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You need to 'read' it in a Scottish accent.Originally posted by SimonMac View PostTook me a secondComment
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I see what you mean, now that I try to read it back with an English accent.Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
I had similar trouble in a meeting with a company that chartered yachts one time. They said they couldn't take any more than X many passengers, or they'd technically be acting as a "ferry", and would need special licences and insurance for that. I said "so, to summarise, you don't believe in ferries*?", which I realised from the blank looks of the Englishman I was speaking to did not compute in his accent, even though I'd said it in mine.
* fairiesComment
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Ah yes, I got the rest of it but the Scottish* accent helped with theOriginally posted by mudskipper View Post
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no change there then.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Nope, even trying with a Scottish accent: Sooty plank baby like princess!“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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Cheers, now I get itOriginally posted by OwlHoot View Post
wood cry
a fairy
More than that I dare not go
“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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I took it as 'girl' rather than fairy.Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post wood cry
a fairy
More than that I dare not go
No idea about sooty though - what could it possibly mean?
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