Sorry
― Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 16:46 (two years ago)
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)
If it wasn’t spelled like that how would we know it was Scots and not just English?
― Blecch’s POLLero (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 December 2023 04:52 (two years ago)
Isn't it a bit trickier too because Scottish is not a transliteration so much as a parallel/sister language using the same characters.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 7 December 2023 04:56 (two years ago)
Yeah, it’s a closely related language so…
― Blecch’s POLLero (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 December 2023 04:57 (two years ago)
Somewhat vaguely analogous to the different languages that use Chinese characters. People who speak one can sort of understand part of what is written in the other, but not totally.
― Blecch’s POLLero (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 December 2023 05:12 (two years ago)
late seeing this thread so apologies if somebody's already mentioned this brilliant storyhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia🕸
― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 12:26 (two years ago)
Check it out: https://www.chrisgilmour.co.uk/scots/
― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 January 2024 01:13 (two years ago)
https://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/corpus-details/
― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 January 2024 01:16 (two years ago)
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone/kist/
― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 January 2024 01:17 (two years ago)
https://mapofstories.scot/the-story-of-the-laird-of-the-black-arts🕸/Ye ken?
― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 January 2024 16:02 (two years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhC267fHNZ0
― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 January 2024 16:23 (two years ago)
You'll still never convince me that's a distinct language and not just a dialect. I understand all of it for a start!
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 January 2024 16:30 (two years ago)
Some people seem to like this site: https://stooryduster.co.uk/
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 January 2024 17:21 (two years ago)
what counts as a dialect and what counts as a language is an extremely contentious question, for example Norwegian and Danish or Serbian and Croatian are mutually intelligible.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 15 January 2024 17:31 (two years ago)
i read a book once (about the precise date of the foundering of atlantis) which used as evidence that fact that basque and japanese are mutually intelligible
this is has never seemed to me very likely but i have never seen it disproven
― mark s, Monday, 15 January 2024 17:44 (two years ago)
That’s kind of batshit crazy- which means there must be plenty of people who want to believe!
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 January 2024 17:59 (two years ago)
One of the reasons Scots is extra-mutually intelligible with English is that the latter has influenced it so much over the centuries, but historically it came from some specific tribes of Angles that settled in Lothian iirc.
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 January 2024 18:01 (two years ago)
See also the way many Celtic languages, although less so for Scottish Gaelic, lost and continue to lose certain elements of phonology, such as nasalization.
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 January 2024 18:07 (two years ago)
Lothian? Maybe it was Berwickshire.
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 January 2024 18:18 (two years ago)
Hugh MacDiarmid made a heroic attempt to reinvent or reinvigorate Scots, raiding the dictionary, inventing new words, let me see if I can find a good summary.
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 January 2024 18:35 (two years ago)
The man who created the climate for modern literature in Scots was a radical Communist and nationalist called Christopher Murray Grieve, alias Hugh MacDiarmid. Grieve was a native Scots speaker from Langholm near the English border; single-handedly, he dragged Scots out of the couthy Kailyard to re-create it as a medium of poetry of international calibre. His method of doing this was novel: augmenting his native Scots with words from dictionaries, seeking words from different dialects and past ages of the language, and inventing words of his own when all else failed. What he in fact did was little different from Dante’s achievement in creating a national tongue out of the welter of Italian dialects at the beginning of the fourteenth century; MacDiarmid’s achievement may be recognised in the same terms some day, but for the moment an anglicised Scotland is still getting over the shock of the despised patois being taken seriously internationally once again.
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 January 2024 18:37 (two years ago)
One of the reasons Scots is extra-mutually intelligible with English is that the latter has influenced it so much over the centuries
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 11:49 (two years ago)
That website is a literal treasure trove - I could spend hours listening to this stuff...
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 January 2024 22:21 (two years ago)
Happy Burns Nicht!
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 January 2024 18:27 (two years ago)
Slàinthe Mhath!
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 January 2024 18:29 (two years ago)
Whit like?
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 January 2024 01:06 (two years ago)
Would any of you be interested in a dystopian sf novel written only in Scots?
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 January 2024 16:04 (two years ago)
Maybe I should post on the sf thread.
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 January 2024 16:06 (two years ago)
Yes please. Sea also 'Deep Wheel Orcadia', a verse novel written in the Scots/Norse Orkney dialect.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 29 January 2024 22:58 (two years ago)