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L O W L A N D S - L - 22 May 2011 - Volume 02<br>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p>From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color:#5b1094">Sandy Fleming</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:fleemin@live.co.uk">fleemin@live.co.uk</a></span></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Language politics" 2011.05.22 (01) [EN]</span><br><br><div class="im">> From: <span><span style="color:rgb(91, 16, 148)">Paul Finlow-Bates</span> <span><a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a></span></span><br>
> Subject: <span>LL-L "Language politics" 2011.05.21 (02) [EN]</span><br><br></div><div class="im">> Scots will speak how they want to, when they want to, to whomever they want to. Rather as they do now.
<div> </div></div>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>It's all wide open, I think!<br><br>Sandy Fleming<br><a href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/</a><br><br>
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