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Townie already means something else though. It's what people from the country (like Bexy :razz: ) call people from the city. Same as pikey already means Gipsy, not ned.
Seriously, think up your own words :razz:
I speak with a northern accent, funnily enough because I am northern. However this in no way makes me illiterate or poor. I’m sure that the same can be said of most accents for example when southerners say "bas" instead of bus but because there southerners they aren’t seen as "poor illiterate working class" they are seen as posh!!!
Just because I don’t always stick to received pronunciation it does not make me stupid or illiterate or most of all poor (e.g. Cilla Black living in that cardboard box in Liverpool) I happen to be proud of where I come from and cant believe that people judge others class, intelligence and wealth from the way they pronounce a word! I find it all very sad.
i dress like a skater usually, so define a townie for me :eek2:
wot do u call 'rude boys' where u live kiezo?
Aberdonian is where it's at, folks.
"Fit like iday, ma loon? Fars yer quine the nicht?"
:thumb:
Did I say accent?
I speak with a Glasgow accent (funnily enough) but I don't run around saying "cannae", "dinnae", "windae", "dae", "whit" etc.
Uhh... that's the point, it's only Northerners that seem to do it even if they aren't poor/illiterate.
Thinking about it, it's not just people from Glasgow/Liverpool/etc., that seem to try and distance themselves from this, people all over the world do. Smart, educated black people don't run about shouting "YO WUD TO THA MUMMY FUCKA!". Educated Americans (LOL!) don't run about shouting "YEEHAW! Boy howdy, Pilgrim!".
See what I'm getting at?
I've never got it when people say they're proud of where they're from. Fair enough if you're proud of your area for a particular acheivement or whatever, but otherwise it's just like saying you're proud 'cause you have brown hair.
First impressions, innit. You don't picture a Glasgow ned, sporting a fine looking Burberry tracksuit and baseball cap, talking in Glasgow slang as having class, do you? Just as you don't picture intelligent or educated people talking in slang either.
Anyone pictured here.
I told you already - neds :razz:
I'd rather have an accent that people can understand rather than a jumbled mess of noise that makes about a much sense as static.:p
Oh, the irony.
Did you read any of what I just said?
It's quite common. Does anyone notice that some Glaswegians hate it when anyone does well for themselves? It's like "As long as we're all daft, it's OK"
And I don't speak like a "Ned". Sure I'll sometimes slip in a few "common Glaswegian" words but I do speak properly. I hate the accent sometimes though.
ned = non-educated delinquent.
it's not illiteracy, it's dialect. speech has nothing to do with literacy.
Oh and i've pick up words from you lot, like ned and chav, no one round here knows what they are and i'm having to explain myself:(
It's not really. Like I said, most people with a decent education etc. try and distance themselves from talking that way.
The word was around first, and the acronym was made up later to fit it.
il·lit·er·a·cy
n. pl. il·lit·er·a·cies
An error, as in writing or speech, made by or thought to be characteristic of one who is illiterate.
not in the sense you were using it.
'an illiteracy' or 'several illiteracies' means that.
if someone is showing their illiteracy, as you stated it (such as a condition), unless they are actually in the act of displaying a single illiteracy (as per the quote) 'showing their illiteracy' means:
1. The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; specifically, inability to read and write.
it's best not to use long words unless you understand the context they belong in.
That is great. I know a guy named Ned and I'm going to call him that.
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you know a guy called ned and you haven't thought of anything funnier to call him?
i'm not creative like that. got any ideas? by the way... what would that name be short for... like the original birth name?
What part of Glasgow are you from? There seems to be a mix here. Most speak nicely but there are a fair few neds and "common folk" I guess they'd be called who still talk like that. The way in which I meant it's quite common is the dialect. "Ned Speak" is really different. They have their own twang. Around here and at school anyway. Though my school does serve Possil or the "Posso Fleeto" as they like to be called
like where they came from ...even love it but ...proud?
how can you be be proud of which field you were born in ...you did sod all to achieve this feat.
'my corner of the field is so much better than your corner' ...
Uh, it was perfectly fine the way I used it. OK, technically it wasn't used properly, but neither is a whole load of other shit I come out with; "made of win" etc.
Geddit?
Just outside, in Bishopbriggs.
They may have their own 'twang', but it's still pretty similar, and most people with any sense tries to distance themselves from it :razz:
Hahaha. Tweet tweet Posso Fleet!
Man I hate those guys.
I wish more people understood this :razz: