When I moved I didn't speak English at all really so I've kinda just picked up scottish English as I've went. To start off with it was really hard but once u know the sayings and how to pronounce stuff, it gets a lot easier
I'm not sure about the country as a whole but in my area we have a lot of Romanians and Bulgarians and they all live and work on the farms around here, so I feel like because I don't work on a farm they don't see me as an immigrant like they see them, y'know?
I have a friend from croatia who is in the same boat here in my country as well. Go figure. I think this shows how the fear for the immigrant is just the good old fear of the different from us, suddenly when the immigrant is not a generic someone else but someone you know, it's not really an immigrant anymore.
I think both are ultimately flawed. I think u need a mix of both, regulated capitalism with some socialist policies in things like education and healthcare
That's not really a mix of both, but just capitalism with welfare. Something being capitalist or socialist is determined by what is principal in the mode of production, and which class is in control of the state.
Native spoken Gaelic in the modern day is secluded to a small amount of tiny villages way the fuck up north. In the central belt you only see it written underneath the english name of a train station or on emergency service vehicles. In the Highland council area none of the larger towns will have more than a few native speakers but you'll see it written more places as an alternative
42 Comments
roadrunner_ex@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 126d
Do you like Pokemon or Digimon more? Who's your favourite 'mon?
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 126d
How bad is Scottish English in reality?
Did you understand anything at all when first moving there?
LithuanianSubmissive@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 126d
When I moved I didn't speak English at all really so I've kinda just picked up scottish English as I've went. To start off with it was really hard but once u know the sayings and how to pronounce stuff, it gets a lot easier
Billy_fuccboi@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 126d
Anything dirty or clean?
LithuanianSubmissive@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 126d
Yep
ScytheDraven47@piefed.zip · 6 pts · 126d
What do you for work, if you can say?
LithuanianSubmissive@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 126d
I'm a hospitality manager
ScytheDraven47@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 126d
Oh nice! Like a hotel or restaurant or something?
Follow-up: if you weren't at work, what would you be doing?
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 6 pts · 126d
is your second toe longer than the big toe next to it ?
LithuanianSubmissive@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
No
neo2478@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 126d
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 126d
I hear that's good for balance, but I don't have it either and I do fine on a rope
SleepingInTraffic@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 126d
LithuanianSubmissive@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
In what context? And thank you
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu · 5 pts · 126d
How are you seen by people in Scotland, as a Lithuanian and an immigrant?
LithuanianSubmissive@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 126d
I'm not sure about the country as a whole but in my area we have a lot of Romanians and Bulgarians and they all live and work on the farms around here, so I feel like because I don't work on a farm they don't see me as an immigrant like they see them, y'know?
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu · 4 pts · 126d
Yes i see it. You are a different kind of immigrant, probably less so because that stigma is attached to the farms and not your profession....
LithuanianSubmissive@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 126d
Exactly. It's strange but it is what it is. I know people who love me and my company and voted for Brexit because they didn't see me an an immigrant
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu · 2 pts · 126d
I have a friend from croatia who is in the same boat here in my country as well. Go figure. I think this shows how the fear for the immigrant is just the good old fear of the different from us, suddenly when the immigrant is not a generic someone else but someone you know, it's not really an immigrant anymore.
solidheron@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 125d
Did you consider finding an ask me anything community in lemmy to make an AMA
sneezycat@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 126d
Why did you move out of Lithuania? And why Scotland?
LithuanianSubmissive@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 126d
I moved when I was 14. My mum got a job on a farm here so I moved with her
ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 126d
What do you think of socialism vs capitalism?
LithuanianSubmissive@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 126d
I think both are ultimately flawed. I think u need a mix of both, regulated capitalism with some socialist policies in things like education and healthcare
ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 126d
What are your thoughts on zionism?
LithuanianSubmissive@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 126d
I think it's a cancer
ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 126d
❤️
Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 125d
That's not really a mix of both, but just capitalism with welfare. Something being capitalist or socialist is determined by what is principal in the mode of production, and which class is in control of the state.
sunbeam60@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 125d
Ah yes. A point about socialism within 2 comments. You know you’re on Lemmy when…
Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 125d
I didn't make the top-level comment 🤷
sunbeam60@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 125d
No no, I know. I was just laughing at our reverse-Godwin law.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 126d
What's the last live music/theater/sports/etc event you attended? (don't need much details no need to dox yourself)
What's the longest you've stayed awake in a single stretch?
What's the weirdest/rarest animal you've seen?
Have you ever seen the innkeepers?
MimicJar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 126d
What do you own that is dirty and what are your plans to make it clean?
lorty@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 126d
What do you think is different between Scottish people and Lithuanians? If anything at all
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 2 pts · 125d
Do you have a scottish accentnwhen speaking english? Does gaelic come into play at all during any conversations?
LithuanianSubmissive@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 125d
I don't but I can put one in pretty well and I've never heard anyone in person speak Gaelic and I've been here 12 years
operationalHazard@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 125d
Native spoken Gaelic in the modern day is secluded to a small amount of tiny villages way the fuck up north. In the central belt you only see it written underneath the english name of a train station or on emergency service vehicles. In the Highland council area none of the larger towns will have more than a few native speakers but you'll see it written more places as an alternative
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 126d
What do you do for work to make you so farken bored?
LithuanianSubmissive@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
I'm a hospitality manager but today I'm doing a lot of admin stuff
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 126d
Where are your minions to delegate this menial work too?
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 125d
Deep-fried Mars Bar or Deep-fried Kebab?
LithuanianSubmissive@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 125d
Never heard of a deep fried kebab so mars bars
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 125d
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 125d
why would you chose Scotland ?