English to English Interpretation Please!

[Dean_Gretsch]

 

[danbob6]

Ha!
Two countries separated by a common language.

 

[RVT1K]

Kinda like when Austin Powers and his dad didn't want the girls in the room to understand what they were saying. At some point even the sub-titles became all "????".

 

[Dean_Gretsch]

My other half is a Yorkshire lass, and even she has trouble understanding the accent sometimes

 

[vintagesnaps]

I watch enough British TV, I get the gist of it til the end. I guess watching lots of Monty Python hasn't been enough help for this!

 

[Dean_Gretsch]

My favorite comedies are British. My other half's brother finds it amusing that I love British comedy so much.

 

[480sparky]

I watch enough British TV, I get the gist of it til the end. I guess watching lots of Monty Python hasn't been enough help for this!

British humor...... err.......... humour........... is a class all it's own!

 

[Jeff15]

They speak their own language in Yorkshire...............

 

[weepete]

Ah dinnae ken fit yon loons are spiking aaboot!

 

[Flying Panda]

Wasn't the Bulldog Winston Churchill's mascot?

 

[Dean_Gretsch]

Ah dinnae ken fit yon loons are spiking aaboot!

Ok, now we need another interpretation

Wasn't the Bulldog Winston Churchill's mascot?

Yeah, someone said he resembled a bulldog, and then people attributed characteristics of his to being like bulldogs, and it took off!

 

[Fred von den Berg]

My brother-in-law is a Yorkshire lad. My sister would act as an interpreter but, as she says, she has no idea what the barmpot is on about half the time!

 

[Dean_Gretsch]

Hmm...I don't think I have heard the Missus use that word before, so I looked it up. Glad I haven't heard her use that one before

 

[vintagesnaps]

He called us loons... or maybe loonies or lunatics and doesn't know what we're talking about! That sounds about right... I don't either sometimes!

 

[weepete]

Literal translation is "I don't know what those boys are on about" or near enough. Loons are boys in a dialect of the North East of Scotland.

Must admit I'm cheating a bit as I don't speak it as I'm really from the cental belt though I can understand most of it though context and a few words I know. But there's a lot of dialect in the Brittish Isles.

Not meaning to highjack but I love the different accents, regional words, accents and slang in Britian. I know more about it in Scotland but the Yorkshire words are great too.

Funny how these things spring up and with some people you can pinpoint where in the country they were brought up. I do have particular favorites: Orkney, the Western Isles, Shetland, the Borders, Fyfe and Dundonian all have particular traits and quirks in their language that I like and can pick out