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You can all read Scottish.
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Sat Dec 02, 2006 6:07 pmby happysadfun
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
Posted:
Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:29 pmby Backglass
If it's not Scottish, it's CRAP!
Posted:
Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:38 pmby s.xkitten
nice pic..its you, right?
Posted:
Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:45 pmby Backglass
s.xkitten wrote:nice pic..its you, right?
Yes. I am Mike Myers.
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Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:28 amby MeDeFe
Of course we can read scottish.
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Sun Dec 03, 2006 6:38 pmby Stopper
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.
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Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:34 amby MeDeFe
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?
Posted:
Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:27 amby for dummies
read the latest economist article.
http://www.economist.com/world/britain/ ... id=8353213
Scottish independance!!!!! (hopefully)
Posted:
Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:30 amby MeDeFe
It's been some time since they last had it, right?
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Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:57 pmby Stopper
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.
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Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:06 pmby vtmarik
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?
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Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:03 pmby happysadfun
No, it's different in linguistics, a bit.
Were you the one who said that on the Sco.Wikipedia homepage? Cause someone said almost that exact thing.
Re: You can all read Scottish.
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Tue Jul 25, 2017 8:00 pmby Thorthoth
Of course this thread is referring to Scots (AKA: Scottish English).
There is also (Scottish) Gaelic, which is quite a different beastie.