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NATLANG: Scary Document

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Saturday, April 5, 2003, 21:39
This is an official Scots translation of a Scottish Parliament report:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/official_report/cttee/educ-03/edr03-02-vol
01-scots.pdf

It looks like some kind of Bastard child of English and Scots, replacing
words that aren't in Scots with completely unaltered english.

eg.
"In repone tae objective 2.1.2 a feasibility study intil an institute for
the Leids o Scotland, tochered by the Carnegie trust for the universities o
Scotland is noo roadit.  Amang the ettles o the study is:"

I have to say though, Scots is an interesting language.  More Germanic than
English.

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