EnglishinScotland Posted October 19, 2007 Report Share Posted October 19, 2007 Based on visits there, spells living there, those you've met, TV etc.What are the main differences between Scots and the English?Please be as frank as you like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pleepsie Posted October 19, 2007 Report Share Posted October 19, 2007 The 'differences' of the locals in Shetland is no different to the behaviour of any English or Scottish village or small town. The locals are a clannish bunch from one end of this sceptered isle to the other. In Shetland it just happens that nearly everyone a local meets is related to them by blood or marriage (often going back generations), and this makes for a family feel to the island (not so good when bad behaviour is reported back to parents! ). I can't comment on Scotland but should imagine that a similar thread runs through it. I know from personal experience that the same applies to England, there they say you have to live in a village for 25 years to stop being a stranger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnglishinScotland Posted October 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2007 http://www.americancivilrightsreview.com/dv1ukwalesscotland1.html What about the view of us as arrogant?That there's lack of pride or sense of respect in England?That we are, to quote one scotsman I knew of, 'insouciant'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepshagger Posted October 19, 2007 Report Share Posted October 19, 2007 Not a very good view from up here, get a lovely view of Fair Isle on a fine day Its almost English After reading your post then the faster England casts Scotland off the better, as long as you seperate us from the Scots first Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trout Posted October 19, 2007 Report Share Posted October 19, 2007 human beings .. like everyone else Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pooks Posted October 19, 2007 Report Share Posted October 19, 2007 How dare you call me a human being? What gives you the right to tell me what I am? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thekid Posted October 19, 2007 Report Share Posted October 19, 2007 They have peerier pillies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnglishinScotland Posted October 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2007 They have peerier pillies. Oh--I have no idea what you mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyumpi Posted October 19, 2007 Report Share Posted October 19, 2007 They have peerier pillies. Oh--I have no idea what you mean. Perhaps the poster has conducted extensive experiments in this region and can speak with so great experience on the subject. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humptygrumpty Posted October 20, 2007 Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 ^ ROFL. [mod]Quote-fest removed[/mod] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnglishinScotland Posted October 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 ^ I think I'm starting to get the idea. [mod]Quote-fest removed[/mod] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAStewart Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 English are joost normal people. But it is fun to have a bit of inter-nation rivarly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnglishinScotland Posted October 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 English are joost normal people. But it is fun to have a bit of inter-nation rivarly You don't think they are more ill-mannered than Scots? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jps Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 English are joost normal people. But it is fun to have a bit of inter-nation rivarly You don't think they are more ill-mannered than Scots? Not more ill mannered than Scots but maybe more ill mannered than most Shetlanders I have met. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjool Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 Some English are more ill-mannered than some Scots; this much is true. But I've met some very rude Scots, and some very polite English folks. Bear in mind that manners, being a social thing, are very dependent on the culture you come from. As I learned last night, the Norwegians have no word for 'please', for example. This doesn't make them a rude people. The French are considered to a generally rude nation by the British, but they just have different conventions to which they adhere. I'm sure they could consider us rude since we don't have their equivalent of the context sensitive pronouns 'tu' and 'vous'; they consider these necessary for correct formal speaking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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