What the hell are they saying?

[Deadstar]

Ha, sorry nfe wasn't actually sure of the origin of the word teuchter tbh, always seems to get used as an interpretation
of someone as being uncouth - thought it may have been another older word to describe neds

[Elliot]

Here's some Schwyzerdütsch with German subtitles to make it easy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrH5NMg_xFQ&feature=relmfu

[clyde billt]

Teuchtar is used to describe a sort of highland country bumpkin type. A bit like colchie (sp?) from southern Ireland.

nfe what friends would be hugely offended?
Your ned friends or your teuchter friends?

[dave_mc]

^ culchie, i think? at least that's what we call it up here

Here's some Schwyzerdütsch with German subtitles to make it easy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrH5NMg_xFQ&feature=relmfu

would be even easier with english subtitles :lol:

but yeah i mean that's sorta what i was saying... it still sounds (at least in parts) more or less like german (though the accent is very different). i guess it's one of those ones where it's maybe a little more than a dialect but a little less than a language. or maybe i'm just rambling now.

[Elliot]

I'd say that was a pretty insightful distinction, Dave, not rambling at all.

[nfe]

Teuchtar is used to describe a sort of highland country bumpkin type. A bit like colchie (sp?) from southern Ireland.

nfe what friends would be hugely offended?
Your ned friends or your teuchter friends?

Essentially it's used by Glaswegians and folk from Edinburgh to mean anyone from a (perceived) rural area, but principally highlanders yeah, especially with regards to accent.

I have no friends that are neds. Mind you, I don't imagine many folks have friends that they consider to be neds. My pals from Inverness and round about would rather take exception to their accent being taken as synonymous to a forced one used by bams. Not that they'd encounter it often, I've never, ever heard someone use teuchter in that way until this thread.

[dave_mc]

I'd say that was a pretty insightful distinction, Dave, not rambling at all.

aw thanks :)