30 Mar
2005
30 Mar
'05
9:29 a.m.
On 30/03/2005, at 6:01 PM, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
The film is set in Edinburgh, and most of the actors are from Edinburgh.
The people from the, uhm, less salubrious parts of Edinburgh (most of it,
really) have a particularly impenetrable accent.
Where I come from, up the far north-west, there isn't really an accent at
all. Everyone thinks I was either a BBC newsreader or I went to a posh
school (I did neither).
The bit in the club where it was subtitles was because they were almost
inaudible over the music *and* talking in a heavy dialect.
Gordon.
Doubtless from the Scots word
"cludgie", meaning outside toilet.
Since we don't have those any more, it refers to any rather squalid
toilet - think about the bookmaker scene in Trainspotting.
You mean you actually understand the dialog in Trainspotting - my
housekeeper who originally comes from Glasgow admits she can't
understand much of the dialog :-)