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] Date Posted: 01:04:05 01/15/05 Sat http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/language/scots/index.htm [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (London) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 01:12:16 01/15/05 Sat God help Scotland if the rest of the world judges Scots by the absurd gesturings of the Scottish parliament. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: nt [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15:10:20 01/15/05 Sat [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> Subject: I think this must be some kind of joke! | |
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Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 10:46:20 01/15/05 Sat [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: Either that, or it's a Hansard entry for one of Jack McConnell's speeches. | |
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Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 10:55:30 01/15/05 Sat [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Trixta (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15:21:56 01/15/05 Sat Oh fer cryin' out loud. I'm all for recognition of dialects but, like Rabbie Burns or Irvine Welsh, I jis cannae unnerstan it! It sounds more like Scottie than Scots and I'm wondering just how much some numptie was paid to write it. Given that the people who may actually understand the dialect can hardly read (1 in 5 adults is illiterate in Scotland) - what was the point? Bet you it was the SNP! What next? BBC News wi' pure mental subtitles fer the weegies? Or how about Chewin' the Fat's BBC News with translations for the Neds? [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: Are Australians and those from Suffolk brothers? | |
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Author: Ben.M(UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 20:44:05 01/15/05 Sat "I reckin our guvvemen shed do the same thing. Plennya Orstraylyans carn unnerstan bloody forrin English spellin. Goodonya, Scotlan." Whenever I go abroad and meet an American the first question is always a variation on the following; "Hey, whereabouts from Australia are you" [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> Subject: I don't know the reason for the similarity - I'd never heard of it before you mentioned it | |
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Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 20:54:30 01/15/05 Sat Does what I wrote sound like it could be spoken by someone from Suffolk? No one has ever asked me if I'm from Suffolk, by the way. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> Subject: Well Suffolk isn't as well known as Australia. | |
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Author: Ben.M(UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 10:37:53 01/16/05 Sun [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> Subject: Carn see nuthin rong withit meself | |
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Author: Ian (Orstraylya) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:03:57 01/15/05 Sat I reckin our guvvemen shed do the same thing. Plennya Orstraylyans carn unnerstan bloody forrin English spellin. Goodonya, Scotlan. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: Meks me wunner wha a bothert tae learn tae reed an rit! | |
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Author: Dave (Scoatlan) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:15:36 01/15/05 Sat [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (London) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 17:42:34 01/15/05 Sat If yew were Sith Ifrican naiwan wid hev bothid to tich yew to reed inniway, inliss yew were a rooinekke swoin. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Kevin (U.S.) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 19:04:51 01/15/05 Sat Did all of you guys drop in IQ levels a couple of points? Or are we just having fun? [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: Pride and prejudice | |
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Author: jANE aUSTEN [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 19:33:53 01/15/05 Sat "Did all of you guys drop in IQ levels a couple of points? Or are we just having fun?" Oh look at em foreigners, cant write theer English roight. ****ing bigots! [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 19:49:38 01/15/05 Sat My ancestors were Scots, so the suggestion of bigotry sounds like nonsense to me. The whole idea of the Federal Commonwealth Society is that we don't see each other as foreigners. Whether we be from Queensland, Scotland, New Zealand or Newfoundland, we are all part of the same family. I was merely pointing out that spelling Australian English phonetically and using slightly different grammar and vocabulary does not make it a distinct language. I find it comical, is all. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> Subject: I am proud but I'm not prejudiced | |
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Author: Ed Harris (London) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 20:03:19 01/15/05 Sat Even if you speak The Queen's English it is not spelled phonetically, so why attempt to spell it phonetically for other dialects? Are we so patronising as to suggest that people outside MFB (that's Mayfair, Fitzrovia, Bloomsbury to you scumbag provincials) are so stupid that they can not be expected to understand language which is not "spelled the way it sounds" as we can? In my opinion, that is the height of prejudice: insisting that people who speak regional dialects are unable to spell properly is narrow-minded and snobbish. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 20:11:50 01/15/05 Sat Nah mate - you're missing the point. We were each having a laugh at our own stereotypical dialects, no-one else’s. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: URA [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 20:33:23 01/15/05 Sat "We were each having a laugh at our own stereotypical dialects, no-one else’s." Jockbrit. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 20:37:13 01/15/05 Sat ...for reasons which should be perfectly obvious, as I am a member of this society. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |