LL-L "Language use" 2004.07.23 (04) [E]

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From: Global Moose Translations <globalmoose at t-online.de>
Subject: LL-L "Language use" 2004.07.23 (01) [E]

Tom wrote:

> I recently visited my home town of Edinburgh Scotland for the first time
in
> 33 years and was delighted to find that the local version of Lowland Scots
> had made quite a come back.

Maybe that's due to the recent publication of "The Wee Fre Men" by Terry
Pratchett, which I am currently reading. There's a tribe of small blue
tattooed, red-haired, kilt-wearing fairy-like belligerent creatures, called
"Pictsies", and they speak Scots all the way... (Ron, I'm not sure I want to
hear your comment this time!).

It's hilarious - big recommendation!

Gabriele Kahn

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