LL-L: "Language maintenance" LOWLANDS-L, 11.AUG.2000 (10) [E]

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From: Colin Wilson [lcwilson at iee.org]
Subject: LL-L: "Language maintenance" LOWLANDS-L, 10.AUG.2000 (10) [E]

At 16:02 10/08/00 -0700, john feather wrote:
>The last paragraph says: "... one Navajo woman ... took a marking pen to her
>local supermarket. Beneath the English words on each sign, she wrote the
>translation in Navajo." This reminded me of the recent discussion about
>written Scots. Would it help awareness if ordinary people could see that the
>language could be written as well as spoken? (I am not, of course, implying
>that any law-abiding Scot would do such a thing without permission.)

Probably only if the Scots text appeared in print. If someone took a
marking pen and added the like of "breid", "tatties", "ile", or "aipples"
to signs most people's assumption would be that someone was trying to be
funny.

I have heard of one supermarket that does have printed signs in
Scots. I don't know the firm, but I think it's in Dunblane.

Colin Wilson.

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Colin Wilson                   the barra wadna row its lane
writin fae Aiberdein           an sicna soss it nivver wis seen
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