Thread by @AlfonzCavalier, Scots is a dialect, writing in an accent and using regional slang [...]

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Scots is a dialect, writing in an accent and using regional slang words does not change that it just makes you look daft https://twitter.com/ionafyfe/status/1348355793616252930

https://twitter.com/ionafyfe/status/1348355793616252930

'Action maun be taen tae gie' is just 'action must be taken to give' in a Lowlands accent, I mean c'mon.

Any serious etymological study will show that these words are pretty much all Anglo-Saxon in origin (although 'Action' is French, aka Norman-derived, aka even more English)

I really like Scotland, have Scottish friends, my fiancee is half-Scottish, I mark St Andrew's Day and Burn's Night every year and took a lot of childhood holidays in Scotland.

But Scots is not a language and pretending that it is is very embarrassing. Learn Gaelic instead

Looking at this official Scottish government web page, the claim that Scots is a distinct language looks to be pretty much self-refuting: https://www.parliament.scot/help/79056.aspx

'But it's recognised by the EU, UNESCO and numerous academics' I literally don't care. The voice of self-interested temporal/ credentialed authority does not make something true

People who speak English as a foreign language can understand Scots without any additional study. Checkmate.

I'm going to make a cockney mode for all British government web pages. Phrases like 'Find out more' will be replaced with 'Go on ven, 'ave a Butcher's'.

I will petition the UN for recognition of cockney as a language and send personal insults to anyone who questions it

Duolingo Scots

The Rosetta Stone Introductory Scots course

Wikipedia Scots edition

Google translate: Scots

'Sorry, must dash, I'll be late for my Scots lesson'

These things all exist for Gaelic, why not for Scots?

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