Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/03/24/woman-speaking-shaetlan.html
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Here’s the POTUS talking shit or having a seizure, or both.
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In comment to her thoughts on dialect vs. language, my favorite quote about this is by linguist Max Weinreich: A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
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There’s an idiom she uses there around the 1 minute mark, talking about Edinburgh, “the chances of me [doing something] are brown and slick.” What a fine turn of phrase.
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I just want to sit and listen to her talk for hours. It’s hypnotic.
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That’s “The chances of me gaen hame (going home) were barly slicht (barely slight- so, quite unlikely).”
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Beautiful dialect. A dialect of English, recognizably. Norn, also mentioned, is closer to the Scandinavian languages, having come down from Old Norse and the Vikings.
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Nice accent. Perfectly comprehensible to me. But then I’ve lived in Scotland and the isles.
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Ah, that makes more sense. Although I like the phrase I thought I heard!
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It helps that she has such casually immaculate enunciation. I don’t speak my one language as clearly as she’s speaking two.
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And if they have a flag, there is no stopping them;
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It was nice knowing you. 
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While the accent is interesting the audio quality itself is rather poor. It’s almost as if there is a reverb or echo an octave lower that I’m hearing. Tried it on two different pieces of equipment, so I’m not thinking it’s me.
I’m also not a fan of the mouth clicking stuff. That’s the main reason I hate most ASMR videos.
Also eggs and mist.
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So soothing! I want her to read the BBC News.
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And transparent adhesive tape.
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I was going to say all of the above, but it occurred to me that by “English accents” you meant “accents of people speaking English”, rather than a misnomer for “British accents”. So you might get away with that, but you’re still going to get pushback on “Scotch”. 
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And certain folk from rural Ontario.
Galbraith tells us that when he was growing up, the people around him referred to themselves as Scotch.
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Mmmmmm - shrooms.
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closely related to English
Surely it is English, albeit without so much of that filth French influence in it…
I’m reminded of:
A Yorkshireman landing on the north Kent coast in the late 1300s asked a farmer’s wife for some eggs . ’ I don’t speak French ,’ she told him, and shut the door.
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