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“translated into Scottish”? Perhaps you mean Scottish English, or maybe Scots, but Scottish?
by TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
“translated into Scottish”?
Perhaps you mean Scottish English, or maybe Scots, but Scottish?
- orf 10y agoDae ye ken whit sarcasm is?
- iamphilrae 10y agoWhae's Ken? ;-)
- rcarmo 10y agoThat be the bonniest wee joke yet :)
- hrnnnnnn 10y agoI'm from Scotland, "Scottish" sounds right to my ear in this instance. "Scots" is a proper dialect, the one used by Burns, and is not widely spoken any more. "Scottish English", in my experience, is usually only used when distinguishing colloquial Scottish from Scots, or when discussing the various British variants of English.
- Spakman 10y agoI used to think the same sort of thing regarding the Scots language, but a while ago I came across this website that disagrees: http://www.ayecan.com/faq.html#answer1 http://www.ayecan.com/faq.html#answer1
- hrnnnnnn 10y ago"If you are able to understand the local Scottish dialect of the area where you were brought up, or the area where you have chosen to live, or both, this means that you can understand Scots." The way I understand "Scots" is the dialect Robert Burns writes in, and I have a really hard time understanding that without a dictionary. It seems like a useful distinction to me, rather than lumping "Colloquial, contemporary Scottish English" and "the way Scottish farmers spoke a hundred years ago" under the same name.
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- kagamine 10y agoWell, I hail from east of Edinburgh and would say this is neither Scots nor Scottish. I would hazard a guess at 'council estate English'. * Runs away
- teh_klev 10y agoGet back here ye wee raj tae ah kin hiv a wurd wi you oot the back :)
- deepnet 10y agoIt is correctly called Scots. Scots is as old as English. It is just as much its own root British language though often misconceived as a dialect of English. Scots has its own dialects like Dundonian Doric. The other Scottish tongue, the language of the Highlands and Islands, is Gaelic - a Celtic kin of Irish. Scots is Grammatically Distinct, e.g. the 2nd person plural: yous (the plural of you): as in 'yous are all dafties'. Some American derives from a Scots root rather than English, e.g. the poke of chips of Appalacia is Scots.
- teh_klev 10y agohttp://www.dsl.ac.uk/about-scots/the-scots-language/ http://www.dsl.ac.uk/about-scots/the-scots-language/