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submitted 9 months ago by Stamets to c/memes
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[–] adam_y 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ay, I know... But it's frequent that folk are ignorant about the language spoken here. It's not strictly English.

If you'd checked out the link you'd see that it sounds like English a lot of the time, but is its own distinct branch, not just including the pronunciation but the words too.

I'm not talking about Gaelic here, but the the sort of English where you can call someone a fud whilst smiling at them because they don't know what it means.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What I meant is that you replied directly to the meme but the meme is specifically about someone speaking English with a Scottish accent so saying "Scots is a different language" doesn't make much sense in this context.

If you had said "Some people don't realize it but there's a language specific to Scotland that isn't English with a Scottish accent" then that would have made more sense.