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<blockquote data-quote="gingergenius" data-source="post: 293929"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (shtove @ Dec 16 2009, 11:21 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=427460" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p>Don't go there!</p><p></p><p>Northern Ireland has a running comedy show, where politicians vie for EU funding for two languages. In one corner there's gaelic, and in the other Ulster scots, an impenetrable dialect of english. Gaelic - also spoken in Scotland - gets plenty of funds because it's a language other than english and is in danger of dying out. But it's spoken by Irish nationalists, and the British unionists in Ireland decided they had to assert their counter-entitlement by applying for the same kind of funding for Ulster scots, which is only spoken by people who are annoyed that not everybody speaks english.</p><p></p><p>I've just lost the will to type. Here's a taster:</p><p><a href="http://www.scotchirish.net/Ulster%20Scots.php4" target="_blank">http://www.scotchirish.net/Ulster%20Scots.php4</a></p><p>[/b]</p></blockquote><p></p><p>Scots is a dialect, not a language. It's like cockney or jamaican patwa or all the other types of English that are almost incomprehensible.</p><p></p><p>Even if you say it is a language, its from the same root as English. There's not really much point in preserving it because we already have one overseas language dominating. At least the Celtic languages are native.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="gingergenius, post: 293929"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (shtove @ Dec 16 2009, 11:21 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=427460']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> Don't go there! Northern Ireland has a running comedy show, where politicians vie for EU funding for two languages. In one corner there's gaelic, and in the other Ulster scots, an impenetrable dialect of english. Gaelic - also spoken in Scotland - gets plenty of funds because it's a language other than english and is in danger of dying out. But it's spoken by Irish nationalists, and the British unionists in Ireland decided they had to assert their counter-entitlement by applying for the same kind of funding for Ulster scots, which is only spoken by people who are annoyed that not everybody speaks english. I've just lost the will to type. Here's a taster: [url="http://www.scotchirish.net/Ulster%20Scots.php4"]http://www.scotchirish.net/Ulster%20Scots.php4[/url] [/b][/quote] Scots is a dialect, not a language. It's like cockney or jamaican patwa or all the other types of English that are almost incomprehensible. Even if you say it is a language, its from the same root as English. There's not really much point in preserving it because we already have one overseas language dominating. At least the Celtic languages are native. [/QUOTE]
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