It has to stop. This “, no?” shite. This talking like Poirot shite.
Some examples from the last few months:
- “dont know why, but it seems a wee bit mare like credits music, no?”
- “Sounds a bit fascist, no?”
- “I’m just saying that poetry and written comedy are both simply clever use of language, no?”
- “Plenty sleazy Scottish MPs, no?”
Now, if you mean “know?”, if you mean the short way of saying “know what I mean?”, then say “know?”. Don’t say “no?”.
But if you mean “no?”, then fucking stop what you’re doing, stop right there and think.
What the fuck are you up to? Why are you talking like Poirot?
I know I keep saying it, but why are cunts talking like Poirot? Cunts are genuinely beginning to talk like Agatha Christie’s fictional Belgian detective Poirot. That is a reality that I am facing in my life.
Next it’ll be “, n’est pas?”
“Limmy, you go on about Scottish independence, but politicians are bastards no matter what country they’re running, n’est pas? Use your little grey cells and you will see that I am right, no? N’est pas? No?”
No more. Any comments posted on my blog with “no?” in that context again (bar replies to this post) will be deleted immediately and without warning and I will see to it that the person responsible is wiped off the map.
Poirot’s shite. Columbo’s the man, oui?
People don’t like it when I say “, capiche?”. Dunno, why. Maybe ’cause my name isn’t Al Capone.
i talk like that quite alot especially when im pissed i say no at the end of everything. i want the council to pay for elocution lessons.
Remins me of the classic film – Murder by Death.
Driver – “It chills me to my boes”
Poirot – “What?”
Driver – “My bones”
Poirot – “You have buns, where? WHERE?”
Driver – “The bone sin my body”
Poirot – “you know not to speak with an accent when you know I’m hungry”
Folk that say “,sure” at the end of a sentance too.
Like; “aye but that was the same time as when you were in the jail, sure”
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Intended meaning is key, don’t you know.
I doubt that many folk are flinging pseudo-french aboot, ken?
{pseu-pseu-pseu-di-oh-oh … french}
Aright limmy? Could just be me but i think your rss feed is fucked up, prescription drugs an aw that. Sort it oot!
With you there on the “, no?” thing (“, but” too), but are you aware your RSS feeds seem to be getting hijacked by spammers?
I went through a stage when I said ‘bawbag’ at the end of most sentences. For example:
“Could I have two magners and a jack daniels and coke please, bawbag?”. Or:
“Hows it going, got any pills, bawbag?” Or:
“Don’t ever call me bawbag, bawbag!”
My nose will never be the same shape again, ken?
Another thing I have noticed going on more and more is when people finish a sentence, on the last word there intonation goes up at the end like an Australiian.
It does my head in
‘…especially when im pissed’
Oh oh
I say it because I used to be a Mexican. That makes it OK for me Cringo, no?
“capiche” isn’t a word. It’s slang, that was invented by daft Americans to put into their gangster films, to make them sound cool. They correct way of saying it is, “hai cappito”, which means, “have you understood” or “do you understand”.
Had to get that off my chest.
“They correct way of saying it is,” Bastard!
“The correct way of saying it is,”
Fucking Bastard!
What is it with you and pulling folk up on grammar and spelling mistakes? Its almost every time theres a new blog post theres someone being pulled up on it.
You want everyone to do what you do, speak the way you speak? Aye? cool.
I just think each to their own, no?
It’s just a lazy person’s question tag, isn’t it? There’s no need for it, is there? The world would be a better place without it, wouldn`t it?
Nah, that’s way too much effort.
Maybe people could just adopt the German way by adding ‘or’ with the same same rising intonation at the end. Would that be better?
What if you use innat no where do you stand with the innat ?
Another wee question thats come up at work, a Russian asked what the meaning of stuff was and I just pointed at things on my desk and said like this stuff, and an
American in the office said yea thats all your shit and I said what’s one mans shit is another mans stuff !
Which brought me round to the saying “stuff’s about you” what does that mean ?
Limmy is being hacked by the government because it is illegal to be on a bike and use a mobile at the same time.
Yeah I was going to mention it yesterday, what Derek said.
Looks like your feed has been hacked, no?
I only clicked through to get drugs for my boabie.
I think people might say it to elicit a response, no?
Otherwise it’s just a statement.
It can’t be as bad as the way some eastcoasters (Edinburghers and some Fifers) put the word ‘eh’ (sounds like ‘hay’) at the end of every sentence. It’s pure annoyin’, eh?
Oddly enough it serves the same purpose as putting ‘no’ at the end, an invitation affirm the previous statement with an option of it being a rhetorical question.
how quality is it iv got my picture workin tho!!!!!!!
Aye GiD*
It’s no quality for the rest of us to be honest seba.
It’s an affront to my eyes.
AYE.*
I’ve got a parrot for Mr. Poy Rot
It is pronounced ‘Pwah Roh’
Okay, I’ve got a ‘Pwah Roh’ for Mr. Poy Rot
My one memory of watchin Poirot years ago. This is funny, no?
should it no be naw,naw?
its definately a european thing adding a “no?” at the end of a sentence where we would normally put “d’you know what I mean?” Just listen to Rafael Benitez in any interview, he’ll do it at least once. I think with people from these islands travelling to mainland europe more frequently they’re copying some of the french/spanish/italians inflections. I can understand the disgust at people from britain/ireland at using americanisms more and more because the idea that we might be gradually turning into them is horrific. But if we’re being influenced more by other european countries, to me doesn’t seem nearly as bad. I lived in spain for a while and noticed this for the first time. I remember hearing some spaniards saying: “si, no?” as in “thats right is it not?” I laughed but you’ve got to admire their economy of words
Well Limmy, does this ring a bell…?
“A did it gerrit fae blue man. That’s the hing. That’s the hing, no? A goarrit fey blue. Am freakin oot by the way….”
Dave, read my post. Read the bit about “know?”. Read my post, mate.
Is it not short for ‘do ye (no)t think so’ rather than ‘k(no)w whit ah mean’ ?
I do it myself, though it’s more of a ‘, naw?’.
C’est beau, non? Moan the Auld Alliance!
but rhats eh hing innat no, eh disney get, disney get it at aw ken whit ah mean
bit yoo dae get it cause the stuffs aboot yea innat no byraway
I knew a boy who used to end sentences in “naht naht no” , now that is annoying.
Oh and i hate people saying “like” at the end of a sentence !
ah, it seems i’m an offender. believe it or not Poirot was roughly what i was goin for. In response to the witch hunt, i’ve decided to replace any future “,no?” with “,ken?” like a wee fake cigarette, and if that doesn’t appease you I’ll have a relapse, no? nah jokes, ken? It’s nea where near in the same league as the question at the end of every sentence phenomenon though, i could see that causin fights
Seem to have struck a nerve, aye?
There ye go simple answer… (, aye?), no?
What Snout and H Voodoo said. I think it’s texting’s fault. Letters = money + time. And illit…illitu…illiter…not being able to spell.
I like talking like Poirot.
I like yawning and smacking my lips like bears in old cartoons, next you’ll be saying “no yawning like bears in old cartoons”
You are a fucking bastard.
its not ‘no?’ it’s ‘know?….a lazy Glesga way of saying ye know? so it just becomes, for example. “that guys a pure fanny, know?” if it was like the French way of saying ‘no’ at the end of sentences then it might make sense but its not supposed to make sense…like the way we put ‘but’ at the end of sentences.
Get what I’m trying to say but, know?
Its just another way of saying isn’t it, isn’t it?
Naw, aye?
It boils my piss when you get the smug englander saying how meaning why ?
after I say how no
are you going out for a pint ?
no !
how no ?
Man, I never noticed Poirot’s sexy eyebrows before.
The only folk ever tae have spoke tae me and ended the sentence with “…no?” are junkies that start talking tae ye at a bus stop and junkies on the bus moaning aboot having their weans taken aff them.
The Jacqueline McCafferty types.
It’s in the same vain as folk that say “hungry, much?” or “jealous, much?”
I instantly lose respect for folk that talk like that.
Since I moved tae Edinburgh, aw ye get through here is folk going:
“Aye, it’s on Thursday, Ken?”
Somebody should invent an injection that makes everybody deaf and dumb – especially Scottish people on the telly ESPECIALLY quiz shows – so that there is no colloquialisms and everybody just communicates things in the same way.
But then folks fannybaws-radar would be compromised maybe?
Nae folk talking like fucking mongos means ye cannae really tell whos awright and who isnae. So maybe the folk that talk like this have inherited a HumanSelfPreservation gene that signals tae others that they are unfit tae be tolerated and should be avoided, thus meaning that the HSP gene ends and dies with that person, and evolution takes a step forward, missing oot the people and offspring the planet does not need.
Kind of like how wasps have stripes cats ears turn right roon tae the back of their heids.
A helpful gene put there to warn us away from idiots.
Poirot’s awright, though. He says it in that pigeon-English translated way. English isnae his first language so we’ll forgive him for that only.
But folk whose first language is English and who have been familiar with sentence structure and listening to and talking English for the best part of their lives – there’s nae excuse. Kill them aw.
Oh aye, and another thing Limmy – be thankful that ye don’t have tae put up with that AND some fucking daftie in the chippy asking “Salt and sauce?”
I think the ‘n’est pas’ thing could take off but mixed with a bit of glaswegian…’Je ne pas dangeur, dawl!’ confuses fuck out of any frenchies…
Aye speak proper!
My sister keeps finishing sentences with “but” (instead of “though”) and it does my head in.
“Will ye get the paper after work.”
-”Aye.”
“Aye, well ye better but.”
Grammar Hammar attack.
what about “Get me?”, “Comprende?”, “Eez eet not zee case?” (no heard that one? u need to get out more, honestly, the yloung ones cant get enough of their comaedy racist accents) and the everpopular “Mmmm?” (think John Cleese thrusting his face at your face as he makes the sound, it encourages agreement!)
sorry, never spell-checked any of that pish before submitting so its error-strewn and pointless. Still, nobody’s perfect, no?
But is it no the same thing when folk talk or type using words like “nae” instead of “not” and “aw” instead of “all” and “tae” instead of “to”? If you type or speak using coloquialisms then you can’t make an argument about speaking/typing properly, Hastings
The ,no thing isnae really that annoyin when you think about it. i’ve never heard anyone say it in the real world, the only thing i’ve heard that’s similar is “,ken” and thats no too bad. i only just noticed it was a wee meme here after this was posted.
The really anoyin thing is the way loads of people are startin to dae the upspeak thing aw the time. I swear those are the ones causin the downfall of society. Ruins my day whenever i hear it.
Ah think we’ll be havin’ thatnthat jaicket, no?
Try living in Falkirk, we put “like” at the end of every sentence like.
*n’est-ce pas
How do ye know its not “know?” eh?
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