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A healthy national language movement would promptly give the kid a scholarship

• ratg13 4y ago
  The guy started as a 12yo just making up stuff online .. then continued to just make stuff up for almost a decade. The only thing he managed to do was to convince people that scots isn’t a real language. Why would you give him a scholarship? For good intentions?
  • suprjami 4y ago
    Because channelling his interest and talent where it can be fostered by experts in the field is much better that villifying him on the internet for 15 minutes of headline clicks. It's uncommon these days to think of what is best for someone else, especially when they are the "bad guy" in a news story, but give it a try.
  • yucky 4y ago
    > Why would you give him a scholarship? Because he's more original (and dedicated) than 95%+ of the copy/paste drones applying at most schools?
  • none_to_remain 4y ago
    > The only thing he managed to do was to convince people that scots isn’t a real language. I would say rather that the fact that Scottish people did not stand up a substantial Scots Wikipedia until this story blew up indicates that it recently became important that Scots is definitely a real language. I'm not gonna fault some 12-year-old nerd with a book of Burns if he wanders in, place is empty, and no one's really minding the store.