BS: The mither of all BS threads

Subject: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Nov 09 - 06:24 PM

All richt. Ye cannae post here onless ye post in Scots dialect. If it's nae Scottish, it's crap!

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 29 Nov 09 - 06:33 PM

Ye're daft, an' need a guid skelpin.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Ed T
Date: 29 Nov 09 - 06:47 PM

Wee hawk disnae soond loch a true scottish clan nam tae me.

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Ed T
Date: 29 Nov 09 - 06:50 PM

Ur ye a campbeel ur a clan donald? catholic ur hin...Wee hawk?

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 29 Nov 09 - 06:51 PM

Aiblins his mither wis fae Scoatlan an his faither wis fremit.

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Nov 09 - 07:54 PM

Fiddle dee dee, ya wee blatherskite. Postin' in the language of the sassenach and claimin' it's Scots!

(Mind you, historically "Scot" meant "Irish" and vice-versa and the two were inseparable. But that wouldna bother a Canuck.)

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 29 Nov 09 - 08:45 PM

I'm contacting the ACLU. I'm being discriminated against cuz me folks crossed the pond so long ago all we speak now is hillbilly.

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: GUEST,confused Brit
Date: 29 Nov 09 - 08:46 PM

mither - To make an unnecessary fuss, moan, bother.
          To pester or irritate someone.   
         
seems to make more sense to translate the thread title in this meaning rather than the dialect of the north of England and Scotland :)

*Postin' in the language of the sassenach and claimin' it's Scots!*

to skelp meaning to slap is an old English word btw!

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Ed T
Date: 29 Nov 09 - 08:48 PM

Wee haw, Ur ye a highlander, a lowlander ur a celt frae cape breton. Do ye hae hair under yer kilt, ur ur ye a yoong fellaw?

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Nov 09 - 08:49 PM

Eyup, yer mardarses...

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 29 Nov 09 - 09:13 PM

HAwkster is the mardarse.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Ed T
Date: 29 Nov 09 - 09:25 PM

Lardarse?

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Ed T
Date: 29 Nov 09 - 09:30 PM

Climate change main make uir scottish weaither better....maybe it will reach 13 C in th' summer.

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Nov 09 - 09:51 PM

*Aside* LMAO! good one, Janie! To the rest of ya, Lang may yer lums reek!

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Nov 09 - 10:01 PM

Ma mither's people cam frae bonny Scotland an' ma clan is MacGregor.

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Nov 09 - 10:33 PM

MacGregor.

Well, that explains an awful lot about you. Do you know who your father's people were?

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Nov 09 - 10:47 PM

Aye, Rapaire. They wis frae Czechoslovakia and they wis all completely daft. Their name wis "Yrtnevoc" wi' a wee daft symbol o'er the final "c" tae mak the "ch" sound. Tae fit in be'ter in England ma fither tairned the surname backwards tae read "Coventry", but the English wis nae fooled by that, sae he cam tae Canada (The True North Strong and Free) tae start afresh in a land where onyone can lairn tae be a grrreat actor or even becam prime minister ane day. (witness: William Shatner's career and Jean Chretien, etc...)

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 29 Nov 09 - 11:54 PM

Ye're a rare bawbag wi' a face like a skelpit erse. Awa' an' bile yer haid.

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Nov 09 - 12:52 AM

If your mother was a MacGregor who went to Coventry, how did you come to be?

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 30 Nov 09 - 05:33 AM

Is that a doughnut or a meringue ?

yer nae wrang laddie, it's a doughnut.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Ed T
Date: 30 Nov 09 - 07:46 AM

Th' Campbells also pit th' bitts tae th' Macgregors , didne they noo?

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Nov 09 - 09:57 AM

I'm being discriminated against cuz me folks crossed the pond so long ago all we speak now is hillbilly." lol Great line

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Nov 09 - 12:16 PM

Time tae see a wee bit o' Scottish culture...

Taysiders In Space!!!

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Nov 09 - 05:38 PM

Here's a grrreat book frae learnin' Scots dialect:

Luath Scots Language Learner

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 12:17 PM

There's some gey unco Lallans scrievit i this thread. Aiblins it's a Sassunachs talkin funny!

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 12:19 PM

Och aye!

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 01:08 PM

a'right. I'll do it... but I think yur too white for it

M' name is Angus Iben Ali
Caliph o the tay in old Dundee
I hang me heather in a Bedouin tent
I'm a camel ridin turban wearin lowland gent

Hemmm laddie hemmm laddie

I was cookin up a batch of haggis and fallafel
And I mus' admit tha' it smell's pretty awful
Me old friend Yogi he came alang
and he said "Hey Angus, what's that sang?"

Ayyyeie aaayyeiie yeiie rum tum diddlee idee di do day

In my caftan plaide there hangs to the floor
A scimitar the size of an old claymore
I wave to the lassies as I walk doon the street
and they say, "Hey Angus, Where's your troosers?"

Oh shite, at's the wrong song
I'll just have to play it again

We'll just wait for it to come aroond again on the doombek

Well tha's my song and it's not verrah guid
I only wrote it cause I knew I cuid
I'll sing barradee and I'll pipe till I'm blue
and then I'll play a little bodhran tune

Go Angus, Go Angus, Go Achbar

There is but one God
Bonnie Prince Charlie
And Robbie Burns is his prophet


That is a little song written by Master Effenwealt Whystle

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: gnu
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 01:41 PM

"Scottish"?

"skelpin"?

ooooooo...

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 01:50 PM

I've wander'd mony a weary fit

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 02:07 PM

Whit a braw sang ye writ, Virginia Tam! I hae a tear in my one guid ee...

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 02:19 PM

I forgot, sorry - "Wander'd mony a weary fit" (Burns, Auld Lang Syne).

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 03:30 PM

One true Scot, one who drinks nae but the heather's finest, one whose plaid is always laid, one who shows the best of Scotland and a Scots' ancestry, has not yet posted here. I doubt that he can be afraid ta do so, but where, oh where, is the immortal Shame McBride, scion of the Clan McBride, part of the MacDonald Clan Ranald, one who could ask to wear tartan 2144.

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 04:22 PM

Scottish - "in formal contexts stressing national or historical aspects"

skelp    - "smack (specif someone's bottom)"

Concise Scots Dictionary, 1985

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 05:22 PM

I think that Shane is Irish, Rapaire, nae Scottish. It micht be that there wis a distant Scottish connection tae the McBride line. I'll hae tae ask him....

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 10:27 PM

The Scots, as I noted before, were historically Irish and vice-versa. Both are languages are goidelic, demonstrating quite it quite clearly. In the same manner, parts of Wales, northern England, and the Isle of Mann are also goidelic (although prior to Scotti it may have had a Brythonic language. Shame's folks probably spoke either Gaulish or, more probably, communicated by a system of grunts and other bodily noises. In any case, I'm certain sure there was ne'er a tilt to his kilt.

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 10:31 PM

"goidelic"?

Well, ye may be richt, laddie.

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 10:37 PM

The Goidelic languages form one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic languages, the other consisting of the Brythonic languages. They historically formed a dialect continuum stretching from the south of Ireland, through the Isle of Man, to the north of Scotland. There are three modern Goidelic languages, Irish (Gaeilge), Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig), and Manx (Gaelg). These all descended from Primitive Irish through Old Irish and Modern Irish.

The Goidelic branch is also known as Q-Celtic, because Proto-Celtic *kʷ was retained in this branch (later losing its labialisation to become plain [k]), as opposed to the Brythonic branch, where *kʷ became [p]. This sound change is also found in Gaulish, so Brythonic and Gaulish are collectively known as "P-Celtic". In Celtiberian *kʷ is also retained, so the term "Q-Celtic" can be equally applied to it as well, although it is not a Goidelic language, just as Gaulish is not Brythonic.
Early Modern Irish was used as a literary language in Ireland until the 17th century, and its equivalent, Classical Gaelic was used as a literary language in Scotland until the 18th century. Later orthographic divergence has resulted in standardised pluricentric diasystems. Manx orthography, based on English and Welsh, was introduced in 1610 but was never widely used.

(From Rapaire's Confidential Informant)

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 10:44 PM

Very interesting, Amos.

I have not found much trace of those language roots in Shane's speech patterns. I don't think "bolthole" is a Goidelic word, for instance, but I'm not sure about "flip".

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 11:16 PM

Flip is a drink, much loved in the US in Colonial times, made from strong beer or ale, sweeting (maple syrup, dried pumpkin, sugar), a gill of rum, and heated with a red-hot loggerhead or poker.

Amos, why do you think I copied that information instead of writing it from my own knowledge? It is true, I suppose, as the poet wrote:

Faghaimse díreach brí chun buaite
Is feidhm id chaíntse a bhrídeach bhuartha.
Feicím, is is dóigh gur dóite an radharc liom,
Síolrach Órfhlaith Mhóire is Mheidhbhe,
An seifteoir caol is an créatúr cladhartha,
An ceisteoir claon is an déirceoir daigheartha,
Sú na táire is tál na coimse
Ag súil le sárfhuil sámh na saoithe.

Ah, well, I take comfort in the Ancient's words:

Am gáeth tar na bhfarraige
Am tuile os chinn maighe
Am dord na daíthbhe
Am damh seacht mbeann
Am drúchtín rotuí ó ngréin
Am an fráich torc
Am seabhac a néad i n-aill
Am ard filidheachta
Am álaine bhláithibh
Am an t-eo fis
Cía an crann agus an theine ag tuitim faire
Cía an dhíamhairina cloch neamh shnaidhite
Am an ríáin gach uile choirceoige
Am an theine far gach uile chnoic
Am an scíath far gach uile chinn
Am an sleagh catha
Am nómá tonnag sírthintaghaív Am úagh gach uile dhóich dhíamaíní
Cía fios aige conara na gréine agus linn na éisce
Cía tionól na rinn aige, ceangladh na farraige,
cor i n-eagar na harda, na haibhne, na túatha.

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Sep 10 - 09:04 PM

There's nae been muckle crack here awa newlins. Whit's the matter?

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Sep 10 - 09:33 PM

Wasn't this originally called "The zither of all BS threads"?

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 29 Sep 10 - 10:24 PM

No Rap, I think it was "The dither of all BS threads."

Seems kinda redundant, tho', don't it?

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: gnomad
Date: 30 Sep 10 - 04:18 AM

My apologies for a non-dialect post, but I feel you specialists might be amused by this YouTube video.

Please carry on, we lurkers enjoy this stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Sep 10 - 07:42 AM

LOL! That's grrrreat!

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 30 Sep 10 - 09:20 AM

snort... that's great

how aboot

whither all BS threads?

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Oct 10 - 06:21 PM

Wha's the cuif noo?

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Oct 10 - 06:39 PM

"Please type slowly and distinctly"

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Oct 10 - 06:46 PM

Whit d' ye mean? Ye're nae but an ill-farrant skellum, laddie.

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Oct 10 - 08:59 PM

Is this one of those "Carry On" films now?

Subject: RE: BS: The mither of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Apr 12 - 10:52 PM

Whaur's ma coo? Ah cannae sleep wi'oot ma coo!