You can all read Scottish.

by **happysadfun** on Sat Dec 02, 2006 6:07 pm

Here's the article for Esperanto in the Scottish Wikipedia:

"Esperanto is a planned international leid, creatit in 1887 bi L. L. Zamenhof. It is the maist widely spaeken planned leid in the warld, spoken bi aboot twa million fowk.

Its vocabular is maistly taen frae Romance soorces, wi a simplifee'd gremmer an an agglutinative morphology that maks wird-creation eith. The spellin o Esperanto wis designed tae be haillie conseistent an aa, altho Zamenhof felt this needit the creation o sax new letters: ĉ [ʧ], ĝ [ʤ], ĥ [x], ĵ [ʒ], ŝ [ʃ], an ŭ [w]."
Hint- leid=language

by **Backglass** on Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:29 pm

If it's not Scottish, it's CRAP!

by **s.xkitten** on Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:38 pm

nice pic..its you, right?

by **Backglass** on Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:45 pm

s.xkitten wrote:nice pic..its you, right?

Yes. I am Mike Myers.

by **MeDeFe** on Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:28 am

Of course we can read scottish.

by **Stopper** on Sun Dec 03, 2006 6:38 pm

Anybidy wha speaks English cin. A thae people whae say "Scots" should be clessifed is a seperate language frae English ur talking oot their erses.

EDIT: Eh've nivir heard "leid" fur "language", cept them at the Scots Wikipedia - A huv to assume they're no pulling abiddy's leg aboot that.

by **MeDeFe** on Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:34 am

well... people who know swedish can read norwegian and danish, and vice versa, they can even understand each other when talking, too (except for the danes, noone understands them...;-) ). And those are considered to be separate languages, so why shouldn't Scots be a language of its own, too?

by **for dummies** on Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:27 am

read the latest economist article.

http://www.economist.com/world/britain/ ... id=8353213

Scottish independance!!!!! (hopefully)

by **MeDeFe** on Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:30 am

It's been some time since they last had it, right?

by **Stopper** on Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:57 pm

MeDeFe wrote:well... people who know swedish can read norwegian and danish, and vice versa, they can even understand each other when talking, too (except for the danes, noone understands them... ). And those are considered to be separate languages, so why shouldn't Scots be a language of its own, too?

As I've always thought, languages are supposed to be mutually incomprehensible before they can be considered separate, and all my relatives can be understood by English people, so I can't see the point in calling "Scots" a separate language - it just strikes me as daft.

Oh, and yes, Scotland & England were (politically) united in 1707...and I don't support independence either...It's all identity politics and I dislike that stuff.

by **vtmarik** on Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:06 pm

Stopper wrote:As I've always thought, languages are supposed to be mutually incomprehensible before they can be considered separate, and all my relatives can be understood by English people, so I can't see the point in calling "Scots" a separate language - it just strikes me as daft.

Oh, and yes, Scotland & England were (politically) united in 1707...and I don't support independence either...It's all identity politics and I dislike that stuff.

It is daft. It's more a dialect than a different language.

What's next, an Ebonics Wikipedia?