Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Scotland, Ireland, England

Scottish, British, Irish.

Yeah I thought so too.

They're not.

Actually these different dialects (because they are dialects, not accents) are not the same. They even have a historical background! Wow, this world really is full of information. That type of global ignorance is really common in cases like these. People think the population in Africa is composed by starving kids, Colombia is a jungle, Israel is a war force and that Scotland, Ireland and England are the same. We divide the English language into two worlds: the U.S. and not the U.S., which would come to be all of these English-speaking countries that to the worlds eyes (except themselves) are England but not so pretty.

That North American egocentrism is rather a small contradiction. Scottish - and Irish as well - was responsible for the spread of English through North America and added an accent to it.


Yay! A little bit of Scottish, Irish and Enlgish folk for us. 


One does not simply understand Irish. If one does not understand Irish, how does one understand Scottish? One does not either.

I saw a comment in the video (kintakintyea) that caught my attention, because that is how these dialects look like through our non-comprehending eyes:


Weel aat weis verra gweed ma freen' thunken yea fur posten aat veedio' eit broacht a greet tae ma een!
Lang meiy yer lum reek ma freen!!
Gordon

Typical ignorant but funny and relatable joke. 

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