Tha's awfu interestin, sae it is. Wis gaun tae dae th same masel!
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jack Campin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: [scots-l] auld sang line
> > There are parts of the song which point to construction by somone
> > whose natural word-order and vocabulary are English rather than Scots.
>
> There is a book devoted to this: translations of Burns into Scots...
> i.e. reverse-engineering what he might have written if he hadn't been
> looking over his shoulder at an Anglophone or Anglified audience.
> A friend of mine had a review copy of it about a year ago and that's
> the only one I've seen. The author's reconstructed phrases were
> printed in green to distinguish them from the unchanged text. Anyone
> know what this was?
>
> I didn't look at it in detail, but my initial response of "you have
> got to be kidding" gradually gave way to "hmm, he might just have a
> point there". Some of these reconstructions seemed more singable.
>
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