Speak properly: Is Doric dying | Lauren Hay | TEDxAberdeen

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At a time when we are encouraged to be our authentic selves, why are we discouraged from using our Mother Tongue? Lauren Hay dives deep into the fate of Doric - the Scots language spoken in the north-east of Scotland. While digital conversations and screen time are leading to less real life conversations, could social media platforms actually provide a means of preserving local dialects, saving them from extinction? Lauren shares stories from her childhood and work life exploring the disconnection of the Doric language from day to day life and unravels whether the north-east dialect is dying out. Lauren Hay launched her own business, Faramagan Studio back in 2019. Specialising in all things content creation, Lauren is passionate about social media management and copywriting. Born in Cullen, north of Aberdeen in Scotland, she is a keen traveller having visited 30 countries to date, sharing her adventures on her travel blog, Faramagan - Doric for "where am I going". This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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@donbennett5353 Год назад

As a non speaking Māori, never let your mother language die.

@annapilon7770 Год назад

Hello quine fae Cullen. Aye, I wis telt tae speak proper English when I started Portsoy school in the early sixties. Can still hear her words. The mention of being labelled cheuchters was no stranger to me in lowland Scotland after we moved from the NE. Long time wife of an Englishman I am proud he is familiar with many Doric words. I Am who I Am and proud to be one of Jock Thampson's bairns living South of The Border for many years!

@donsland1610 2 месяца назад

Like you Lauren, only spoke Doric until I went to Mintlaw Primary School back in 1954. Since then I've travelled the world and now live in Asia but the minute ma feet hit the grun' at Dyce Airport am richt back intae ma mither tongue as ye pit it, and lang may that continue.

@brendablack4650 Год назад

I’m deein ma best, bit it’s nae easy textin in Doric! Fit a time it taks!

@matureandsingle Год назад

whit a braw talk. Am fae Fife an love ma accent, it's who a am. When I lived abroad I was told "you're the number one.......hardest to understand" They didnae ken how honoured a was :)

@mayorguythescienceguy6023 Год назад

Lauren are you related to Alex or Teddy Hays?

@gingerdad127 Год назад

I left Aberdeen in 1982 and moved to Australia. 37 years later, I heard a Scottish tourist speak Doric on the streets of Sydney! Couldn't speak it but completely understood every word! I miss Aberdeen and speaking Doric ☺️🤗🥰

@rorylobban4789 Год назад

Fowk at think a fancy accent is the een that aye succeeds, tak peety on sic craturs for they’ve ah teem heeds.

@maldaley235 Год назад

We should be ashamed that Scots allowed our languages to be lost, thank goodness for people like Lauren.

@THAINBIRD Год назад

I was brocht up in Maud but moved to Forres at eleven years old, as a young loon and an incomer I was telt naebody could understand fit I wis spikin aboot ,so my younger brother and massell were sent tae elocution lessons (learnin foo tae spik fancy) twice a week. I stuck it out for a term and learned how to enunciate most words properly, nae mair 'fit' 'foo' and 'fa' or 'funcy sheen' and 'breeks' for me, I wore brogues with trousers and joined in whatever was going on, with whoever for whatever length of time. My brother on the other hand stuck at the elocution for years and went on to win spoken English competitions all over the country. Since meeting and marrying my wife I moved to Buckie where her friends and relatives accuse me of talking posh..........YE CANNA WIN !!! Be Yersell

@oyl80 7 месяцев назад

My grandparents and old man bid in Maud, I grew up in the toon. Still spik it with my faither and nephew fan I'm at hame.

@irenedownie6559 Год назад

I love The Doric and Ah’m prood that my loon and quine baith spik it ah the time. Nae funcy spikkin allowed in oor hoose! Ayewis be prood oh yer mither tongue.

@drrd4127 Год назад

Ah'm no fae aroon yer bit, bit ah kinna un'nerstaun maist ae wit ye wir oan aboot. Ah kin translate doric in ma heid tae ma deealect sometimes: Fan = whan Fit = wit Fa = wha Div = dae Hiv = hae/hiv Loon = laddie Quine = lassie Kinna th' easy pairt bit sumhings ah'm lost, maist 'hings ur th' same though.

@brucelumsden94 Год назад

I was born here in Australia, lived here all my life. My father was Scottish born and I had Scottish immigrant grandparents. It was only when I went to Scotland in 2016 that I was told the Scottish words I knew are Doric. I am amazed how much of it I can understand. I now realise in our family we have always included some doric words in conversation and I thought I always speak pure Aussie.

@margierolleston Год назад

I live in NZ and my mum was Scottish and spoke doric to us. I had no idea that quine and loon and skunnard and lugs and breeks etc etc were doric and not english. So funny when people asked what I meant in my younger yesrs.

@aubreywang3937 Год назад

Although these are Scots words, many of them have cognates in English: quine> queen, loon (uncertain origin), breeks> breeches, lugs I don’t really know this one

@Imjustananimal Год назад

I love the fact your mum brought her Doric to NZ ^^ did she mention wifeys for older ladies and cheels for men? :3

@jami376 Месяц назад

@@aubreywang3937 Lugs is apparently of Scandinavian origin, according to Google!

@mrgogs Год назад

She's a brilliant speaker! Braw talk quine!

@msorsaleslie Год назад

We hiv tae see it writin doon. I nivir did till a wis in ma forties. Ats i key.

@drrd4127 Год назад

Ah did! Et th' schuil they wid mak us aw dae Scots poetrie aw th' time. Did ma Heid in!

@jennifersmith3238 Год назад

What a great talk. Ye did a gran job, Lauren!

@Imjustananimal Год назад

God aye, mony a time I mind being telt te spiek properly. I ken I'll be spieking te my loonie as my mither did te me. A'ready words fae my toon are gone, or naebody minds fit some wordies meant. Too long; did not understand: I'll speak it as too many words have been forgotten as is

@mrjscottmurray Год назад

Same wi' Dundonian...a'most completely deed fir th' same reasons! 😞 Ance did an audition wi th' BBC, same 'hing ," 'Interesting' accent, where is that from!". The CD had obviously ne'er heard Scots or onything but polite Edinburgh/Glaswegian.

@victorgreig565 Год назад

Weel deen quine, Hud Gan.

@gchecosse Год назад

Here in the North East I don't think anyone thinks speaking Doric means you're a nationalist, if anything the contrary. Gaelic yes, but that's a recent shibboleth of the last few years.

@JJMcgechan 8 месяцев назад

I wish she said spikkin

@grantmcw Год назад

Brilliant, Lauren. Well done!!

@gav2759 9 месяцев назад

As a child of the sixties I was berated and belted for my steadfast refusal to "speak the Queen's English" I pursued a one loon resistance. Even those speaking only "Doric" were never taught to write it, so all written communication was in English. Interestingly, the WhatsApp generation use a phonetic for of Doric when messaging. I doubt it will save the language from homogenisation, but I like the wee bit of Irony.

@ericgeddes3353 5 месяцев назад

I wish I could speck it. My great grandparents came from Peterheed and my grandpa and dad raised me to be proud of my Scottish heritage. I was blessed enough to visit Peterheeed with my parents when I was 18 and met some Doric speakers, I tried to find videos or courses to teach me but I couldn't find much online.

@stlouisix3 3 месяца назад

Long live the Scots and the Doric dialect!!!

@michaelchen8643 18 дней назад

Doric is a language That has a lot of neutral intelligibility with standard English, so I can function as a partial dialect And the parts of Doric that are not Part of standard English sound to the untrained ear like a idiom of standard English he gets confused as being a rough Unrefined dialect When it is a language in town right like the rest of the Scots language

@RuralSpanishRetirement 2 месяца назад

Speaking Doric is grand, but not if your audience can’t understand you. I’m delighted that kids are being encouraged to speak Doric, it wasn’t encouraged in my youth.. but I no longer live in the north east and if I spoke Doric now.. well.. I’d have to repeat each sentence in English as well 😂

@brucemacallan6831 5 месяцев назад

We’ve had the English language foisted on us since we started school.

@jamesonsnlemonade 4 месяца назад

"When we poo" should have been ging for a jobbie. 😆

@christopherthorpe6749 11 месяцев назад

The way of life doric conjures up makes me shudder... Driving rain, cold, rough, grey etc.

@gav2759 9 месяцев назад

I wonder why that is? "Doric" is spoken in North East Scotland, an area. as my old geography teacher would tell us, lying in the rain shadow of the Grampians. As such, is statistically one of the driest places in the UK. It also enjoys above average sunshine.....I'll give you "cold" though.

@brucemacallan6831 5 месяцев назад

I’m a native Buchan tounge (Doric) speaker from Fraserburgh. I grew up in the 60’s & 70’s, and I will never give up my first language. Even though I speak various languages- including English- I will never give it up. I speak it whenever I can. Sadly though fewer and fewer people understand me. Even in NE Scotland. I still have the original vocabulary and pronunciation, but it’s dying out.

@lesleygordon5262 4 месяца назад

I came to Australia in 1961 at age 4 from Banff and still speak Doric to my sister. I'm now 67!

@brucemacallan6831 5 месяцев назад

Had a conversation with two Aberdonians a couple of years ago. We were in Africa, so I was glad to have NE Scots to converse with. They had difficulty understanding me