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Mark Frauenfelder at 9:07 am Wed, Feb 1, 2012

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  • http://twitter.com/GaspardWinckler Joe McNally

    Previously executed with rather more brio by Scottish BBC sketch show Burnistoun - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFcZIY-t1bc

    • http://chicagoscooterclub.com Chicago_SC

      too funny. 

    • Paul Renault

      I don’t know why ‘eleven’ didn’t work in that elevator.  It’s using one half of the available Scottish vowels.

      I’d live there if I could, just so I could watch “Taysiders in Space” on the telly.

      That, and the whisky.

  • pizzicato

    Not all Scottish people peaks like Glaswegian ‘fat bastard’, I love Kristy Young on radio, she has a fabulous voice.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnmr

    • Graeme McGregor

      Nobody said they do, but there’s a hell of a lot more people who speak with a strong Glasgow accent than there is people who sound like Kirsty Young. And there’s nothing wrong with speaking in a strong Glaswegian accent, either. 

      • Paul Renault

        John Barrowman, for example:
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHYMG4VKbw0

        • geth

          David Tennant, for example. You know, since we’re on the subject:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbg4MlHQ8Ds&feature=related

    • toyg

      I actually find Kristy Young’s accent quite annoying, the few times  it actually emerges, probably because it really strides with her otherwise very posh dictation, like it happens with many Scottish people who “went to Oxbridge”.

  • Mike Norman

    As someone who stutters, I can empathize.

    Though, my speech-impediment doesn’t seem as severe as this gentleman’s.

  • drublin

    Wasn’t this in last weeks episode of “The Big Bang Theory?”

    • http://chicagoscooterclub.com Chicago_SC

      westawant

  • IronEdithKidd

    Siri is not Scottish, thus, Siri is crap.

  • realityhater

    Fu#$ing  Brilliant !   now get me ma jammie dodger  , ma chip butty , and ma McEwans  straight away !  I’m Starvin ya cow……..hey while your at it throw in a couple of penguin biscuits and I will be set—-

  • Jennifer Torkkola

    Not that it probably would’ve helped much, but at least put Siri into UK mode if you’re from that side of the pond.  British Siri totally can’t understand my weird Texan/midwestern hybrid accent :(

  • Bryan Davis

    I’m tear-filled. My wife is concerned, thinks somethings wrong. She says she hasn’t seen me laugh like that in over a year.

  • Guest

    One of Gavin McInnes’s once-daily funny moments. The rest of the time, he’s talking about his kids or whining about perceived injustices against whites.

  • ranomatic

    I am gullible – I thought this really was an Apple commercial. Even after watching it.

  • http://twitter.com/smitjb2 Jim Smith

    It’s not very Scottish. We[*] don’t say “butty” for sandwich.  A jammy dodger is not bread and jam (See Victory of the Daleks for an illustration) . And the beer references are clunky – as if someone was throwing in random scottish names to make it sound more scottish.

    [*] We – as in no true Scotsman.

    • KanedaJones

      Is it possible? A valid “no true scotsman” argument?

    • Anon_Mahna

      I thought he sounded off kilter, but I wrote it off as possibly being regional dialect/slang different from what I’m familiar with.

    • http://www.facebook.com/benjamin.pask Benjamin Pask

      I’ve no problem with chip butty, but Jammie Dodger is unforgiveable – they’re biscuits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammie_Dodger
      Bread and jam = jeely piece

      • http://twitter.com/smitjb2 Jim Smith

        As in the old song ‘Ye canny throw a jeely piece fae 20 storey flat’.
        In the old 2-3 storey glasgow tenements with an enclosed central courtyard[*], kids would play in the courtyard and mothers could throw sandwiches to them. 

        The song dates from the post war period, when they were building high rise flats to move people from the old tenements.

        * Courtyard seems too grand for what it actually was.

  • robuluz

    We have similar issues in Australia. I often adopt an American accent to get my Android phone listening to me.

  • Teto85

    Don’t the Brits have David rather than Siri?

  • AKWintermute

    I couldn’t understand him, how’s a computer!

  • benher

    Well, all of you non-American English speaking countries are perfectly welcome to invent your own mono-buttoned brushed aluminum devices driven by a cult of personality that have a semi-literate robo-voice purchased by a third party developer and then prevented from running on previous models in order to sell a newer version of the previous model with only slightly better specs… 

    • robuluz

      Fine then. We will!

  • http://profiles.google.com/andrew.l.wood Andrew Wood

    Good idea for a skit, but I was really expecting this to be funnier.

  • Palomino

    Did I hear  ”Joanie Loves Chachi”? If I didn’t, I still had a rollicking good time.

  • mguffin

    Isnae funny, ken?