▲ 539 ▼ And they say English is bad (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Godric@lemmy.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 54 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 63 points 2 years ago* (3 children) For non-speakers, it's kind of like reading Scots as a monolingual English speaker. https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_leid permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 28 points 2 years ago (1 child) Did they ever fix the issue that an American teen used a hilariously bad interpretation of the Scots language to write thousands of articles on the Scots wiki? https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/scots-wikipedia-language-american-teenager.html https://old.reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments/ig9jia/ive_discovered_that_almost_every_single_article/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* Only partially, unfortunately. There aren't a lot of people who speak full on Scots, the majority of Scotland speaks a dialect of English with a handful of Scots vocabulary now. It's an endangered language. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago Funny. If you say the words out loud they're much easier to understand. permalink fedilink source parent [–] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago It's like reading a Nac Mac Feegle speaking. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 28 points 2 years ago (1 child) Did they ever fix the issue that an American teen used a hilariously bad interpretation of the Scots language to write thousands of articles on the Scots wiki? https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/scots-wikipedia-language-american-teenager.html https://old.reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments/ig9jia/ive_discovered_that_almost_every_single_article/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* Only partially, unfortunately. There aren't a lot of people who speak full on Scots, the majority of Scotland speaks a dialect of English with a handful of Scots vocabulary now. It's an endangered language. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* Only partially, unfortunately. There aren't a lot of people who speak full on Scots, the majority of Scotland speaks a dialect of English with a handful of Scots vocabulary now. It's an endangered language. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago Funny. If you say the words out loud they're much easier to understand. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago It's like reading a Nac Mac Feegle speaking. permalink fedilink source parent
