LL-L: "Language planning" (was "Language survival") LOWLANDS-L, 22.FEB.2001 (04) [E]

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From: Andy Eagle [Andy.Eagle at t-online.de]
Subject: LL-L: "Language survival"

Colin Wilson wrote:

> So-called "standard" English isn't synthetic, in that it isn't
> a synthesis - something that someone has put together, combining
> different components from different sources. "Standard" English is
> really just a formalised version of the dialect spoken by the
> English ruling class.

To a certain extent I agree with you but were not the prescriptive
introduction of Latin grammar features such as not ending a sentence with a
preposition, avoidance of split infinitives and the 'you and I' business
'synthetic'? Not to mention pseudo etymological spellings like the <s> in
island and the <b> in debt etc. What about the numerous vocabulary items
coined from Latin and Greek roots?

> As a description for a form of Scots derived in this way, I'd
> much prefer the term "composite Scots". I'm not convinced of the
> need for such a thing, although I do believe that there's a need
> for some basic standards, and I also believe there's a great need
> for an accepted generic Scots orthography.

I prefer the term General Scots.

Andy Eagle

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