Apologies couldnāt help it. Love the site and the software engineer in me has to point out the tiniest issues for some reason. Itās a habitā¦ been trying to kick.
There are a couple of small typos at the end of the practice about page.
Stats
Our stats are basic for now but weāre working on more fun things for this area - right now itāll rack time spent practising and also the stats for items (chord changes or metronome speeds, that kind of thing).
When Iāve visited Scotland, I often struggled to understand people. One Scot told me ādonāt feel bad; we donāt speak the language so much as we chew it up and spit it out!ā Another told me (after an elderly gentleman spoke to me and I hadnāt understood a word he said) āeven we sometimes have to have a translator for some of the older brothers!ā
Iāve never been to America but have given up, on many occasions, watching an American film/series on TV due to an inability to understand any of the dialogue.
I was born and lived on and off in Scotland through my early years. I always blame my lose grip on the English language as English not being my first language ;-).
Thanks for the info though. Learn something every day.
Iāve never been to America but have given up, on many occasions, watching an American film/series on TV due to an inability to understand any of the dialogue.
Husband and I have never been to England and often times he turns on the closed captioning to figure out what is being said. I donāt have as bad a problem, probably because I grew up watching reruns of Doctor Who and Monty Python on Public television!
Dr Who and Monty Python are fairly mellow accents.
Accents, and colloquialisms are something I find quite interesting, as lots of local dialects are dying out.
I grew up around lots of different accents as the parents had a caravan site, so there are very few English speaking accents I donāt understand.
Hardest ones are things like proper Doric/Aberdonian, or there are pockets in England with very strong accents (if anybody has watched Clarksonās farm, the local helper is a good example of a very strong local accent/dialect).
I personally have quite a strong accent, so other people often struggle to understand me. I just need to remember to talk a bit slower and clearer when amongst non-locals.
On one of my Scotland trips, a brother who was from Centre-City Edinburgh was talking to me as he was talking me to a lodge meeting. I had to say āIām sorry, I canāt understand you and I feel really bad about it.ā His response: āOch, dinnae!ā