LL-L "Scots" 2002.03.28 (09) [E]

[R. F. Hahn]

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From: "Colin Wilson" <lcwilson at starmail.com>
Subject: LL-L Scots" 2002.03.28 (03) [E]

Sylvain Lavoie  wrote:
>To be sure, I asked a real Scottish citizen, erudite in languages, what
>it the matter.

Would Sylvain Lavoie  care to identify this person, and his/her
credentials?

>"A people called the Scots *came* from the north of Ireland
>
>However, the Angles and Saxons *invaded*..

(my emphasis).
The bias here is so obvious it hardly need to be pointed out.

>So you see, the language which is called "Scots" today is not the
>language which was spoken by the "Scots" who came to Scotland from
>Ireland and gave the country its name.  Very confusion."

They didn't give they country the name "Scotland". The name they
gave it was "Alba"; and their name for one of their own people was
"Gaidheal".
The name "Scot" was given by the Romans and no-one knows how it was
derived. The name "Scots" for the language, comes from its time as the
state
language of a (multi-ethnic) nation called Scotland.

>I think all this confusion is part of an ethnocide without blood aiming
>gaelic language
>and civilization by trying to convince long time assimilated Scots their
>ancestors were
>not gaelics.

This is absurd. Gaelic is dying out because many Gaelic speakers
don't pass it on to their children. There are a variety of reasons why
this happens, but confusion about ancestry is not one of them.

By the way, in case Sylvain Lavoie  hadn't noticed, official policy
nowadays is to promote Gaelic, whereas Scots is (de facto) still
suppressed.

Colin Wilson.

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