| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 11, 2004, 8:25 |
John Cowan wrote:>Costentin Cornomorus scripsit: > > > >>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! >> >> > >You probably couldn't understand basilectal Geordie either. >Yup, that's true. A southern English person has trouble. A forn'er would be completely lost.