| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 11, 2004, 18:57 |
Costentin Cornomorus wrote:>--- Joe <joe@...> wrote: > > > >>>If we must insist that Scots is a dialect, >>> >>> >>then >> >> >>>it is a dialect that is only barely >>>understandable to a speaker of the language it >>> >>> >>is >> >> >>>suppsed to be a mere dialect of! >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Well, that depends on the dialect of the >>speaker in question, doesn't it? >> >> > >Well, yes. I had hoped I wouldn't have to spell >that bit out! Let's see: ...understandable to a >monoglot speaker of the language it is supposed >to be a mere dialect of, say for example American >English. Better? > > >But some dialects of English have characteristics borrowed(or of common descent) from Scots, so even a monoglot speaker of Scottish English, or maybe even Northern English, could understand Scots fairly well.>Padraic. > > > >
| Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |