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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
<span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Michael Everson</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:everson@evertype.com">everson@evertype.com</a>></span></p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L
"Resources" 2010.12.29 (02) [EN]</span></p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">> From: Andy
(scots-Online) <<a href="mailto:andy@scots-online.org">andy@scots-online.org</a>><br>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">>> Ron wrote:<br>
>> I happen to know that our Michael Everson has at least two further Lowlands language translations coming up: (Mainland)
Scots, and Ulster Scots (Ullans). I feel very excited about them.<br>
><br>
> Those are both the same ‘language’. The linguist James Milroy commented
“It must be emphasised that in their strongest rural forms these dialects are
Lowland Scots dialects. Those of Antrim and North Derry
are barely distinguishable from Ayrshire dialects.” (1982: 27)</p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Yep. This is well-known.
Nevertheless, the authorities in Ulster support a particular variety
with a particular orthography.</p>

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> Of course the translations will likely differ from each other in choice of
vocabulary and orthography.</p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">And they do indeed.</p>

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> That would generally hold true for further translations in any variety of
Scots.</p>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I'd
love one in Shetlandic though.<br>
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Michael Everson * <a href="http://www.evertype.com/" target="_blank">http://www.evertype.com/</a></span></p>

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