#scots leid

[ayeforscotland]

Every so often I’m reminded of how insane this site was when people went out their way to mock Scots leid because of a Pokemon character.

#ayeforscotland #scotland #Scots leid #scots language

[no-passaran]

I'm no havin children by Scottish poet Len Pennie.

#🥹 #gairebé ploro llegint-lo #len pennie #scots #scots leid #scotland #stateless nations #poetry #minority languages #💬

[e-von-dahl]

I’m gonna start compiling a list of Scot’s words that are shared with other west Germanic languages but not English.

I’m sick of people telling me it’s “just slang” or “just English with an accent”. It’s a whole language.

#scots leid #scots language #scots #linguistics #languages #langblr

[elicatkin]

#scots #gàidhlig #gaelic #scots leid #scottish languages #scottish politics #scottish government #scotland

[susantbraithwaite]

The Journey to My Dream Job as a Writer

What’s your dream job? For me, this question triggered a cascade of memories, each one a step towards my ultimate dream. It all began when I was about seven, crafting a local magazine with a friend in our bit (Scots for area). We filled pages with news, puzzles, and stories, selling our handmade creations door-to-door. Little did I know, this was the start of my journey to becoming a…

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#bloganuary #bloganuary-2024-20 #dailyprompt #dailyprompt-1823 #scots leid #writer

[bletheringskite]

Whit is Scots ?

The staundin o Scots as a leid the day is mair quirkie than that o say Gaelic, in that Scots has co-existit – tae a mair or lesser extent dependit on the yaiser – wi English ower a wheen o centuries.

Socio-political pressures hae aften demandit that Scots be dauntened in fauvour o a dominant, staundartised English, (Samuel Johnson cried the Scots tung a ‘rough and uncouth brogue’). Houaniver Scots bade wi us in everyday speech, in poetry, story an sang, finnin a vyce throu the literary revivals o Alan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson an Robert Burns.

The level o Scots yaised in the present day micht lippen on wha happens tae be the spikker. Tae some it micht mean simply a few wirds in thair vocabulary, tae ithers it cuid be a rich dialect wi its byordinar wirds an expressions. 

https://wee-windaes.nls.uk/whit-is-scots/

#Scots language #Scots leid

[reiverreturns]

alright not to be weird about scots language (again) but

the fact that scotstober exists and people are encouraging creation of art in or inspired by our native language makes me heart so freaking happy.

#i could cry about it honestly #scots language #scotstober #if ah wisnae in that much ae a fankle aroond ma ain leid the noo i'd be richt oan it #like this language was beaten out of me as a child! i was put outside in the rain for speaking it! i'm 31 years old this was not long ago!!

[saltiestgempearl]

I'm seriously starting to get second-hand embarrassment every time I see a "oh man Stoker is so bad at accents" post in response to Stoker's a good-faith attempts at writing English dialects that are not The Queen's English. It's not Bram Stoker's fault that colonialism has rotted your brain so much that you genuinely think there is only one "correct" way to write English.

Unless of course I'm wrong, and this entry's "accent" was in fact straight up Scots leid, in which case the posts talking about how silly and bad the writing is are even worse.

#dracula daily

[ayeforscotland]

Fit're yer thochts on the Scots leid and hoo the high-heid-yins are daein keepin it kickin?

Scots leid - excellent - needs protected similar to Gaelic. Women who speak it constantly get abused by old dads on twitter, similar to Gaelic tbh.

I liked Billy Kay’s speech in Parliament, what we need though is more protection and cultural funding. Tough to do when there’s so much welfare and business chaos - but we need to find a way.

[interstitious]

[theredontbedragons]

I'm 99% sure that unionist xenophobia post from Aye was referring to Scots leid, not Gàidhlig. Awful thing to say about any language though.

You’re probably right there - either way, it’s totally missing the point of keeping whatever culture we have left alive and breathing.

There’s several dialects and languages around the UK, and I doubt they’d make the the same comment about the others.

[elicatkin]

Maitland’s Poem 49

https://wee-windaes.nls.uk/the-maitland-quarto-and-poem-49/

#scots leid #scots #lanquage #poetry #sapphic #lgbtq+ #queer #scotland #scottish national portrait gallery

[susantbraithwaite]

Heart of Stone?

Never get attached. That was the lesson I learnt at a young age. It wasn’t that I had a heart of stone. I was being practical, protecting myself from inevitable heartache. Growing up, I quickly realised that whether due to someone’s ‘need’ being more important than mine or the destructive force of rage or jealousy, getting too attached was a guaranteed path to sorrow. Discovery in the Dirt But,…

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#bloganuary #bloganuary-2024-10 #dailyprompt #dailyprompt-1813 #scots leid #stone

[bletheringskite]

The farm in Dumfries and Galloway where poet Robert Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne has been awarded museum status after a three-year drive to improve the care of its collection.

Ellisland Farm in Auldgirth, which was built by the poet in 1788 for his young wife Jean Armour, is considered Burns’ most authentic home.

The A-listed site includes his fishing rod, flute and school books as well as several manuscripts.

#Scots Leid #Robert Burns #Poetry #Auldgirth

[normalweirdoboy]

Ma Lassie Frae The Hills

(A sel composit poem i Scots Leid)

Oh ma lassie

Frae the hills hich

Yer hair unfurlit

Maks ma hert sich

Whan ye smile

At ma silliness

It maks me blush

A must confess

An yer vyce

Like thon o angels

Hou it echas

I the sweet gells

Wiss A coud

Hold thon hand o yours

An kiss yer lips

Ahint the doors

But A know

Whit A love isnae ye

But the thoucht

O lovin ye

- Ogni

#yayy i wrote something in scots #bet there are a lots of mistakes in it #but still #my first scots poem #uwu #scots leid #scottish #poem #langblr #poemblr #poetry #scotland #uk #language learning #lassie #hills #self composed

[reiverreturns]

i just scrolled your blog to take a wee look 'cause oh look a fellow Scot perhaps?? and ooft man your take about the Merida post pic actual near enough had me yelling in agreement at my computer screen. Thank you for getting it! Sincerely, a fellow exhausted Scot that would like to not be treated as a joke waiting to happen for how I sound.

(And not just because I'm a Fifer)

thank you friend! unfortunately you're just asking for it being a fifer, eh <3

taking this as an opportunity to re-post the tags, because i've got a lot of followers who aren't scottish and won't understand why the jokes about merida not being understandable and other scots-speaking characters are bang-your-head-on-a-wall frustrating for a lot of scots speakers.

dinnae even get me started oan the pokemon trainer...

#i think what most non-scottish audiences who don't see the problem miss is the broader context of it being part of a tradition #of using scots language exclusively for comedy or otherwise pastoral entertainment #where a group of people (scots) are 'othered' by their foreignness/social class/lack of education/financial standing/etc #in the modernist tradition you can trace this right back to the 18th century #the most obvious example being robert burns as 'the ploughman's poet' #having this humility about his image as a rural man because he wrote in scots #despite the fact he was extremely clever and educated and spent huge amounts of time rubbing shoulders with #high society at the peak of the scottish enlightenment #this translates today to scots being almost exclusively used in comedy broadcasting despite it being one of scotland's three major languages #we get still game and gary tank commander and rab c nesbitt but i've NEVER heard a news broadcast in my own language #scots is a language weaponised in mainstream media to hammer in the idea that scottish people are stupid and our voices have no value #in isolation i don't get offended by jokes like this (because i am difficult to understand! my accent is thick! it's cool!) #but you've gotta be aware of the tradition this unwittingly feeds #and know how it harms everyday scots still trying to find a little pride in their native leid to this day

#i could speak about scots language and the history of scots all freaking day #also i couldn't resist a fifer joke i'm so sorry