I think at the end she says "Strong Bad, Strong Bad" and it cracked me up.

I grew up in London and I remember once as a teenager my friend and I were on a double decker and we heard what we thought were Germans behind us. It was awhile before we realized they were speaking English all along and it was real strong Scottish.


/csb

Jeremy Kyle is chav-bating coont*
This is all you need to know.

*yes, you can replace "oo" with "u"

I didn't read the description on the page and made it all the way to the end before I realized they WERE speaking English.

The husband appears to understand her, and that's what counts.

i have a friend from ireland. i cant understand a farking thing he says on the phone. in person is fine, but on the phone its an undecipherable barrage of accent.

Gilligann: A friend of mine recently came by and brought a friend of his from Tennessee. He kept saying he had to make a funkle. Nobody knew what they hell he was talking about. We all just sat there and nodding our heads and smiling.

Turned out he wanted to make a phone call. We just sat there nodding our heads, smiling like idiots as he continuously asked if he could use my phone.

Without hearing aids, this is what my life is like all the time.

Fookin' approoves, ye doss coont!

I think I heard her say "Lassie" and "Scumbag" and I think that's pretty much all you need to know.

"N****er got the Polish automatic"?

When one's speech gets to that point, I wonder if they're really speaking the language they're said to be speaking or if they're speaking another language.

I thought I was pretty good at deciphering Brits, even Scots, but some of this just flew right past me. I could sort out that she thought he was cheating on her. That's about it.

Good dags. D'ya like dags?

buckler: I can understand a Scots dialect reasonably well, but I once knew a guy from Yorkshire, and I never could understand a goddamned thing that guy ever said.

But did he always have some mighty fine wine?

Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf: When one's speech gets to that point, I wonder if they're really speaking the language they're said to be speaking or if they're speaking another language.

Kind of like observing speciation happening in the wild, isn't it?

I'd say he got it exactly right.

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MooseUpNorth: Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf: When one's speech gets to that point, I wonder if they're really speaking the language they're said to be speaking or if they're speaking another language.

Kind of like observing speciation happening in the wild, isn't it?

Good point, I hadn't thought of that comparison. I think the line on what separates species is the ability to crossbreed. For example, canis lantris and canis rufus can crossbreed. But neither can crossbreed with canis vulpis. So I suppose it could be said that a dialect becomes another language when it gets to the point that you can't understand what the other person is saying, even if the other person's speech still has elements that resemble your speech.

That's a good point too. I now remember someone telling me that Portuguese sounds like "badly spoken Spanish"