Re: The whole dialect business

On 23 Nov 2005 11:45:33 -0800, "Iain" <iain_inkster@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>I thought long and hard about this, and concede that the Scots dialect,
>if spoken in its entirety, is a language.
>
>But it hardly is. Sometimes Dutch is more similar to Standard English
>that Robert Burns, but although that sort of vocab' lives on, it is not
>as dense nor prolific as once it was.
>
>In demographics, the odd person who says "wee" or "ken" is counted as
>speaking the Scots dialect.
>
>I would say rhyming slang is a language if it was applied to every
>second noun, but it is only ever spoken piecemeal.
>
>Ye ken? Even the prepositions and common words perfectly twin Standard
>English words in their usage. Scots' only real grammatical difference
>in terms of validity rather than idiomacy is probably "for to", as in
>Middle English.
>
>~Iain
>
On the contrary there are many more, including the instantly obvious
difference between the English "I won't" and "I wouldn't" versus the
Scots "I'll not" and "I'd not" and all the variations thereof.

Murchadh
.

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