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10-09-2006, 06:42 AM
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I was fascinated by the Scots language in this official site of the Scottish Parliament.
Scottish Parliament
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(The fact that this is about Scots language is no sort of snide reference to other matters. My husband found this today on the net and we were both charmed by it.)
[This message has been edited by Janet Kenny (edited October 09, 2006).]
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10-09-2006, 07:02 AM
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Hi, Janet. I'm not sure why, but I want to thank you for posting this.
John
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10-09-2006, 07:15 AM
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I'm glad it warmed the heart John. My husband's a Dunedin man and grew up hearing many of these words.
Janet
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10-09-2006, 04:47 PM
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Yes.
If Harald hadn't fucked up at Hastings, Norwegian would have been the language of Eratosphere. I will never forgive him.
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10-09-2006, 05:07 PM
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Ye've tae blame the Danes at Stamford Bridge, Jon. And isnae Norwegian the language of Denmark?
All dialects grown from similar Germanic roots and granted or refused language status through political expediency (Guillaume le batard, Ivar Aassen, James I/VI etc).
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10-09-2006, 05:40 PM
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Might be the best post on the board!
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10-09-2006, 06:17 PM
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Yes, Peter, you're off course right. Harald Hardraade lost at Stamford, Harold the Saxon at Hastings ... But Harald was Norwegian, not Danish. And no, Norwegian is not Danish, although old New Norwegian fanatics still claim so.
I fart in their general direction etc. 
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10-10-2006, 02:04 AM
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The Scottish language is a delight to a norseman, who will recognize many of their words as nothing but the words of his own language but with an English pronunciation. Firth (fjord), bairn (barn), etc.
BTW: Did you know that back in the old days -- when an inch was the measure of a large man's thumb, a medium sized man's thumb and a small man's thumb next to each other, divided by three -- a Scottish inch was 10% larger than a Sassenach inch? And did you know (which I tried to explain to the Edinburgh pub staff to no avail) that a Scots pint is more than twice the size of a "regular" Sassenach pint?
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--Svein Olav
[This message has been edited by Svein Olav Nyberg (edited October 10, 2006).]
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10-10-2006, 02:28 AM
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Well, if you've enjoyed the Scots at the Parliament site, you might like the Contemporary Scots Poetry archive site.
Some good stuff there from our finest current dialect poets.
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10-10-2006, 02:32 AM
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Fantastic Rob. Thanks.
Janet
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