LL-L "Language politics" 2011.05.22 (02) [EN]

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From: Sandy Fleming fleemin at live.co.uk
Subject: LL-L "Language politics" 2011.05.22 (01) [EN]

> From: Paul Finlow-Bates wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk
> Subject: LL-L "Language politics" 2011.05.21 (02) [EN]

> Scots will speak how they want to, when they want to, to whomever they
want to. Rather as they do now.

Then again, English dialects are traditionally even more varied across the
country than Scots dialects are, England being much more populous and
everything. It's just that the English have tended to abandon traditional
dialects in favour of the educational standard.

It may be that in an independent Scotland, Scots speakers would be inclined
to abandon traditional dialects for a more formal sort of Scots, especially
if an accepted form of Scots started getting to be taught in schools.

It's all wide open, I think!

Sandy Fleming
http://scotstext.org/

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