language translator

[sarabande]

If, as a refugee from Another Place, I wish to post on here, can anyone recommend a site which I can use to change English to Caledonian / Native Blue Moment Patois, please? (assuming that I speak English, of course.)

"Jings, yon moderator lassie wuz a wee bit crankie" was the best that Macbabelfish could come up with.

[Cliff]

aye, whitswrangwiyonainyhow?

[claymore]

My Dear Chap
The finest Queen's English is spoken on this forum at all times - all one has to do is register as a forum user and the cunning webcraft deciphering tool is automatically triggered
To straying scufflebummers and especially daft feckin quasi moderators - the language thing is just a tool to dissuade them from lingering.
Felicitations, welcome and may your airse always point south.

Actually I've overstepped the mark here - it is the role of those higher and mightier than I to extend welcomes - I apologise to them and naturally withdraw my felicitations

[jim.r]

Och , they're daeing a grand job of pouring ile oan troubled watters .. NOT;-)

[Silkie]

"Jings, yon moderator lassie wuz a wee bit crankie"

As you have obviously realised, using jings, crivvens or help ma boab in every sentence along with a little creative spelling is all that is required to give that authentic pidgin Scots feel. When the occasion warrants, they can all be used together.

Jings, crivvens, help ma boab! Whit a stooshie!

[bilbo]

It's nae problemo,


Jist buy yersel' a presentation copy o' ra 'Compendium Edition O' Ra Broons' an' yer sortit', but........

Wee Bachle

[Nick]

Try this:

http://www.whoohoo.co.uk/scottish-translator.asp

or browse the Scottish Vernacular Dictionary

[Nick]

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So what was it took you to Benbecula, and was your entire Hebridean experience so bleak?

Some of our regulars have been there and discovered a tropical paradise . . .

[Telo]

rickety table in a draughty inadequately heated room, with red vinyl benches along the wall, flinching from the regular fighting breaking out amongst the drunken locals at the bar, then struggling out into the gale and dreich for a 25 mile drive back to the swaying and rattling caravan in a field, which the sheep scratch against all night.

Ah yes now that sounds chust fine. So you'll have enjoyed yourself and be able to tell your good friends and neighbours what a wonderful time you had.

Happy days, man, happy days...

[Nick]

Chakalo:

A long winded first post

Not at all - a very atmospheric and entertaining first post - welcome aboard Chakalo.

It looks like you are a strong contender for this year's Avatar Art prize as well . . .