LL-L "Language varieties" 2010.03.22 (03) [EN]

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From: Hellinckx Luc <luc.hellinckx at gmail.com>
 Subject: LL-L "Language varieties"



Beste John & Sandy,



You wrote:



> First, it's not unusual for internal areas in the UK not to have
> specific adjectival forms. Some do - Cornish, Glaswegian, Orcadian,
> Liverpudlian, etc - and some don't seem to (or at least not ones that
> come easily to mind) - Yorkshire? Somerset? Edinburgh?  Shetland.
> Which ones do and which ones don't seems to be almost accidental.

So what? There are big trends in English these days towards more
productive use of the lexicon, with people saying things like "Are you
Whitbying this year?", "I'm not deaf, I'm a hearie" and so on.
"Shetlandic" isn't exactly without precedent (Icelandic, Greenlandic,
Turkic). Assuming you're aware of the dialects/language, you'd have to
be deliberately pretending if you said you didn't understand the term.



"Shetlandish" sounds more logical to me than "Shetlandic".



Just like "Turkic" is rather the name for a whole language family (whereas
"Turkish" is but the name of a single member), the use of "Shetlandic"
suggests that the linguistic landscape of the Shetlands these days is very
diverse and consists of many different, but mutually related sister
languages.



"Shet-landish" on the other hand is similar to "out-landish"...even a
formation like "Shettish" doesn't sound too weird to me, conform to English,
Scottish and Irish.



Kind greetings,



Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium



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