I'm quite sorry, me Scots is sadly in an advanced state o' rustinessJohn_fi_Skye wrote:Svartalf wrote:Nary the need, jist t'ink o'what it ud seound leyk in braid Scots.FBM wrote:Can you imagine what it would look like in Scottish Gaelic, tho?
It widnae soond like that oniwiy!
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The same can be said about Scots, eh?
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That's aa richt: dinnae fash yersel aboot it. It's guid that ye hud a go!Svartalf wrote:I'm quite sorry, me Scots is sadly in an advanced state o' rustinessJohn_fi_Skye wrote:Svartalf wrote:Nary the need, jist t'ink o'what it ud seound leyk in braid Scots.FBM wrote:
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Oh ha bloody ha.FBM wrote:The same can be said about Scots, eh?
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Who was it said "A language is just a dialect with an army and a navy"?
If there is sufficient internal consistency in the language, then you should be able to translate anything into it, why not some Hitchens?
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If there is sufficient internal consistency in the language, then you should be able to translate anything into it, why not some Hitchens?
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Robert_S wrote:Who was it said "A language is just a dialect with an army and a navy"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language ... y_and_navy"A language is a dialect with an army and navy" is a description of the distinction between dialect and language. It points out the influence that political conditions can have over a community's perception of the status of a language or dialect. The description was popularized by the Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich, who heard it from a member of the audience at one of his lectures.
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If this is about Scots, then I have to say I'm not one of those who would try to argue that Scots is a language separate from English. Of course it's a dialect. Those who argue it's a language do so for political and not linguistic reasons. With my history of only limited success at learning Gaelic (’s e cànan doirbh a th’ ann!), which IS of course a different language, I could never argue that about Scots.Gawdzilla wrote:Robert_S wrote:Who was it said "A language is just a dialect with an army and a navy"?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language ... y_and_navy"A language is a dialect with an army and navy" is a description of the distinction between dialect and language. It points out the influence that political conditions can have over a community's perception of the status of a language or dialect. The description was popularized by the Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich, who heard it from a member of the audience at one of his lectures.
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