tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post6758591288188078269..comments2024-03-29T09:02:27.112+00:00Comments on SCOT goes POP!: Deny a shared language, deny a shared history, deny a shared culture…deny who you are
James Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-75864292649990039932017-09-10T09:58:26.581+01:002017-09-10T09:58:26.581+01:00Interestingly, in Northern Ireland, its the unioni...Interestingly, in Northern Ireland, its the unionist community who are fighting to have (Ulster) Scots recognised as a languageRuairidh Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14391807517261055941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-67608943383846066362017-09-08T16:01:44.212+01:002017-09-08T16:01:44.212+01:00Amazing that someone grew up in Glasgow and never ...Amazing that someone grew up in Glasgow and never spoke Scots. Must have been difficult in the school playground.neepheidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01774722822580154060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-40564639036683078062017-09-08T13:30:45.119+01:002017-09-08T13:30:45.119+01:00Different anon here, replying to anon!
I don'...Different anon here, replying to anon! <br />I don't feel that language should be a political issue. Look at the progress made in Wales in preserving and indeed reviving their language and Wales is much more "pro union" than Scotland. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-1212491788860527712017-09-08T12:27:41.603+01:002017-09-08T12:27:41.603+01:00What a good little operative you are.What a good little operative you are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-24487876255876887262017-09-08T09:28:12.782+01:002017-09-08T09:28:12.782+01:00I didn't know about the EU "less used&quo...I didn't know about the EU "less used" language status - if that's what it is in English - it seems a bit odd, given that there are many more Scots speakers than there are Gaelic speakers.<br /><br />I just wish I could write Scots with any degree of fluency at all.Ed Freemanhttp://mzeesaruni.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-12199862238825365492017-09-08T09:21:38.292+01:002017-09-08T09:21:38.292+01:00Thanks for that, David! I have become unbearably s...Thanks for that, David! I have become unbearably smug as a result. I think I've managed to reply to everybody now - I wrote the one about not being able to handle the technology first. It still keeps demanding that I prove I'm not a robot and accusing me of making suspicious moves and making me identify road signs, but - success! <br /><br />Japanese - now there's a difficult one. Is it really a language isolate? I know very little at all about Asiatic languages. Ed Freemanhttp://mzeesaruni.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-89337472592952878802017-09-08T09:14:59.425+01:002017-09-08T09:14:59.425+01:00Yes, WGD is generally right on the money when it c...Yes, WGD is generally right on the money when it comes to language. Actually, I can't think of an exception to that rule. His explanation of the difference between independentista and nacionalista in Spanish is well worth taking to heart - I was corrected on that one myself many years ago now, in Barcelona not long after Franco died. The memory is reinforced by the sight of the many parties of Guardia Civil guys in the funny hats walking around the Ramblas in threes looking paranoid - and clasping their machine guns tightly.Ed Freemanhttp://mzeesaruni.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-35345091787031438182017-09-08T09:05:25.860+01:002017-09-08T09:05:25.860+01:00Never, ever spoken Scots in your life? What a sham...Never, ever spoken Scots in your life? What a shame! Do you speak any other European languages, or is it only the Scottish ones that you object to?Ed Freemanhttp://mzeesaruni.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-16699693465808422302017-09-08T08:52:28.864+01:002017-09-08T08:52:28.864+01:00I'm writing to thank James for posting my scre...I'm writing to thank James for posting my screed, and for your encouraging comments. As you may have guessed, languages are my thing...<br /><br />I do believe I'm going to try again to set up my own blog, and this time not let the technology defeat me! That's the same technology that I was not able to get my head round well enough to reply individually to your kind posts and comments.<br /><br />I particularly appreciate the ill-informed and ill-mannered mouthings of the trollish contingent. I seem to have touched a nerve, proving that I am on the right track. I take such abuse as a badge of honour, so thank you!<br />Ed Freemanhttp://mzeesaruni.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-59671078391881899842017-09-07T21:09:40.709+01:002017-09-07T21:09:40.709+01:00It's weel-seen whit's needit is a Scots la...It's weel-seen whit's needit is a Scots language act tae be brocht in at Holyrood. Aw the recent fash ower whuther Scots is a leid in its aim richt wis pit tae bed therty year ago whan it wis declared a lesser yaised language bi the EU. The time is ripe for the auld tung tae see the licht of day. Ower tae the Scots pairliament cultur commatee. ramstamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10764651142754131538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-76891418494669242862017-09-07T17:34:27.054+01:002017-09-07T17:34:27.054+01:00I'm particularly thinking of media people-like...I'm particularly thinking of media people-like weather forecasters-who say for instance Locharber or worse Lockarber. Even some Scots are doing this because they copy the dominant southern English dialect. Northern english dont do this and they maintainn their own pronouciation. Gary, an elgin loon has been known to say Glarsgow!<br /> Sasannachnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-58175061261337111502017-09-07T17:10:57.898+01:002017-09-07T17:10:57.898+01:00Bishop Wishart you are a fud. Your club is bunch o...Bishop Wishart you are a fud. Your club is bunch of pale faced religious fascist nonentities.... GIRUYGWC2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-85895357172133693192017-09-07T14:13:37.933+01:002017-09-07T14:13:37.933+01:00No, I don't get to deny it to others - but I d...No, I don't get to deny it to others - but I do get to take issue with the assertion that it is something we all share and part of 'who I am'. It clearly isn't either of those things. I also get to take issue with state promotion of the language, in schools, using taxpayers' money (my money). Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-75384279582828618872017-09-07T12:14:46.930+01:002017-09-07T12:14:46.930+01:00Thanks. Will do.Thanks. Will do.Graemeo Rabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10833975825240864656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-39931433868022178162017-09-07T01:44:28.345+01:002017-09-07T01:44:28.345+01:00WATP FTP GSTQ that's real kulcha for yeWATP FTP GSTQ that's real kulcha for yeGWC2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-37748010001853242672017-09-07T01:42:23.262+01:002017-09-07T01:42:23.262+01:00WATP FTP GSTQWATP FTP GSTQGWC2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-11543255588826175822017-09-06T22:58:51.499+01:002017-09-06T22:58:51.499+01:00We are special. Vote Yes next time to join the clu...We are special. Vote Yes next time to join the club. Jock Wisharthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13244869032824390612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-11708903753322238932017-09-06T21:04:32.061+01:002017-09-06T21:04:32.061+01:00You do write well and tell a good story David. How...You do write well and tell a good story David. However real life does go on out there in the country. Inspite of your writing you are a narrowback nat si and will not influence future politics. You have the same flaw as all nat sis have worldwide, you think you are special...Up yer kilt auld yinGWC2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-28144989679813781412017-09-06T20:55:38.166+01:002017-09-06T20:55:38.166+01:00Kultyur is a shared Uk British entity. Boozing and...Kultyur is a shared Uk British entity. Boozing and wife beating...Language is a communication between people and one tax subsidised language is sufficient. Anything else is a hobby.GWC2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-45895626684999163712017-09-06T20:29:15.860+01:002017-09-06T20:29:15.860+01:00PS Agus post scriptum, chaps/loons: Hamish/James/J...PS Agus post scriptum, chaps/loons: Hamish/James/Jaime avec et agus Edouard/Eduardo/Edward named cross-culturally and linguistically in all your JACOB'S COAT rainbow hues singularly human: Trust you have your own blog-spot/site, Edward?<br /><br />If not, you should as you have a moral and scientific duty to publish one (just as James does in picking up the gauntlet of free-thinking, scientific enquiry mandated to be shared against the flat-earther odds).<br /><br />Trust James Bey will keep us updated apropos your outlet, Edward Pasha.<br /><br />Encore, fantastique<br />DAVIDO (as per standard Japanese pronunciation - wonderful stuff this thing that is human communication)Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02975588480290026016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-44279598825242436962017-09-06T19:57:01.574+01:002017-09-06T19:57:01.574+01:00A tour de force.
A keeper and one to be shared wi...A tour de force.<br /><br />A keeper and one to be shared widely (have already started doing so and shall go on doing so including with my multi-ethnic student body at an American university branch campus here in Tokyo. Trust this severely pisses off pseudo monoglots with AngloBrit comprador pretentions like GWC2 of the singular or plural cringe identity/identities).<br /><br />Is GWC2 that Oxbridge faux scholar deliciously referred to above who trotted off with his or her academic tail between his or her legs from Alba back to mongrel Beurla Engerlund with its fur coat and no knickers RP and ""High" RP taught pretensions which continue to serve them so ill within the body of the kirk of global humanity? <br /><br />That mongrel "Eden" wherein the aforesaid dialects have replaced the Norman come later Anglo Norman variants superimposed on earlier linguistic sub-strata as stranglingly articulated by the Anglo "keigo" (Germano-Greek-catch all artificial court lingo currently perceived as de rigueur by the "contemporary", self-styled think tank wallahs - I would not buy a basic cup of tea from them never mind buy in to their verbal diaorrhea as served up by the establishment propaganda outlets variegated but boasting of homogeneity).<br /><br />An outstanding guest piece, James. And thank you so much, Edward (dinna fash about the cur-like, feral comments).<br /><br />What a splendid innovation to your blog, James, much as I revere it for your traditional scientific analysis of polling.<br /><br />Cracking stuff, gentlemen.<br /><br />Kindest<br />David/Dauvit/DaibhidhDavidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02975588480290026016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-35233168952024664622017-09-06T18:37:22.909+01:002017-09-06T18:37:22.909+01:00Thanks for this info - wd have been useful to me m...Thanks for this info - wd have been useful to me many years ago, when challenged over this as translation of French "on ne peut que.....".Cairnallochynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-36364403829396464112017-09-06T18:33:35.855+01:002017-09-06T18:33:35.855+01:00I applaud your intellectual curiosity about other ...I applaud your intellectual curiosity about other languages, but if I might offer a suggestion, you should Probably try and Stop capitalising Random words in Your Sentences.<br /><br />it looks Weird.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-78478932090986412032017-09-06T18:01:33.517+01:002017-09-06T18:01:33.517+01:00@Cairnallochy: 'One can but…' is very Engl...@Cairnallochy: 'One can but…' is very English. I was brought up on it in the literature and conversation around me, post war, by an English family in London. I'm shocked!Celiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04955594918361605577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-69287230115896290852017-09-06T17:55:20.065+01:002017-09-06T17:55:20.065+01:00Tha mi nam Shasannach cuideachd! And while nothing...Tha mi nam Shasannach cuideachd! And while nothing would ever induce me to go back to England, it wouldn't occur to me to complain about the invisible r or the pronunciation of Happisburgh.Kate McLarenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14949038181724708553noreply@blogger.com