Subject: A brief primer on Scottish slang terms
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Posted on: 2014-01-09 01:31:00 UTC
To greet - to cry, usually in a childish manner.
Bairn - infant.
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Weirdness of the Week by
on 2014-01-07 04:45:00 UTC
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Have you ever heard of Mountain Dew Cheetos?
http://consumerist.com/2014/01/06/mountain-dew-cheetos-are-now-a-reality-in-japan/ -
Re: Weirdness of the Week by
on 2014-01-11 19:59:00 UTC
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The world would be a lot less awsome (and weird) without Japan.
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I've never understood that kind of food. by
on 2014-01-11 19:09:00 UTC
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Mountain Dew Cheetos? Seriously? I've seen some weird food, but this takes the bacon-flavored cake. I… I'm at a loss for what to say.
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Um... ew? (nm) (nm) by
on 2014-01-07 16:25:00 UTC
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No. Delicious. Delicious (nm) (nm) by
on 2014-01-07 21:23:00 UTC
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Look, NM&NMs! *grabs* (nm) by
on 2014-01-08 16:26:00 UTC
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Yeah, Japan is the home of rather weird stuff. by
on 2014-01-07 10:13:00 UTC
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Like yogurt or watermelon flavoured Pepsi. No, really.
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Watermelon Pepsi sounds kind of good by
on 2014-01-08 16:25:00 UTC
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Not sure how good it would taste in practice, but...it seems like it would have possibilities.
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True. I'm afraid every country has its own soft drinks by
on 2014-01-08 17:58:00 UTC
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For example, here in Italy we have cedrata and chinotto - the first is citron flavoured while the latter uses the fruits of the myrtle-leaved orange tree, leading to a taste somehow reminishing of colas but bitter.
Both are kinda good, although I'm afraid both are rather hard to find out of Italy.
Hell, cedrata is hard to find even here... -
I have one thing to say on those bitter sodas. by
on 2014-01-08 18:28:00 UTC
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EUCH! I tried some Italian soda (proper Italian soda, mind you, not that flavored club soda we Americans make in their name) and it was bitter as all heck. Not to hate on your home tastes Sergio, but man that stuff was nasty! If other people like it, good for them, but I will be staying well away from it.
Now, Israeli soda made with honey? That's some good soda! What I had was kinda like Sprite, but much better. The Chinese stuff was not too bad either. -
I don't exactly like chinotto either, actually. by
on 2014-01-09 09:27:00 UTC
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And that's why I prefer cedrata. Its taste is a lot sweeter.
Problem is, only Tassoni, Spumador and maybe a couple more small companies make it.
(To the point that the only one making TV and radio ads, Tassoni, uses exactly the same ad since 1982! Quite jarring on television, since the video and audio quality improved a lot in the last 30 years...) -
Sodas? by
on 2014-01-08 22:58:00 UTC
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Feh. I spit upon your pathetic sodas.
Real warriors need only Irn-Bru.
It is bright orange.
No-one knows why. -
According to Wikipedia, it used to be spelled "Iron Brew". by
on 2014-01-09 00:52:00 UTC
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So maybe the bright orange color was linked to that, related to the orange colors of rust and other ferrous materials. Wait, no, that would explain the name in relation to the drink, and not why the drink itself was orange originally.
(after further searching) Oh. Synthetic colorings of "Sunset Yellow FCF" and "Ponceau 4R" combine to make the drink's orange color. Well, that was anti-climactic.
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SCIENCE! -
Well, yes, there's a chemical cause... by
on 2014-01-09 01:02:00 UTC
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But why would you put ammonium ferric chlorate (the source of the name, and the original source of the bright orange coloration) into something you would drink?
Answer: because you are not a GREETIN' WEE SPINE-VACUUM WI' THA BALLS AE A NEWBORN BAIRN! -
Newborn barn? by
on 2014-01-09 01:27:00 UTC
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I clearly have much to learn in the ways of slang. I assume "spine-vacuum" would be roughly synonymous with the term "wimp", due to the typical use of the spine metaphorically to describe one's confidence and gusto, but the word "greeting" used as a derogatory adjective and the comparison of someone to a "newborn barn" are alien to me. Maybe "bairn" would have meant a different word once translated out of Over-the-Top Scottish Accent, but I'm not sure. Elaborate?
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A brief primer on Scottish slang terms by
on 2014-01-09 01:31:00 UTC
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To greet - to cry, usually in a childish manner.
Bairn - infant. -
I imagine that would create a bit of confusion. by
on 2014-01-09 01:56:00 UTC
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I'm sort of glad that my reply to your welcome thread was never posted now, because my usual welcome-thread post title of "Greetings and bienvenue!" would have mixed poorly with the "greeting" slang term. I wouldn't want to imply you were crying childishly.
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Not really... by
on 2014-01-09 09:16:00 UTC
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Chances are you're not Scottish, and it'd have a completely different context. No confusion on my end, I assure you.
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That sounds disgusting! (nm) by
on 2014-01-07 08:30:00 UTC
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That's... um... that's something. by
on 2014-01-07 07:44:00 UTC
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Morbidly curious as to how they taste. My curiosity will be the death of me, I'm sure.
I feel they'd kill me if I tried them. -
What did I just see. (nm) by
on 2014-01-07 05:36:00 UTC
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Fascinating by
on 2014-01-07 05:25:00 UTC
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I need to get some of that stuff.
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If you do try it, be sure to report how it tastes, eh? (nm) by
on 2014-01-08 02:23:00 UTC
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