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Odin and Valhalla typical night.
Derrick Parfitt wrote in
: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:17:25 +1200, Nik wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:17:37 -0400, Scout wrote: Actually France (as in William the Conqueror) is responsible for mangling English, at least for causing the head on collision of French-Latin and German, which resulted in English. Don't blame the Brits, their only sin was losing a war to the French in 1066. Scout Scout, actually they were French-speaking Normans. Scott Lowther wrote: For REAL English-mangling, you've got to leave it to the Brits. Of course, that's far from the worst... I've seen some Scots on TV who sounded like they were speaking something entirely different from English. Whomever posted the immediately above is obviously ignorant of the Gaelic language background of Scotland. Nik, They were commenting on the relative intelligibility of English spoken by some people in Scotland. The English spoken in Scotland derives many of its pronunciations, some of its syntax, and a few of its words from the early Northumbian English dialect of the middle ages that was spoken by the most populous regions of Scotland. This dialect was referred to as Scots or Lallans (lowlands) up to the period of Robert Burns and was, of course, quite distinct from Scottish Gaelic, which is a different language entirely. Just about everybody in the world who speaks English speaks south-eastern England English with its accompanying syntax and language structure (including the overwhelming majority of people in Scotland) with local pronunciations and some slang words. The "kebab vikings" on the webpage spoke common modern English, except for a some slang words and a very heavy Glaswegian ( I suspect) accent. Yorkie, fjuckwit. Bertie |
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