OFF: Trainspotting

[Jon Jarrett]

On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, SKARSOL wrote:

> Martyn White wrote:
> >
> > >Trainspotting was released in the US in the theatres...all English..
> >
> >         Well if it's in English, it must have been dubbed.  As I
> > understand it, the UK version is in really thick genuine Scots (as
> > in the book)
> >
> > Martyn
>
> you are correct martin,and it was unchanged.it is fairly easy to
> understand the dialog though. it would still be called English by many
> here,just a vastly different dialect.  rj
>

        `Genuine' Scots is not English with a thick brogue, but Gaelic,
an entirely separate language which you are very unlikely to hear in
Irvine Welsh's Edinburgh! Therefore, the average English person should
technically be able to understand a Glaswegian, but can they? Hell no!
Yours, from south of the border by quite some way,
                                                    Jon

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