Now that's what I call precisioneering

[230RN]

Two smokestacks imploding simultaneously and destroying each other

BLURBS AND DISCUSSION WITH  HEAVY SCOTTISH BROGUE

https://youtu.be/hSZEIZ9eFtY (2:59)


3 - 2 - 1 ACTUAL COUNTDOWN STARTS AT 1:25

[Hawkmoon]

Fairly spectacular demo, but I think I only understood about 20 percent of the interviews. My grandfather was of Sctottish ancestry and he could put on a rather heavy accent on demand, but nothing like most of those folks.

Which reminds me of the summer after my freshman year in college. I took a summer job as a counselor for a boys camp in Maine. The assistant director had two young children, so he and his wife brought along a very attractive Scottish girl to act as nanny so they could focus on the camp. I don't think I understood a single word she said over the entire course of the summer.

[230RN]

"...but I think I only understood about 20 percent of the interviews..."

Warned you.  That's why I gave the time for the countdown, so if ou wanted to, you could skip to that directly.

I did make out that a "civilian" was chosen by lottery to fire the charges.

I also have trouble with strong awe-stray-llian accents.

[Scout26]

He's speaking English.  Really, he is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsUvcjk8J5c

[MechAg94]

Nice.  I think I got most of what the people were saying, but I had to concentrate.  A couple of them had pretty thick accents that I understood hardly at all. 

[Hawkmoon]

He's speaking English.  Really, he is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsUvcjk8J5c

I'll take your word for it ...

[sumpnz]

Which reminds me of the summer after my freshman year in college. I took a summer job as a counselor for a boys camp in Maine. The assistant director had two young children, so he and his wife brought along a very attractive Scottish girl to act as nanny so they could focus on the camp. I don't think I understood a single word she said over the entire course of the summer.

Methinks the accent was immaterial to your comprehension.

[makattak]

The name of the company is "BAM"

Just awesome.

[Perd Hapley]

Most of them spoke plainly enough. Even the bloke in the blue jacket managed to use a few words of English. 

[230RN]

Of course, to them, we must have terrible accents.  "Dinna th' 'Mericans speak the King's Scottish?"

Yeah, that "BAM" company name got my attention, too.
 
The hand-waver (0:55) was funny.  If he talked a little louder he'd'a been able to take off and fly away.

[Perd Hapley]

Of course, to them, we must have terrible accents.  "Dinna th' 'Mericans speak the King's Scottish?"

I don't know. Before the Brits lost their empire, and got all insecure, they used to say Americans were better at English than the English.

[makattak]

I don't know. Before the Brits lost their empire, and got all insecure, they used to say Americans were better at English than the English.

Americans (colonists) were separated from most other linguistic influences for a significant period of time, make American English much closer to Shakespearean English than Modern Englander English.

I'm always amused by the knowledge that the Southern dialect is probably the closest to the way Shakespeare was originally voiced.

(My guess is that it's closest the "upper class" Southern dialect, though.)