Takhisis

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  • Traitorfish
    I don't know, you got some of the thicker Geordie or Pitmatic dialects, they're about as close to Scots as they are to Standard English. I saw an interviews with some old miners from County Durham that was subtitled, and that's a treatment usually reserved for the Scots. :lol:
    Traitorfish
    It's the whole British = English = South-Eastern = SErn Middle-Class logic. Northern, West Country, etc. dialects game the same treatment, but it's a particular pain for Scots because it really is a distinct language with a pretty decent body of literature, and even in Scotland most people never really delve deeper into than a few token Burns poems at school (which are mostly pretty Anglicised to begin with, and so don't really help the not-just-a-funny-accent case).
    Traitorfish
    You probably got lucky there! The whole business is pretty damn tiresome, especially for a red. ;)

    I meant that people think Scots is a deformed English, not Gaelic. The whole conviction that any other Anglic dialect than Received Pronunciation is proles mucking it up, rather than just another way of talking.
    Traitorfish
    Honestly, I don't even know what the SNP are for, really, other than a protest vote. :crazyeye:
    A Scots revival can actually go somewhere, mind, while Gaelic is pretty much a dead language for most of the country. You just have to knock folk out of this notion that it's a deformed prole-English (which is where the "class struggle" stuff comes in, á la Hamish Henderson. :D).

    And if you're a Catholic, you should know what I mean! Or did you not have the good fortune to grow up in Old Firm Country? :p
    Traitorfish
    Eh, I prefer Scots as a national language. Gaelic always feels like a borrowed romanticism to me- something the SNP can point to when they're trying to make a point, but don't want to have to commit to a genuine scheme of revival like the Irish and Welsh. ('Sides, the Scots revival has a class struggle element which reds like me find appealing. ;))

    And I'll blame the English for whatever I like. I'm Catholic: it's what we do. :p
    Traitorfish
    "Englishman"? An wi ye speakin thon Inglis lied like a bluidy Sassenach? Dinnae gie me yer pish! :p
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