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Re: Unknown Language Identifier!

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Thursday, February 1, 2001, 3:12
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Danny Wier wrote:

>http://www.geocities.com/dawier > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]On >> Behalf Of Nik Taylor >> Sent: Monday, 29 January, 2001 9:48 PM >> To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU >> 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.