Scottish banter..

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I keep gitin telt tae speak english, an 'em dain the tellin only ken english, wit dae ye think, is it no aboot time we had oor own thread? Then I thoat, why no see the rest o the wurld speak scottish.. go on, have a laf, lemme see ye write in scots.. Go on, spell anyfin in anyway as lang is it can be read and understood by maist..?

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I keep gitin telt tae speak english, an 'em dain the tellin only ken english, wit dae ye think, is it no aboot time we had oor own thread? Then I thoat, why no see the rest o the wurld speak scottish.. go on, have a laf, lemme see ye write in scots.. Go on, spell anyfin in anyway as lang is it can be read and understood by maist..?

Fun spelling.  Do you know about IPA or APA or other phonetic alphabets? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet)

The thing is that ad-hoc transcription systems like this rely on some shared assumptions about how to map the symbols on to phonetic realizations.  If you use a standard phonetic alphabet then anyone can "listen" to your scottish banter just by reading

cheers!

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Kid ye no say that in scottish? Ma point tae dis fred, is no tae look at utha site's, bit hear yer ain vershun o the scots lingo.. I goat ma amatyur licence whin a passed ma finetic's..?

30 odd year ugo

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Kid ye no say that in scottish? Ma point tae dis fred, is no tae look at utha site's, bit hear yer ain vershun o the scots lingo.. I goat ma amatyur licence whin a passed ma finetic's..?

30 odd year ugo

It would be really fun to make the phonological rules to map the "standard" orthography of english into your spelling system which you call scottish.  For example:

"n->d in word final position"
"th->f in word initial position"
"I -> a"
"ai -> a"
etc

I guess I'm pointing out that english orthography doesn't really give you a good basis for doing phonetic writing, which is what you seem to want to do.  If you did it in IPA then I could read you loud and clear without relying on assumptions about "standard" english.

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Na, wit a want dis fred tae be aboot, is fur ye tae say wit ye goat-tae in scottish.. ma point bein tae show how even a scotsman nix doar spells different fae thi nixt.. git oan wi it, gie it a bash..

Suddenly the english are trying to get the scottish to go back to english..

Am dain it in scottish, the scottish way.

In english: Dont use programs that define the scottish language using english programming

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Na, wit a want dis fred tae be aboot, is fur ye tae say wit ye goat-tae in scottish.. ma point bein tae show how even a scotsman nix doar spells different fae thi nixt.. git oan wi it, gie it a bash..

Suddenly the english are trying to get the scottish to go back to english..

Na, aɪm nat ĩŋlɪʃ.  kæ̃nju tɛɫ maɪ næʃə̃nælɪɾi fɹə̃ maɪ ʔæksɛ̃nt?

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Dat's whit ye git for nae bein origional, need's tae come fae u, no some crap translator.. git oan wi it, jist write it as ye say it.. pit oan yer best kilted accent

[alva5763]

I remember Stanley Baxter had a show where he used Scots dialect then translated it into,posh,English.

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Ahem, one must..