LL-L "Language politics" 2011.05.22 (01) [EN]

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

Following the victory of the Scottish Nationalist Party in the recent
elections, the Scots have been promised a referendum on independence.  I can
only hope they vote for it, as it is the only hope for English independence:
the British government will never, ever, allow us the same right.

However, if the two countries go their own ways, and hopefully the other two
(or one-and-a-half depending how you look at it) , I believe it is typical
politicians' hubris to think that they can somehow direct or dictate the way
people are going to speak. Commerce and communiction will flow across all
the borders as readily as now, and people will need to speak to each other.

If Scots becomes an "official" language it will require some definition of
what that is; the various dialects of Scots across the country must be at
least as variable as English.

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

Paul
Derby
England

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