Re: dialectal diversity in English

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From: "Eamon Graham" <robertg@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: dialectal diversity in English


> Chris Bates wrote:
> >
> > I know the difference between gaelic (learned a bit once) and english,
> > and I'm talking about a dialect of english not gaelic. Its possible that
> > they could be bilingual and that that could make their english even more
> > difficult to understand but I am not getting gaelic and english
> > confused. And I do not mean african creoles either.
> >
>
> There's a difference between Scots and Scottish Gaelic; Scots is a
> Germanic language, sister to Modern English and undergoing heavy
> influence from Modern English, but nonetheless a different
> language.
This is debateable.  While I agree with you, basically, it's close enough to
English to possibly be called a language.