Yeh it shouldn't be difficult, Roddy is from Edinburgh and people always seem to say that Edinburgh accents are easy to understand but Glaswegian is a nightmare. I'm Glaswegian but my family are English and they have real trouble understanding me. Back to the song, I think with the whole Scottish FICTION thing it's talking about the stereotypes that come with being Scottish and also the identity part that samcooper, Hezven's_Child and Nothing_To_Savour all talk about. I like the fact that they have put the message in this album "Support your local poet", don't know if this is meant literally of it just means 'be proud of your identity', so in that way, yes i think it's dedicated to their Scottish fans. It's great that they seem to be getting the message across. "You will not shake us off" is sort of showing how proud and determined the Scottish seem to be at keeping their identity. Though you can't really describe it, it isn't all kilts and lochs. I think while the whole of Britain seems to be merging with America (which SUCKS), like the subject in 'American English', Scotland are gonna have to try and keep their culture, but not be known by their cleches... Think i'm rambling now... You get my point...
Yeh it shouldn't be difficult, Roddy is from Edinburgh and people always seem to say that Edinburgh accents are easy to understand but Glaswegian is a nightmare. I'm Glaswegian but my family are English and they have real trouble understanding me. Back to the song, I think with the whole Scottish FICTION thing it's talking about the stereotypes that come with being Scottish and also the identity part that samcooper, Hezven's_Child and Nothing_To_Savour all talk about. I like the fact that they have put the message in this album "Support your local poet", don't know if this is meant literally of it just means 'be proud of your identity', so in that way, yes i think it's dedicated to their Scottish fans. It's great that they seem to be getting the message across. "You will not shake us off" is sort of showing how proud and determined the Scottish seem to be at keeping their identity. Though you can't really describe it, it isn't all kilts and lochs. I think while the whole of Britain seems to be merging with America (which SUCKS), like the subject in 'American English', Scotland are gonna have to try and keep their culture, but not be known by their cleches... Think i'm rambling now... You get my point...