How to Get the Truth out of Any Man- Kevin Bridges | A Whole Different Story | Universal Comedy 1740pm 25.3.22 wise words, mate... the masses are a jealous bunch and no mistake...

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Kevin's been 📖studying languages with Rosseta stone he can already translate " aye" to yes. Those who can't understand him should do the same it's really not just that difficult it's not like he's talking Mandarin Chinese

It's not that Kevin is "educated" he's intelligent there's a difference look at parliament they're all "educated" but you'd find more intelligence in a petri dish

@@michaelharrison3602 You know what, you are right. That being said, I think my point still stands that there's a stereotype of ordinary Glaswegian folk not being well-read, intelligent and "well-educated", that the state of being Glaswegian and being "well-educated" can't occupy the same person. That is, somehow you can be upper-class English, well-educated and yet be dumber than soup, but being working/lower-class Scottish and well-educated is considered such an oxymoron that it's a miracle if you're intelligent and proving the rule if you're as smart as a Tory MP. Like, being working or lower-class can impact your access to good education and being Scottish means the language you're educated in is very likely not even the same one you speak at home, but that doesn't mean you can't be well-educated or intelligent -- your obstacle to it is just higher.

@@rachelfox8108 I think the stereotype applies to all working class people who don't have a university education. I sat in my local boozer last night discussing the beliefs of zoroasterism With a scaffolder. Your right about people regarding Glaswegians being uneducated but what can you do? Even Kevin seems to think that everyone in South East England either talks like Sebastian or Danny Dyer but so what it's only comedy

Intelligence and education don’t necessarily go together. Politicians are a great example of that. Think you’d have to go a long way to beat Americans for being both uneducated as well as unintelligent though😂

I was breaking my neck for a shite milady and she was taking fucking ages i was touching cloth milady. Seems like reasonable mitigation to me

Kevin's English is actually better than many English University graduates

@@michaelharrison3602 im from California, his accent is a little hard for me to understand

@@MichelOcampo cool that's understandable you're in a different country, you also have various accents. The blue collar son of a louisiana Farmer probably talks different to the Harvard educated child of a Manhattan stock broker. But you'd still understand each other. I can't get my head around somebody failing to understand somebody from a few miles up the road because they don't go to the same school .

Even Scott's people don't know who are on their banknotes

@@michaelharrison3602 Scots. 🤦‍♂️

Subtitles ?

Some people just have ears for it, never had trouble understanding jocks, but geordies? Yeah they took some getting used to for me

When you get far North enough in Scotland they are probably more intelligible to you than they are to me. :)

Their accent traced way back is a sort of amalgamation of Celtic and proto-scandinavian. The Vikings raided Scotland for hundreds of years

That's because you possess something called intelligence. I can't believe the number of English people commenting that they can't understand their own fucking language when it's spoken by somebody from outside their own town it's not that far away ffs you can walk across the border from England to Scotland it's not the other side of the planet. I've never seen an advert for an interpreter to translate glaswegian to English

It’s comedy hen , calm down

I'm English and I married into a family of Glaswegians. At first, I was always asking people to repeat themselves, but increased familiarity bred increased understanding. I think he adjusts his accent [slightly, but enough] for non-Scots audiences, so if you seek out videos of him performing in England or anywhere else but Scotland you'll stand a chance of getting familiarised enough with his accent to understand pretty much everything he says, even when he's performing in Scotland. I do think he's worth it.

@@favouritemoon4133 of course he's going to exaggerate his accent in front of a home audience just like Mickey Flanagan becomes more cockney when he plays the Hackney empire

@@michaelharrison3602 This is exaggerated? He's performing for an English-speaking audience. It's pitched to be broadly intelligible but retain local features. You'll have noticed that he can impersonate a variety of accents from England, so he could tweak the delivery further towards England if need be.

Keep listening to it, you'll soon get your ear around it... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😬

Same here🤣

Good to know that I m not the only one. Thought I lost my language skills.

Idk if it's because I'm genetically Scottish (never been to Scotland tho) but I understand him really easily

Yeahhhh, I was lucky my Kiwi grandma married a heavily Scottush fella, imagine having him round while trying to learn English

Where you from?

@@peepingsid2096 not scotland apearently

Seems like a you problem

Being fair, Kevin is speaking Scots English (or Scottish) -- a vernacular of English that is essentially a different language entirely, but mutually intelligible with Standardised English. It would be nice for people to remember that when they act like Scottish is just a "comedy accent" on the Twitter. ("Mutually intelligible" meaning that two people can speak a different language, but as long as they are closely linked enough historically and linguistically, they can understand each other just fine despite any differences in grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. Another example would be Swedish and Norwegian).

@@rachelfox8108 the scots dialect is completely different, with completely different words. This is just a glaswegian accent.

You do know what a joke is?

Why do you bother watching it if you can't understand it?

@@SuperMikado282 why not? Plus I could understand the jist of it even tho he refused to spit out the peanut butter stuffed in his cheeks but hey to each his own

@@crossroads2027 lol, he was speaking very clearly for the wider audience to understand and your still lost ? 🤣

@@HAPPYHERBS1 buddy I'm jus joking around don't take life so seriously

Something softer try Frankie Boyle

@@robertreid2002 Thanks.

@@robertreid2002 🤣 Or Jerry Sadowitz...

Watch something else then

I'm surprised you managed to write a comment in English

@@michaelharrison3602 how is that surprising?

Yes, yes it is.

Ffs