Scots Language Wikipedia

[MacBean]

http://sco.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

[TheOfficialBren]

Awesome.

[neloon]

Awesome.

Not the word I would use!

Alan

[kilted scholar]

Not the word I would use!

Alan

I agree.

[TheOfficialBren]

Good grief. I appreciate the cultural relevance.
Get off my toes.

[ThistleDown]

They can't you're standing on them.

[Chas]

I don't understand. Are some of you trying to imply that Scots is not a language? Well, if so, you would be wrong.

If you are arguing about spelling, that, of course, is all debatable. But the opinions expressed here, on the subject, are no more valid than those expressed there.

So, guys, what do you mean?

Regards

Chas

[McElmurry]

I am certainly no expert on the subject but the writing on the site in question does not resemble the little bit of Burns poetry I have attempted to wade through nor the odd bit of Scots dialect used on XMTS, to my admittedly untrained eye.


EDIT

The site appears to use phonetic spelling

Here at Wikipaedia it's recommendit that fowk uises "tradeetional" pan-dialect spellins. Awtho thir isna sae strict as in Inglis we ettle tae come up wi writin that's easy tae read an can be soondit bi readers in thair ain dialect. Ae thing tae mynd is that maist fowk that kens better disna uise the apologetic apostrophe onymair. Mair oot ower evyte slang in an encyclopaedia.

[Chas]

There is Scots, Lallans and the Doric. And here we get a lot of English written in a phoney Scots accent.

I believe that Burns wrote in dialect.

Scots IS a language.

Regards

Chas

[McElmurry]

There is Scots, Lallans and the Doric. And here we get a lot of English written in a phoney Scots accent.

I believe that Burns wrote in dialect.

Scots IS a language.

Regards

Chas

OK, so what do you call what is presented on the site in question?