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Can non-brits actually read & understand this?

>> No.14140784

IT'S SHITE BEING SCOTTISH

>> No.14140792

>>14140784
Scotland seems cool, especially Edinburgh.

>> No.14140796
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>>14140792
>le epic medieval edinbra

>> No.14140803

>>14140776
Can Americanos really not into dialects? Embarrassing.

>> No.14140804

>>14140796
Yeah, I like how it looks. It would be nice to live in a city with so many beautiful remnants of the past, giving you a sense of historical continuity.

>> No.14140809

>>14140803
they can barely speak their version of English, lad.

>> No.14140817

>>14140809
Reminder that American English is closer to Elizabethan (aka Shakespearean) English than is British English.

>> No.14140869

>>14140817
It really isn't. I know OP and the closest thing to Elizabethan English is somehow Scottish English. Either way, you can't call someone a millionaire just because they have $11 while another person has $10. It's still pretty far off and it's a meme.

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>>14140817
>we have rhotic r we like shakespeare

>> No.14140880

>>14140869
No it isn’t retard it’s welsh English. Go listen to any Shakespeare play in the original pronunciation and it always sounds welsh, like the stereotype of how pirates speak.

>> No.14140888

>>14140880
No need to insult people, lad. At least we both agree that what he said it's a meme.

>> No.14140895

>>14140888
>d-don’t insult me w-we agree about the other guy, r-right? he’s bad, the other g-guy?
Typical bully victim manoeuvre: try to find common ground with the bully by denigrating someone else. You must hold your manhood cheap, Scotsman.

>> No.14140899

>>14140880
Pirates have a Devon accent though.

>> No.14140907

>>14140895
>arguing with based trips of truth
Cringe. You're wrong, I'm right, you big RETARD kek

>> No.14140910

>>14140792
>>14140796
>>14140804
I live in Edinburgh and everybody from junkies to film geeks love trainspotting. Where I live is actually shit but uptown and all the mediaeval stuff is really nice.

>> No.14141168

Most of the phonetic words aren't too different from standard English. Read them aloud and they'll make sense. The Scottish dialect isn't too bad either, just know that 'ken' means 'know' and it's used almost everywhere in the book. Also, the Scottish-ness dies down near the end, it isn't as bad as the 1st chapter all the way through.

>> No.14141243

>>14140776
My version, the US ‘Now a major motion picture’ edition with pics of the cast on the cover had a Scots to Burger glossary in the back
I started out flipping back and forth fairly frequently at first but by the time I was halfway through I had attained fluency in Scotch.

>> No.14141361

My favorite English teacher lent me this in high school. A very fucking BASED man indeed.

>> No.14141368

>>14140776
After watching the movie me and my mate were determined to try heroin. We didn't follow through, eventually.

>> No.14141374

>>14141368
I never got how some people saw the film/book as pro drug when it’s really showing the true horror and depravity of it all

>> No.14141378

>>14141368
How did you reach that conclusion? The movie came off as pretty anti-heroin use.

>> No.14141379

>>14140776
At least I as a german could read the scots passages quite fine when I browsed through the book a while ago.

>> No.14141531

>>14141368
It's pretty good
I never injected though