Highland Capital Posted July 1, 2020 Author Share Posted July 1, 2020 1 hour ago, Angusfifer said: I fell out with my mum over that very issue, as I refused to correct my two children as it was common usage in the playground. Never felt comfortable with the "speak proper English" argument. Your mother is right. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 36 minutes ago, Highland Capital said: Your mother is right. No, with the greatest respect, she is wrong. Let the kids speak their mother tongue 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzz Killington Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 The plural of you is you. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 5 hours ago, Gaz FFC said: The length of the queue. Stylish bunch in Dunfermline. Seems half the town were having a wee day out at their favourite wardrobe store Where else can you get 300 pairs of six fingered gloves for under a fiver? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 5 minutes ago, D.A.F.C said: Where else can you get 300 pairs of six fingered gloves for under a fiver? You said it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 When I was a kid and said 'youse' my parents would always retort with 'Ewes are female sheep'. Every time. To be fair to them it worked as I stopped saying it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 1 minute ago, DA Baracus said: When I was a kid and said 'youse' my parents would always retort with 'Ewes are female sheep'. Every time. To be fair to them it worked as I stopped saying it. What do you say when you want to reference female sheep now? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 (edited) Just now, Shotgun said: What do you say when you want to reference female sheep now? Wid. No, I would say 'ewes'. Edited July 1, 2020 by DA Baracus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 A second person plural is perfectly acceptable in most languages and also a useful facet of any vernacular. The fact that ‘English’ has successfully removed this from our language is another reason to vote for Independence next time round, IMO. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 What is it about "youse" that pushes buttons on quite a lot of folk?Its not the word. I say yous. It just annoys me when spelt youse. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blootoon87 Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 It's a perfectly cromulent word. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 It's a perfectly cromulent word.Dont you come in here trying to embiggen it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 9 hours ago, Shotgun said: What do you say when you want to reference female sheep now? Girlfriends. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The OP Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 35 minutes ago, ThatBoyRonaldo said: This conversation reminds me of the poster on here who hit out with 'dillion' as an example of a Scots word. Several pages of trying to work out wtf they meant later I realised they were saying 'dull yin' - as in what you might say if someone hit their head off something. Baffling. Mispelling and confusion is more common with Scots and slang words because they’re not often written down except by dafties on social media. Part of the blame for this is the types on this thread who cringe and tell their children off for using useful and innocuous words like “yous”. This leads to mass confusion over whether (for example) it’s weans, weins or wains (it’s weans). However, I’m not sure it’d ever be a struggle to work out dillion or dullion was “dull yin” as that is exactly how it is pronounced. See me after class. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herman Hessian Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 On 29/06/2020 at 18:58, MixuFruit said: Joe Rogan if his parents were insistent on a name starting with 'J', they should have gone with Josh.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moomintroll Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 22 minutes ago, Herman Hessian said: if his parents were insistent on a name starting with 'J', they should have gone with Josh.... Yoda you are. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 Grown adults who get wet over Disney+. It shows exclusively cartoons. Fucking grow up. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skerla Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 7 minutes ago, TheScarf said: Grown adults who get wet over Disney+. It shows exclusively cartoons. Fucking grow up. Does it not have all the marvel films and star wars films? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 On 02/07/2020 at 09:19, The OP said: Mispelling and confusion is more common with Scots and slang words because they’re not often written down except by dafties on social media. Part of the blame for this is the types on this thread who cringe and tell their children off for using useful and innocuous words like “yous”. This leads to mass confusion over whether (for example) it’s weans, weins or wains (it’s weans). However, I’m not sure it’d ever be a struggle to work out dillion or dullion was “dull yin” as that is exactly how it is pronounced. See me after class. Growing up I always assumed the word was dillion, it was just people's accents making it sound like a u. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 Just now, Skerla said: Does it not have all the marvel films and star wars films? And a huge National Geographic section 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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