "language" are meaningless words
that being said the text in this post is scottish english, not scots
what I was referring to was the wikipedia definition of Scots
Wikipedia does explain that Scots and English are sister languages, they both descend from Old English. Neither is a dialect.
I'm not sure where the line between Scottish English (dialect) and Scots (language) is or where this post lies tbh. There's a complicated relationship between those two and standard English.
Lots of people do it here in Austria too, and I hate it.
A geh, is doch iagendwie liab, oda?
Übahaupt, jetzt wo si Hochdeutsch imma mea duachsetzt, und vü junge Leit übahaupt nimma richtig östareichisch1 redn leanan, missn ma doch schaun, dass unsa Sproch net oafoch ausstiabt, oda?
Mia hom a a longe Tradition, wonns um Mundoatdichtung geht. Da Dichta von da obaöstareichischn Hymne zum Beispü, da Stelzhamer Franz, hot gonz vü in Mundoat gschribn.
Und weis ma grod eifoit: Es gibt a a eigene Wikipedia in unsam Dialekt: https://bar.wikipedia.org/ Oba do dua i ma söm schwah, dass i des vasteh. De is scho in da äagstn von de oagn Mundoatn gschribm.
(So, jetzt woas i net, wöcha Sproch i im Dropdown do untn auswöhn soid... Wei wirklich Deitsch is des jo net...)
[1] I am fully aware that the dialect I'm writing in is not called "Austrian". The two big dialects spoken in Austria are "Alemannic" and "Bavarian", and the one I'm writing is the Bavarian dialect. I'm only using the word "östareichisch" here, because that's what I expect most people to use in spoken conversation.
Oh Gott, Oida. Ich habs gerade geschafft, den Text zu entziffern. Aber ernsthaft, ich glaub bei sowas immer auf den ersten Blick, dass da wer nen Schlaganfall bekommen hat und einfach mit dem Gesicht über die Tastatur gerollt ist lol.
War ja auch nicht ernst gemeint. Ich bin bei diversen Chats im Freundeskreis eigentlich immer der einzige, der auf Hochdeutsch antwortet 😉.
En Gruess us dr Schwytz!
Non e Gruess vor schwiz
Newfies do the same. Was a whole fuckin thing to unlearn when I found the Internet lol
Yes, and so many of them do it wrong, it's crazy.
Don't know how many times I'm after seeing "bye" instead of "b'y". Stunned.
Shockin b'y
Stay where you're at 'til I comes where you're to!
I hate reading the Americans now typing "y'all".
I'm a northerner and I still had to accept the unimpeachable logic that y'all is a versatile and useful word
The English language is sorely lacking gender neutral pronouns so it's nice that one is getting added
It's not new actually. Maybe revived. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
I meant y'all
"You" is gender neutral, in its singular and plural form. "Y'all" is a useful plural form of "you" but as a New Zealand-English hybrid I do not have the accent to pull it off. If I could shift my accent further north perhaps I could get away with "thou" and "ye" for singular and plural forms, but only where they fit grammatically.
It is explicitly plural where 'you' is hard to pull off as plural because it leans heavily towards singular, just like 'they' leans heavily towards plural. At least in the US afaik the main competitor is 'you guys' for plural, which is one of those terms that is normally meant as gender neutral but the words clearly are not. So despite being from a place where that is the correct way to say it I'm in favor of y'all becoming the standard across the whole language, which it seems like it might be moving towards doing.
"ya'll" is also American English's answer to the problem of not have a plural form of "you" (see also: "you guys" or "you all" from which ya'll is derived).
Due to English being heavily influenced by Romance languages, but not taking its grammatical structure purely from them, we really had no single-word version of "vous" (I don't know other romance languages aside from French).
Easily America's best contribution to civilization, after "right (turns) on red".
And I'm glad it's catching on instead of "you'uns", "yuns", or "yous".
Why?
It's just a contraction that represents "you all".
As in, "Ever since I moved to Europe, it seems [y'all/you all] seem to hate Americans to try to look cool in front of your friends."
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Is it tho? I have to often times actually cool off people I know because they praise USA so hard without knowing shit.
I'm an American who's been lucky enough to travel to many other countries, and I'm currently living in the EU.
Blanket statements on praise-worthiness are stupid; one should only praise things, people, and nations when and where they deserve it. There's a lot to admire and there's a lot to be disgusted at when considering just about every country and government.
What I find in EU culture socially is that people are far more exclusionary, prone to isolationism, and prejudicial about my and my countrymen's competence and intelligence than what I was told to expect. I expected some "haha, dumb American" memes, but I didn't expect people here to honestly believe everyone thinks and acts like our worst people back in the US. It was very eye-opening in a negative way.
EU citizens need to stop treating outsiders as 1-dimensional caricatures, but regrettably, that's been one of humanity's greatest faults, and I doubt it will be rectified anytime soon. I try not to get too butt-hurt about it, as we say, but it is irksome after encountering that attitude in conversation after conversation.
I'm not American and I will forever type y'all because it's useful and I like it lol
Y'all is just a useful word, other ways of referring to a group of people are ambiguous, esp. now that They doesn't always mean multiple
y'all is a legitimate word and i'll fight you over it.