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It's like he created the latin wikipedia by converting English wiki pages into pig-latin. It massively misrepresents the language, and when you're talking abou
by fatbird 6y ago
It's like he created the latin wikipedia by converting English wiki pages into pig-latin. It massively misrepresents the language, and when you're talking about a language like Scots that's very little used, and possibly in danger of going extinct, this is massively polluting to it.
What he created isn't a Scots wikipedia, it's a bad parody of one that gets words wrong and is completely ignorant of Scots grammar, while sitting in a position of relative authority.
If you can speak Scots, can you read these as Scots? Does it genuinely seem like it's actually written in Scots?
- arethuza 6y agoThe articles I read came across more as someone trying to phonetically describe a Scottish accent rather than using what I would recognise as Scots dialect. I don't think that approach will get you from "How are you?" to "Fit like?".
- soneil 6y agoThe reddit thread made a great example of "an aw" being used as a substitution for "also", so I'll round that example out to illustrate. In a nutshell, his dictionary has provided him "also"->"an aw", but it's better translated as "and all" or "as well". So "I had eggs for breakfast; I had toast also" works as "I had toast an aw" (I had toast as well). But "I also had toast" does not work as "I an aw had toast" (I as well had toast). "I had eggs for breakfast; I as well had toast"; As a native English speaker you'd find that perfectly intelligible, but jarring. I'm not Scottish, but I lived there for most my childhood - so I have a reasonable gut for what just feels wrong. And many the examples I've seen so far, look like spam that's been wrung through a thesaurus. The meaning's there but it doesn't make it correct.