Firm seeks Glaswegian interpreter

A translation company is looking to recruit Glaswegian interpreters to help business clients who are baffled by the local dialect.

Today Translations placed an advert in The Herald newspaper on Tuesday seeking speakers of "Glaswegian English".

Successful candidates, who could earn up to £140 a day, must understand "vocabulary, accent and nuances".

The firm said that so far 30 people had applied for the positions - some of them in Glaswegian.

Today Translations spokesman Mick Thorburn said: "Over the last few months we've had clients asking us for Glaswegian translators.

"After some consideration we've decided this is a service we would like to offer.

"Usually, the role would involve translating documents but in this case it's more likely to be assisting foreign visitors to the city whose 'business English' is not good enough to understand the local dialect."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8306582.stm



SOME GLASGOW PATTER
Baltic (very cold)
Boost (head off)
Buckie (tonic wine favoured by youngsters)
Cludgie (toilet)
Eejit (idiot)
Hampden roar (score)
Hee haw (nothing)
Hen (term used to address a woman or girl)
Laldy (enthusiastic participation)
Maw (mother)
Midden (rubbish tip)
Pure (very)
Moroculous (drunk)
Messages (shopping)
Scooby (clue, rhyming slang - Scooby Doo)
Shoot the craw (leave in a hurry)
Stooky (plaster cast)
Swatch (look)
Toaty (small)
Ya dancer (fantastic)
Yersel (yourself)

Standard British is OK, but a heavy Cockney or other nonstandard English can be incomprehensible to those of us across the pond.

For instance, character Barbara Havers in the Inspector Lynley mysteries.

been doing so for years and it has helped greatly (and i'm someone who watches a LOT of brit stuff anyway)...

also, Havers is a SEX MACHINE!:loveya:

and I, too, watch a lot of this stuff.

I was 6 weeks there. I love the Scotish language, very melodic. It took me those 6 weeks to understand them, and that was when they talked English .... LOL

last night.

They skirted the line between speaking plainly for us and delving into full Glaswegian. :D :rolf:

I stayed with a couple in Glasgow. We always watched the evening news and weather report. Even at the end of my two-months stay I still couldn't understand a word that the weatherman said. It was truly amazing to know someone was speaking English and not be able to understand him.

Not a single word. LOL

was in Glasgow got stopped on the street and asked the time. Finally after asking 5 times the Laddie grabbed her arm pointed at the watch until my mate spat out "Oh time, half three"