Silly Jilly ♣
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It's really great when people realise that the Glaswegian accent is NOT the typical Scottish accent!! As someone who knows Glasgow quite well and have been there gazillions of times, there are actually different forms of the Glasgow accent. It depends on different things.....the most impenetrable of the forms of Glaswegian for non-Scots (and a fair few Scots themselves!) is from older people. It also depends on social factors, especially with regard to education and background and all that stuff.
When I go clubbing in Glasgow (it has a fantastic social scene) I don't have any fash (sorry...trouble) from people of my own age as a general rule. The funny thing is, they usually know straight away that I come from Edinburgh as soon as I open my gob. :-)
When many call centres were based in Glasgow prior to transfer abroad, it caused no end of bother for callers from England (and Wales presumably) and the organisations were constantly receiving complaints about callers not being able to understand the Glaswegian operators. Now they get similar calls about not being able to understand Asians! That's life.
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Free David Whitelaw
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We're not really angry. Who asks such a ******** question. I mean I'm not the ****** angry *****sort. But in answer to your ******* question. @#!!** #'@][+* all the #~/?*!!^?* time we @#XX$ answer @##*%X.
Hope that helps clear things up. |
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Cotton headed ninny muggins
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I don't really agree with that. I don't think we sound angry and if we do, it's a minority of people. Although, being from Glasgow i maybe dont hear what you do. It is most likely to be a sociolinguistic thing as suggested above. By dropping /t/'s in words and replacing with glottal stops and pronunciation of words such as 'wit' for 'what' can sound a bit agressive dependant on other factors such as tone etc |
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mark
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It's just an accent. It's no different to people from Birmingham sounding as though they are a bit 'slow', but they aren't.... |
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Bel
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It's just the way they talk, they always speak very quickly and abruptly. I'm from the east part of Scotland and I sometimes have trouble understanding what my bf (from Glasgow) is saying! lol |
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♥ caroline ♥
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We don't always sound angry! It's just the dialect of the Glaswegian accent which sometimes sounds a bit abrupt. The use of slang words or 'patter' doesn't help either I suppose! If I wasn't from Glasgow, I would probably think we all sounded harsh and angry too. |
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jackie m
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I don't sound angry? its our accent and there is different ones throughout Scotland, We are nice friendly people. In fact I think most of Glasgow people have Asian or African accents????? |
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xxPvc_Princessxx
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they have a kinda butch accent but the guys sound pretty nice :) |
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Mrs James Lafferty x
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Its just because we have a really strong accent that many have trouble understanding. We aren't actually angry. |
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Peter O
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i don't know if they are angry OR not cant understand anyway |
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