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For the benefit of confused Americans like myself: English as it is spoken in Scotland, Scots, and Scots Gaelic are three different things.
by mbg721 5y ago
For the benefit of confused Americans like myself: English as it is spoken in Scotland, Scots, and Scots Gaelic are three different things.
- biztos 5y agoInteresting, I think Wikipedia is saying it's a distinct language that shares a lot of words etc with English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language And I admit I have no idea where the line is between a dialect, and that.
- meepmorp 5y ago> And I admit I have no idea where the line is between a dialect, and that. It's usually based around a combination of factor - mutual intelligibility, orthographic conventions, etc. Also, of course, "a language is a dialect with an army and navy." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an_army_and_navy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...