LL-L: "Grammar" LOWLANDS-L, 13.JUL.2000 (08) [S]

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From: Sandy Fleemin [sandy at scotstext.org]
Subject: "Grammar"

John Magnus wrate:

>> I think Sandy's brack-doun o the uiss o the historic present is
juist the
kind o thing at's nott for Scots writin - bein awaur o the
possibeilities o
expression i the leid. This is whit wey it's nae uiss ti juist follae
English gremmar - ye micht as weel write English. <<

The trouble wi this is, whaur we ti finnd sic writin ti dae a brek-doun
o?  Maist Scots writin is that jaupit wi English ae road or anither that ye
canna richt sort oot the English fae the Scots, even whan we ken fine
that the writers couldna a spak that wey. This is true o the Makars, Burns
an his core, the Victorian revivalists, MacDiarmid an his menseless trowes -
vernear aabody!

Mind you, even sicna wee passage as thon ane ye first quoted fae Grey
can gie a gey muckle revelation - an if onybody read ma mail on Hislop's
uise o the conditional in his proverbs ye'll a seen the kin o trouble that aa
the anglification in the name o literarification gies us - but at the same
time ye div end up seein things that juist couldna be English, an jalouze it
maun be richt Scots!

Sandy
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perfeck, 'No that bad' is the maist that mortal
man can venture tae say while here ablo.
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