Scottish Independence
Jan 29th 2012, 10:03 pm
#391
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Jan 29th 2012, 10:07 pm
#392
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Re: Scottish Independence
I'll try and get it back on topic. There was an interesting piece in The Guardian this weekend:
Who most wants independence for Scotland?
That's an entirely freaky picture of Alex Salmond at the top too...
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Who most wants independence for Scotland?
That's an entirely freaky picture of Alex Salmond at the top too...
S
Jan 29th 2012, 10:14 pm
#393
Joined: Dec 2007
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Re: Scottish Independence
I'll try and get it back on topic. There was an interesting piece in The Guardian this weekend:
Who most wants independence for Scotland?
That's an entirely freaky picture of Alex Salmond at the top too...
S
Who most wants independence for Scotland?
That's an entirely freaky picture of Alex Salmond at the top too...
S
Jan 29th 2012, 10:39 pm
#394
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Jan 30th 2012, 6:29 am
#395
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Jan 30th 2012, 10:32 am
#396
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Re: Scottish Independence
thumbup:like the site.A friend of mine has a regular liaison with a prostitute when ever he visits Melbourne.She needed some building work doing and he gave her my number.He rang me with this brief.'If she asks what I do,tell her I'm a colonel in the parachute regiment.' He was actually a captain(dentist) in the Australian Army.Sad git.
Apologies Scottishcelts I'm sure you do know your history and you know
Gaelic which is quite impressive but Alex Salmond... way to many chins!
Needs to stay off the neaps and tatties or the deep fried mars bars!
Jan 30th 2012, 11:57 am
#397
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Re: Scottish Independence
I know I feel rather sorry for them to be honest, even after that sickening comment but yeah....... back on topic.
Apologies Scottishcelts I'm sure you do know your history and you know
Gaelic which is quite impressive but Alex Salmond... way to many chins!
Needs to stay off the neaps and tatties or the deep fried mars bars!
Apologies Scottishcelts I'm sure you do know your history and you know
Gaelic which is quite impressive but Alex Salmond... way to many chins!
Needs to stay off the neaps and tatties or the deep fried mars bars!
bet yir english!!!!
Jan 31st 2012, 9:02 am
#398
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Re: Scottish Independence
Contrary to what a lot of people, (mostly Scottish) think, Gaelic is not, and never was the language that all of Scotland used to speak. Gaelic is/was the language of the Gaels, and was mostly spoken in the West Highlands and some parts of Galloway.
Lowland Scottish people (like me) spoke Scots, which for want of a good example, is the language that Robert Burns wrote in. So that includes places like Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling, Falkirk, Dundee, Ayrshire, and most of the Borders. In the Aberdeen / Peterhead area they spoke a mixture of Scots and Doric.
Most Scottish people, particularly from the lowlands, still speak a watered down version of Old Scots, so this romanticised notion that we have all somehow 'lost' Gaelic is wrong. The vast majority of us still speak in a way that our ancestors of 3 or 4 hundred years ago wouldn't have much trouble understanding.
Right! That's enough from me for now... I'm off to find a soap box, and then I'll start on what I think about Scottish independence...
Jan 31st 2012, 5:08 pm
#400
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Re: Scottish Independence
How do you expect to gain independence, if you can't even agree what language you speak?
Jan 31st 2012, 6:00 pm
#401
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Re: Scottish Independence
Non Sequitur.
Feb 1st 2012, 12:20 am
#402
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Re: Scottish Independence
Oh well... That's my morning snookered for an hour or so while I have a look at it.
Feb 1st 2012, 1:03 am
#403
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Re: Scottish Independence
Hmm, well the current Salmond brainwave is that they keep the pound, and that the Bank of England would still be lender of last resort to the newly independent scots (I know, fat chance...).
Maybe he will have a similar idea on 'scots'? Maybe they will keep the tenuous connections to English and expect the OED to modify its entries to match the butchered verbiage of Burns?
Frankly nothing would surprise me at the moment - the la-la-land ideas coming out of the SNP about how the world will warp itself to their desires of what reality 'ought to be' are getting progressively further from what is going to happen.
It's going to be unpleasant for them when they wake up.
Maybe he will have a similar idea on 'scots'? Maybe they will keep the tenuous connections to English and expect the OED to modify its entries to match the butchered verbiage of Burns?
Frankly nothing would surprise me at the moment - the la-la-land ideas coming out of the SNP about how the world will warp itself to their desires of what reality 'ought to be' are getting progressively further from what is going to happen.
It's going to be unpleasant for them when they wake up.
