Ay, I know… But it’s frequent that folk are ignorant about the language spoken here. It’s not strictly English.
If you’d checked out the link you’d see that it sounds like English a lot of the time, but is its own distinct branch, not just including the pronunciation but the words too.
I’m not talking about Gaelic here, but the the sort of English where you can call someone a fud whilst smiling at them because they don’t know what it means.
What I meant is that you replied directly to the meme but the meme is specifically about someone speaking English with a Scottish accent so saying “Scots is a different language” doesn’t make much sense in this context.
If you had said “Some people don’t realize it but there’s a language specific to Scotland that isn’t English with a Scottish accent” then that would have made more sense.
Honestly though, the difference between an accent/dialect and a language is both vague and artifical.
Norwegian dialects has 12 different variations for the word I (E/Eg/Ej/Æ/Æg/I/Jei/Je, and appearently 3 more), yet it’s still the same language
Scots is a language technically distinct from English.
the wiki entry
They mean English spoken with a Scottish accent
Ay, I know… But it’s frequent that folk are ignorant about the language spoken here. It’s not strictly English.
If you’d checked out the link you’d see that it sounds like English a lot of the time, but is its own distinct branch, not just including the pronunciation but the words too.
I’m not talking about Gaelic here, but the the sort of English where you can call someone a fud whilst smiling at them because they don’t know what it means.
What I meant is that you replied directly to the meme but the meme is specifically about someone speaking English with a Scottish accent so saying “Scots is a different language” doesn’t make much sense in this context.
If you had said “Some people don’t realize it but there’s a language specific to Scotland that isn’t English with a Scottish accent” then that would have made more sense.
Honestly though, the difference between an accent/dialect and a language is both vague and artifical. Norwegian dialects has 12 different variations for the word I (E/Eg/Ej/Æ/Æg/I/Jei/Je, and appearently 3 more), yet it’s still the same language
Too much troll shagging has fucked them up.
Closely enough related though, it’s as intelligible to english speakers as danish/swedish/norwegian is to each other
it’s just another case of “a language is a dialect with an army”
Is Auld Lang Syne an example of this?
But most people are talking about Scottish English
But don’t trust Wikipedia when it comes to Scots!