Re: Ping Dr Glenallen - re Glasgow

Whilst perusing Usenet on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:40:44 GMT, I read these
words from The Highlander <micheil@xxxxxxx> :

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:33:04 +0200, Karl-Heinz Efkemann
<KHEfkemann@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Am Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:21:04 +0100
schrieb Josiah Jenkins <josiah-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Whilst perusing Usenet on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:15:49 -0700, I read
these words from gyansorova@xxxxxxxxx :

On Jun 28, 8:36 am, gyansor...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
This house maintains that Weegie is not Scots at all but mearly a
dialect of English.

Discuss...Speaking for the motion will be Auld Bob.

My opening argument is that I sort of half agree but would add that
if this is indeed the case then hardly anybody in Scotland speaks
Scots any more- it is nearly dead.When does Patter become Scots?

What is spoken in Glasgow is not 'Scots' as I would generally
understand it. 'Scots' is spoken on the East Coast but it's not
the Doric which, to me, can be totally incomprehensible.
(Understandable, as all civilized people come from the West)

Glaswegian is basically English with words borrowed from
Gaelic, Scots, Doric and Gawd knows where else and, in
that respect, may possibly more representative of modern
Scottish usage of language.
what language do these people speak:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqpSu4jFJic

Are you going to break the news to him, jjj, or am I?

Well, I already did.

"Somewhere on the East Coast" was as far as I was
inclined to commit myself.

All rather, "kailyards and couthy coos, dung on yir bits
and 'knittit weir' to keep out the visitors"

One of these days, they may aspire to attain the degree
of civilization and cultural nirvana which we, on the
West Coast take for granted.

I post this in the hope that the Bimbo is making a good
recovery but not currently up-to-speed on postings in
the newsgroup.

-- jjj
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