Re: Unknown Language Identifier!

On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Danny Wier wrote:

>http://www.geocities.com/dawier
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]On
>> Behalf Of Nik Taylor
>> Sent: Monday, 29 January, 2001 9:48 PM
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>> Subject: Re: Unknown Language Identifier!
>
>> Danny Wier wrote:
>> > no Quenya-Sindarin? no Tsolyani? I hope they're planning to add
>> languages...
>>
>> Well, they apparently have, because I've gotten things like Scots (is
>> that Scots Gaelic or just plain Scots?), and that's not on the list.
>
>That would be Scots, as in Scots English.
Oh? And is _that_ the "English spoken wi' a Scottish accent" or is
it the "Scots leid spoken wi a Doric lilt"?

>It's not listed in the language
>reference, but since I inputed some archaic Modern English, it gave the
>results of English, Scots, Old English and Anglo-Saxon (I thought the last
>two were the same language?)
I thought so too, and that AS is simply an older term for what
is now usually termed OE.

Padraic.