• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    11 months ago

    I don’t think anything in @edinbruh@feddit.it’s comment is particularly Celtic/Gaelic-inspired.

    Banging is slang for hot. Pal means friend. Shag means have sex with. They’re all fairly common slang in the English language even outside of Scotland. Mostly in England, but elsewhere in the Commonwealth most people would be familiar with the terms, even if it wouldn’t be the first slang term they themselves would use.

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        11 months ago

        Ah sorry. I misread and thought you were replying to the parent comment of that comment.

        Anyway, I’ll admit I’m struggling with that one too. My best take:

        Maybes naw: I think this is literally “maybe no”, possibly used equivalently to the Aussie “nah yeah” (meaning “yes”)?

        ye ken: you know

        fit like: quite hot

        spot on: exactly

        min: ???

        But I don’t really see how they fit together.

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          11 months ago

          You’re almost there - “fit like” is an expression particularly unique to the north east of Scotland, and it’s super versatile. On it’s own, it’ll mean “what’s happening” or “how’s it going?” - then it can be used in various contexts like “fit like i day” as in “how are you today?”, or in this case “you ken fit like”, “you know how it is” or “you know the score”.

          “Maybes naw” is pretty much spot on though, unless used in the context “maybes aye, maybes naw” where it’s less of an unsure expression, and more of a deliberate evasion of the question.

          e: “min” is just a local substitute for “man”, as in “hey man” (“alright min”) or “nice job, man” (“quality, min”)

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          11 months ago

          It seems to me that “fit like” means “kinda correct”

          Beats me to “min”, though