You know your accent is thick when

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Youtube automatically subtitles you in Dutch (turn on captions). I especially liked the "chinchilla die crisis". Now I can't stop wondering what a chinchilla die crisis would be like.

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[real-marsel.livejournal.com]

I understand several words.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

"Chinchilla die crisis"?  Is something happening to the chinchilla population? 

Wasn't quite what I got from what was actually said.  Near as I could understand the kid was talking about his experience in a Scottish gang.  And something about McDonald's. .

Athena

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The sentence about McDonalds was "One of my pals were fighting in McDonald's".

At some point the subtitles had "chinchilla die crisis" and it just got me thinking what would a Glaswegian chinchilla die crisis be like, ha ha.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Vampire bat.  I'll call him Renfield. That might be what would happen to chinchillas in Glasgow. 

Seems logical enough to have a vampire bat named Renfield. 

Although Stoker was Irish not Scottish. 

Athena

[topum.livejournal.com]

Sounds cool.

[asher63.livejournal.com]

[topum.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, this is cool.

[darkoshi]

It really does sound sort of like Dutch. YouTube even has an option in the settings, for translating the "Dutch" back to English. The translation makes no sense, of course, and still mentions a chinchilla crisis.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

Too hard. After repeating, some phrases are getting clearer. But not that mysterious chinchilla's (midlife?) crysis. Poor chinchilla...

And I think, it's rather a subcultural thing than a national one. I cannot say that I understand my native-speaking gang teenagers better...

[topum.livejournal.com]

Why don't you understand them, they use slang that do not understand?
Here it is mostly about the accent not slang I think.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Oh I did not try translating it back to English. Thanks.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

Slang partially, yes. But mostly - because of a very bizarre pronunciation. Russian young gangsters or just teenagers from a troubled families speak exactly like this young man, something like quick one-syllable barking: "eh-uh-ah-bum-bdang".

I understand Scottish accent well enough, and even like it in movies, if there are more or less educated people who talk not too quickly. But in your video I hardly recognize a half of the words...

What about slang, Russian crimilal world has its slang deeply developed, it's almost a language: adult people can talk very clearly, and you still don't understand a word.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Interesting.
This boy has a Glaswegian accent.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

It's the combination of the accent with the rather noisy background soundtrack, I think. I understood it on the second listen, although I missed some words the first time, despite not being Scottish, he just seems to be accented rather than actually speaking dialect. It probably helps if you know what 'neds' are!

Poor kid, sounds like he's come from a pretty tough place and I suppose the 'near incomprehensible' voice will not make it that much easier for him to find another path. :-/

I occasionally meet people down here in the Westcountry whose dialect is so strong that I can't work out what they are saying even though I grew up here. Actually, maybe you would like some of that for contrast: here are the wonderful April and June (though I have met people with stronger accents!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwFeZZcCdLA

The autotranslate knows they are speaking English but it's attempt to caption them is soooooo wrong!

[topum.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you, I am now a fan of April and June, they are awesome and much easier for me to understand then the Glaswegian lad.