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"We've added a new locale: SCO" That could be quite cool. So, Scots Gaelic, yes? Preserving a rich cultural history? From https://www.mozilla.org/sco/ https:/

"We've added a new locale: SCO" That could be quite cool. So, Scots Gaelic, yes? Preserving a rich cultural history? From https://www.mozilla.org/sco/ https://www.mozilla.org/sco/ "We mak the internet saufer, soonder, and faster fur guid" What the actual arsing F, Mozilla? edit: well, maybe, I must admit I didn't know of a canonical written form of modern Scots. It still looks an awful lot like sco.wikipedia.org, which is a grotesque parody written from the US. You'll forgive some suspicion.

webmaven 5y ago
> "We've added a new locale: SCO" That could be quite cool. So, Scots Gaelic, yes? Preserving a rich cultural history? Nope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language
hhlbf 5y ago
You have to read it with the voice of Groundskeeper Willie.
- ectopod 5y ago
  Or Rab C. Nesbitt.
dwb 5y ago
No, the Scots language, which is indeed part of a rich cultural history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language Scottish Gaelic would be "gla".
orra 5y ago
> well, maybe, I must admit I didn't know of a canonical written form of modern Scots. Modren Scots, unfortunately, disna hae ae orthography, altho it haes a wheen o credible an similar yins. We'd probably hae a mair official orthography gin Scots hidna been surpressed for hunners o year, an insteid we lairnt it proper in the scuil. > It still looks an awful lot like sco.wikipedia.org, which is a grotesque parody written from the US. You'll forgive some suspicion. This is a pish opinion. Firefox wis owerset intil Scots by twa talentit fowk. Unfortunately, the Scots tongue haes ower monie gowks that leuk doun upo it. Either they cry that Scots is ‘no a real language’ or somehou that Scots spikkars are no spikkin ‘real’ Scots.
- yodelshady 5y ago
  All those words are in the OED, so take the spelling up with Sir James Murray.

webmaven 5y ago

> "We've added a new locale: SCO" That could be quite cool. So, Scots Gaelic, yes? Preserving a rich cultural history? Nope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language

hhlbf 5y ago

You have to read it with the voice of Groundskeeper Willie.

ectopod 5y ago
Or Rab C. Nesbitt.

dwb 5y ago

No, the Scots language, which is indeed part of a rich cultural history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language Scottish Gaelic would be "gla".

orra 5y ago

> well, maybe, I must admit I didn't know of a canonical written form of modern Scots. Modren Scots, unfortunately, disna hae ae orthography, altho it haes a wheen o credible an similar yins. We'd probably hae a mair official orthography gin Scots hidna been surpressed for hunners o year, an insteid we lairnt it proper in the scuil. > It still looks an awful lot like sco.wikipedia.org, which is a grotesque parody written from the US. You'll forgive some suspicion. This is a pish opinion. Firefox wis owerset intil Scots by twa talentit fowk. Unfortunately, the Scots tongue haes ower monie gowks that leuk doun upo it. Either they cry that Scots is ‘no a real language’ or somehou that Scots spikkars are no spikkin ‘real’ Scots.

yodelshady 5y ago
All those words are in the OED, so take the spelling up with Sir James Murray.