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Hi... What does this phrase mean? "should auld acquaintance be forget" I read in wikipedia that it's the part of a poem named auld lang syne that is sung to celebrate the new year but what does it mean hear? Now this is a kill I've been looking forward to for a long time. You're the one who started this all, so many years ago. Should auld acquaintance be forgot? - No, no, but-- - It's a rhetorical question.
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It sounds as if the speaker is talking to an enemy whom he has wished to kill for a long time. "Auld aquaintance" can be translated to "old aquaintance", or someone you have known for a long time but probably is not a friend. So, the speaker is asking himself if he should simply forget this person, but answers saying "No," and that the question doesn't even actually need a response because the answer is so obviously "no".
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Thank you:)
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right gude = right good or very good; willy waught = warming drink (whisky?). Another more questions on 18th century Scots dialect ? Robert Burns is my favourite poet. Try reading 'For a'that' http://www.robertburns.org/works/496.shtml
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Thank you! I have trouble with what you said :) I really didn't get it! 'And we’ll tak a right gude-willy waught'?!
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Yes it's a rhetorical question, with the rhetorical answer being no. It means Should old friends be forgotten, just because it was long ago? I thought you would have had more trouble with 'And we’ll tak a right gude-willy waught'.
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