They could use Glaswegian which is virtually unintelligible to outsiders, speaking as a Greenockian.Gaelic is really unlikely to be used, only the Seaforth's and Cameron Highlanders would have any meaningful number of Gaelic speaking recruits and even then the vast majority would be monolingual English (well sort of) speakers. Gaelic by this point was really confined to the islands and some small communities on the West Coast.
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I didn't know that the Hairy Legged Irish were recruited from such a small area. Glasgow?Gaelic is really unlikely to be used, only the Seaforth's and Cameron Highlanders would have any meaningful number of Gaelic speaking recruits and even then the vast majority would be monolingual English (well sort of) speakers. Gaelic by this point was really confined to the islands and some small communities on the West Coast.
And looking at where the Gordons covered, I'm reminded about a certain McAuslan...
It may be a small area but there's a lot of Hell's Last Issue to recruit.
If you want truly unintelligible you need to bring in the Tyneside Scottish.
I spent a summer working in Newcastle and had to resort to writing in order to communicate.
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Oi! I resemble that remark.
I live right beside the Barracks, former Depot of the HLI, now the Wyndford. Each of the blocks of flats have the story of a VC winner at the entrance way.
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9th Highland Division's 26th Infantry brigade is 5th and 7th Seaforth Highlanders, and 5th Cameron Highlanders. Shouldn't be a problem.
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How many liaison officers would be needed for a corps consisting of SH and CH, Aussies, London regiments (esp. Cockney battalions) and Kings African Rifles? And for the Germans, how many different English speaking linguists be needed?
Has it occurred to anyone that OTL the 5th Battalion of the Border Regiment would be part of the 6th Infantry Division?
No one born outside the county can possibly understand a Cumbrian Accent.
(Its often considered to have crossed the line into dialect - especially as most Cumbrians appear to be perfectly capable of not using it.)
No one born outside the county can possibly understand a Cumbrian Accent.
(Its often considered to have crossed the line into dialect - especially as most Cumbrians appear to be perfectly capable of not using it.)
There is a clip around of Karen Gillan doing publicity for Jumanji. She and some other cast members were asked to identify Australian slang. A notoriously difficult task.
She did by far the best. Largely because of the common roots of Scottish and Australian slang.
Australian manages its incomprehensibility through multiply overloaded ironisation. You’d call your best mate something, and you’d call a stranger you disliked mate. But someone you genuinely disliked you’d wait forty minutes until they couldn’t remember you and king hit them from behind in a location without video cameras. And you’d use both words in all three cases using inflection or ironically used anti-inflection in context.
Back in the 1930s/40s there were similar inflective rules around irony combined with a dense ridiculous set of stereotyped metaphors, rhyming slangs and the like.
the problem is anyone who could do cockney could break Australian open as they used a lot of the same examples rules and systems.
Back in the 1930s/40s there were similar inflective rules around irony combined with a dense ridiculous set of stereotyped metaphors, rhyming slangs and the like.
the problem is anyone who could do cockney could break Australian open as they used a lot of the same examples rules and systems.
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My father used to work with a couple of Scottish guys, one of whom was from Aberdeen, and the only person in the entire company who could understand him (and thus, could translate for him) was a Glaswegian.
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