Comment on Most legible scottish person
x4740N@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I can’t figure out what half of that says and want a translation
Comment on Most legible scottish person
x4740N@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I can’t figure out what half of that says and want a translation
edinbruh@feddit.it 1 year ago
Being lesbo sucks. I tell a girl that she’s banging and I get “coming from you 🙂”. Literally no, I’m not saying that to be your pal, I’m saying that to shag you…
Or something, I’m not Scottish
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 1 year ago
maybes naw but ye ken fit like. pure spot on man
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I can barely understand the gist of what you wrote. I’m genuinely curious how English did this… I assume from mixing with Celtic/gaelic languages?
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 1 year ago
No idea. The Doric branch of Scots is something else, it’s wild. Even if two people local to a particular area from thirty or forty miles away are gabbin awa to each other, I can just about follow the thread of the conversation but I couldn’t pick out every single word.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I don’t think anything in @edinbruh@feddit.it’s comment is particularly Celtic/Gaelic-inspired.
Banging is slang for hot. Pal means friend. Shag means have sex with. They’re all fairly common slang in the English language even outside of Scotland. Mostly in England, but elsewhere in the Commonwealth most people would be familiar with the terms, even if it wouldn’t be the first slang term they themselves would use.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Do Scottish people use “fit” like that? I know it’s used in England, particularly the north, but I don’t think I’ve seen it from Scotland. Probably says more about how much exposure I’ve had to Scottish culture though.
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Yes and no - it can be used to express someone finding another attractive, but in certain parts (particularly the NE) it’s more of a nuanced “what”, with it’s specific meaning depending on context.
Language is wild.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 year ago
Can someone explain why anyone would reply like that? I am not a native English speaker. I could understand “coming [to answer the door] for you, queen” but not anything “from you”.
eels@kbin.social 1 year ago
It’s short for something along the lines of „that statement means a lot coming from you, as you are also very attractive“
GelatinGeorge@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not quite: it means “yeah, but you’re a girl so you would say that to be my friend”. Source: I’m terminally Glaswegian
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Looks like you’re getting a lot of interpretations. I’d have thought it was more like: “Because you’re a lesbian and have particular appreciation for female attractiveness, your comment has made me feel like a princess!”
ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world 1 year ago
excellent or impressive. “a beautiful celebrity with a banging bod”
So I might say m8. For an example that’s some banging scran you got there m8