https://mapofstories.scot/the-story-of-the-laird-of-the-black-arts/Ye ken?
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 05:25 (three years ago)
Peety me!
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 05:42 (three years ago)
Has Boaby Gillespie posted itt yet?
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 07:54 (three years ago)
Was hoping you would attend to that.
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 10:47 (three years ago)
Have been asked to read the Ode to a Haggis at a Scottish poetry night next week, partly, I think, because my accent is thought to be authentic enough. Excitedly working on my Burns voice, of course nothing like my actual one, as we speak.
Also didn't realise Aonghas MacNeacail had died - quite an important figure in modern Gaelic poetry and keeping the language alive culturally. Lovely obituary here: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/17/aonghas-macneacail-obituary
― verhexen, Friday, 20 January 2023 03:07 (three years ago)
Great stuff all around, thanks for posting!
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 January 2023 23:24 (three years ago)
https://learngaelic.scot/sol/episodes/ep.jsp?prog=1&clip=2Halò. Ciamar a tha sibh?Tha gu math.
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 January 2023 11:20 (three years ago)
Are you still doing this, verhexen?
― The Big Candy-O (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 January 2023 13:51 (three years ago)
I am! Managing about 20 minutes a day. It's quite exciting starting to hack away at a language I've always thought would be impenetrable despite the geographic proximity. I speak French and German but have only dared pick up little bits of other similar European languages so this is thrilling new territory.
First takeaways: so far the early vocab isn't as far from English/Scots as I thought, I can often find a rationale or a mnemonic for the nouns at least. Bit exhausted by all the pointing out Irn Bru and salted gannet and thanking Anndra and Ealasaid but I'm assuming that this is helping teach me something with repetition.
I haven't properly used Duolingo before and while I'm trusting the algorithm, I definitely would benefit from some instructions/explanations along the way. I tend to actually enjoy the grammar element of language learning and find the rules a fun hook that helps when confused. It feels odd to be able to form sentences now but still have to kind of guess why words add an "h" after the first letter sometimes, when you say "tapadh leat" and "tapadh leibh", etc. unless I look it up.
Might need to take up one of the resources you suggested above alongside the owl...
― verhexen, Saturday, 28 January 2023 16:53 (three years ago)
just realised ive been so focused on moving house i forgot abt burns night, maybe i shd celebrate tomorrow night, the o/g date (before the burns soc checked the actual parish records)
― mark s, Saturday, 28 January 2023 17:39 (three years ago)
Took a little staycation from these and did a little bit of Irish since one of the apps just added it. It’s close enough to be confusing, will probably have to refocus soon.
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 March 2023 14:03 (three years ago)
Coffee Break Gaelic has dropped. Think I will try the podcast but don’t want to pay for the full course.
― It’s Only Her Factory, Girl! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 00:54 (three years ago)
I always enjoyed this, which finds an appropriate form/dialect/register of Scots to match the demographic background of each author (that could be much more elegantly put, but you know what I mean):https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/4174Zwgyn2L.jpg
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 02:57 (three years ago)
That’s amazing, thanks! And the ebook is very cheap as well.
― It’s Only Her Factory, Girl! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 06:14 (three years ago)
You might also be interested in my grandfather's Lallans version of the Book of Ruth from the early 70s.
https://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/document/?documentid=691
― Composition 40b (Stew), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 08:19 (three years ago)
Tintin albums in Scots:
https://tintinscots.com
Asterix albums in Scots:
http://www.mfitt.co.uk/asterix.html
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 08:48 (three years ago)
The Asterix ones don't look very Scots tbh.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 10:23 (three years ago)
A friend of mine from Aberdeen (so it's Doric) just posted this after Scotland beat Norway with two goals in the closing minutes.
Hud at Halland you gypit looking monstrosity
― Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Saturday, 17 June 2023 18:30 (two years ago)
Thinking about "an aw" . . . "country" people here in the southern U.S. often use "an' all" to finish a sentence. Surely this is a carryover from Scots, as that ethnic heritage is pretty heavy in this region.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 17 June 2023 18:34 (two years ago)
https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/54304?l=en
― Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 October 2023 12:33 (two years ago)
Chan eil deur air an t-sùil ged a tha an cù a' rànaich.
That website is a literal treasure trove - I could spend hours listening to this stuff...
― verhexen, Thursday, 5 October 2023 17:39 (two years ago)
I didn’t even find out how to listen to other stuff yet
― Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 October 2023 19:33 (two years ago)
So there is word “ist” in Gaelic that means “hush” or “quiet” and of course there seem to be several in Scots, “hish” and “wheesht” being two, along with their myriad variant spellings.
― Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 12:42 (two years ago)
Haud yer wheesht.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 12:48 (two years ago)
Wiest Tom, I didna mean to vex ye.
― Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:25 (two years ago)
Tam, surely?
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 15:47 (two years ago)
Taffy
― Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 16:46 (two years ago)
Sorry
Tammie
― Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 18:28 (two years ago)
Tammie a’thing
Tammie-nid-nod
― Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 18:29 (two years ago)
Don’t know if this has been linked yet:https://www.scots-online.org/mobile/dictionary/read_dictionary.php?letter=N&CurPage=13
― Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 18:31 (two years ago)
Tam o’ tae end
― Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 18:35 (two years ago)
Nickie-tam
ding doun Tantallon
― Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 18:48 (two years ago)
https://groups.google.com/g/soc.culture.scottish/c/89WnR8uLFQ8
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 October 2023 01:30 (two years ago)
https://www3.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/corpus/seanfhaclan/Gaelic_Proverbs_TD_Macdonald.doc
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 October 2023 01:33 (two years ago)
http://bydanfree.blogspot.com/2009/07/some-gaelic-proverbs-is-buaine-bladh-na.html?m=1
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 October 2023 20:16 (two years ago)
The New Testament in Scots James M mentioned is incredible.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 November 2023 00:41 (two years ago)
As is Stew’s granddad’s Book of Ruth.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 November 2023 00:44 (two years ago)
There’s a lot of Dòtaman content in the Duolingo course.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 01:11 (two years ago)
Feeling the mission creep pull of sibling Irish.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 25 November 2023 17:49 (two years ago)
Dòtaman content off the charts today.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 16:23 (two years ago)
Einnsean, tractar agus bhan… tha greis bho nach cuala sinn sin #DIYleDonnie!Music to our ears - Dòtaman has still got it! pic.twitter.com/BHHpRFGreN— BBC ALBA (@bbcalba) June 15, 2017
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 21:21 (two years ago)
Là Naomh Anndra sona dhut!
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 December 2023 00:37 (two years ago)
Cuid ye repeat that, please? Cuid ye spik a bittie slawer, please? I dinnae unnerstaun.
― Blecch’s POLLero (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 December 2023 17:37 (two years ago)
Say it slower ye fookin bawbag.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 11:50 (two years ago)
Fookin? Never!
― Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 11:53 (two years ago)
how much of the perceived “impenetrability” of languages could be defeated simply, by better transliteration? Like how much of shit of “mysteriousness” is extended by spelling it “cuid”? and obv it is in BOTH directions— “cuid” is better than “could” to my ear, but… here we are. coming out of a lot of fam scotsness, i’m like, gmafb. same thing even if jumpin barriers into, say welsh— a lot is made more ridiculous just by spellin rules. am i wrong or just infinitely redundant of known complaints ? with me it’s equal chance either way. but brits musta been complainin of this forever?
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 22:53 (two years ago)