thas a real Thela Hun Ginjeet rit there that is what...huh?
have you ever heard Scouse (Liverpool)? need subtitles
If I recall correctly, the BBC aired a programme on the Geordies many years ago.
I miss her.
Translation. Jolly good show. (Newcastle) Brown ales for everyone on me.
Okay...the only one I understood was “Are yee daft?”.
And we thought Ebonics was bad!
Sounds vaguely like an Ocracoke brogue.
Nope, don’t understand any of it.
But hey, I understand and can speak Schwiizerdüütch, so I get some credit.
I love this quiz. Very fun with a group of people. It pinpoints where you are from in the USA by the way you pronounce words, or certain words used.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0
Love all the different words for kinds of rainfall. Hell no, in SoCal we don’t have words for that (one of the options in the quiz)!
Oscar Wilde was right.
6 ft tall, rangy and with legs that went on for miles ;)
Is it really ‘putting me in my place’ if I can’t understand a word of it?
I’ve run into that. Approached on the street in Oakland, CA by an older Numidian gentleman, who spoke for a full minute. I’m usually pretty good at figuring out what someone wants from the discernible fragments of recognizable language.
Given the circumstances of the encounter, I was forced to assume that he was asking me for money. He didn’t appear to be intoxicated at all. He wasn’t a bum or anything. He just spoke some dialect of the English language that was incomprehensible to me, and I can manage with people who are fresh-off-the-boat and can only speak a sort of pidgin.
I finally confessed that to my great regret, I couldn’t understand a single word that he was saying. He stormed off in a frustrated huff.
My paternal grandfather’s family was from County Durham (Pelton Fell) and I have heard that they called themselves ‘Geordies’. Never understood the origin of that. Thanks for posting.
Don’t know if he’s a Geordie, but listen to the English motorcycle racer, Guy Martin. You can tell he’s speaking English, but its hard to figure out what he’s saying.
Nothing better than a ^really^ good Scots-Welsh insult.
All else is pish.
During the period about thirty years ago, a dreaded psychopathic serial killer was on the loose. He was a truck driver, picking up women who service truck drivers. Another socio-path made up audio tapes taunting the police. He had a strong Geordie accent. The police had already tabbed the real killer, but were not ready to arrest him. Thinking the accent was that of a Newcastle native, they dropped the tail on Sutcliffe. The real killer was from Yorkshire, not County Durham. He later murdered four more unfortunate women, while the police searched elsewhere.
An expert then identified the miscreant who so deluded the authorities. He identified the voice down to an actual section. This of about three streets in Newcastle. The police then went door to door, they found there was a man who professed hatred for the police. The police arrested the hoaxer and he got 7 years imprisonment for impeding justice. Let out sooner than that however.
thas a real Thela Hun Ginjeet rit there that is what...