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If the teen behind it was well meaning, then teaching him proper Scots might be worthwhile.

• LandR 6y ago
  > proper Scots I don't think there is such a thing? Scottish people speak English, some use more slang than others, but it's English. This Scottish wikipedia reads like utter nonsense.
  • ska 6y ago
    Tosh, as they say. Scots speak multiple languages and multiple dialects. The Scots language you incorrectly dismiss comes from a linguistic divergence in the 1500s, and has distinct regional dialects (e.g. Doric, with many Danish loan words etc.) Which is separate from Scots Gaelic....
    • senorsmile 6y ago
      Correct. Scottish English is a dialect of english, while the Scots Language is a germanic language that is different enough to have low mutual intelligibility (which means it's a different language and not a dialect... although this distinction doesn't have really clear criteria in Linguistics currently).
  • AndrewDucker 6y ago
    Part of the reason this was spotted is that Scots grammar is not the same as English grammar. Interesting article here on the actual history https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/scots-language https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/scots-language