Re: [OT] Re: the Ethnologue

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Thu Nov 30 2000 - 18:35:11 EST


John Cowan replied:

> Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>
> > To that I would add Glaswegian. When watching the
> > Scots-produced mystery shows that show up on PBS in the United
> > States on occasion, my wife and I often turn to each other
> > in bafflement and say, "Subtitles, please."
>
> Scots is a separate language! If you understand anything at all
> it's by a happy accident. (There is of course Scots-flavored
> English as well, which is another matter.)

I was, of course, referring to Scots (alleged) English, and not
to Scots Gaelic.

--Ken



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