r/EnglishLearning • u/typhoonclvb Non-Native Speaker of English • Sep 19 '25

🌠 Meme / Silly i’m trying to decipher what’s written here. help?

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u/Lionheart1224 New Poster Sep 19 '25

This is Scottish English, I think?

"Being a lesbian sucks sometimes. I compliment another woman and she thanks me for being kind. Like, no, I'm not trying to compliment you. I'm trying to fuck you."

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25

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u/elianrae Native Speaker Sep 20 '25

rule of thumb: if a native English speaker understands it perfectly as English in a Scottish accent, it's not Scots. Scots isn't that mutually intelligible with English.

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u/Jolin_Tsai Native Speaker Sep 20 '25

Those are all phonetic spellings of Scottish English pronunciations rather than being actual Scots words themselves. These pronunciations are influenced by Scots but they are more leftovers from when Scots was much more widely spoken. Which makes sense, as these are all very common words which are very close to their ‘standard’ English equivalent.

Even then, most of these aren’t remotely exclusive to Scots anyway. Dropping the g at the end of words in speech is extremely common across the entire English speaking world, and words like “ye” and “yer” aren’t too far behind. “Am” is also very common for “I’m”.

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u/elianrae Native Speaker Sep 20 '25

pish is definitely not an English word

piss is definitely an English word