Re: [OT] Re: the Ethnologue

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Fri Dec 01 2000 - 00:34:07 EST


On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Kenneth Whistler wrote:

> > Scots is a separate language! If you understand anything at all
> > it's by a happy accident. (There is of course Scots-flavored
> > English as well, which is another matter.)
>
> I was, of course, referring to Scots (alleged) English, and not
> to Scots Gaelic.

Sae wes I. But Scotland's a twa-leidit fowkrick (Scots an Scots Gaelic),
o three gif we coont "mim-mou'd Sudron".

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
	--Douglas Hofstadter



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