Re: CHAT: Multi-Lingos

>From: callanish <callanish@...>
>Subject: Multi-Lingos
>Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:00:17 -0400
Saell To'mas :)

>I knew a person (a Scots speaker) at university who went to a minority
>languages conference and told me that he had a conversation with a couple
>of
>the Frisian delegates, in which he spoke Scots and the Frisians spoke
>Frisian, and he claimed they managed to get quite a bit across to each
>other.
>I wasn't an eyewitness to this, however.
I think I need an explanation on this Scots language. I would have guessed
that were some kind of Gaelic, but that's called 'Scots Gaelic', right? So
Scots is a lingo too different from English to be a mere dialect or just
accent? And close enough to Frisian for some comprehensibility!? Tell me
more about this, please.

>I say we should make everyone in the world learn Icelandic and make that
>the
>"official Germanic language of the world" ;-)
Hehe. Icelandic should be the working language of Neo-Nazis International
(if that exists); it's the Germanic übermensch "pure" language that all the
chauvinists love. Rasmus Rask, the great 19th century Danish linguist,
claimed he learnt Icelandic "to learn to think" (it's the old "classical
languages are more logical" dogma). I, personally, am sick of
linguo-centrism in Iceland and the indoctrination present in our school
system.

Let's leave the world out of it, but if there were an association for
Germanic languages (and co-ordination there between), I'd fully expect
Icelandic to be held in high regard there, however. Its constructions would
make a good model for any chauvinists interested in "purifying" their
tongues, but I wouldn't take things further than that :)

>PS. What's "Thomas" in Icelandic, by the way?
Well, just "Tómas", pronounced ['t^houmas] (in very accurate
phonetication).

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