Well, the last line is in Latin.
Also, be aware that Scots and English have been twining round each other
like the two snakes on a caduceus;
how ever, to my mind that is part of a poem by William Dunbar, so 15th
century.
Fit fashes me, mynd, is that the orthographie micht hae been chaungit,
Richmond, is this Scots or just badly spelled 16th Century English? A genuine
enquiry
The stait of man dois change and vary,
Now sound, now seik, now blith, now sary,
Now dansand mery, now like to dee;
Timor mortis conturbat me.
Graham
> On 28 Aug 2020, at 21:22, Richmond via use-livecode
> w
Very droll: that's a load of Frenchies having fun.
On 28.08.20 19:44, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
If the painting is any indication of a real event, the Scots would be well
advised to build their bon fires a wee bit further from the wooden ladders they
are torturing their victims on. :
If the painting is any indication of a real event, the Scots would be well
advised to build their bon fires a wee bit further from the wooden ladders they
are torturing their victims on. :-)
Bob S
> On Aug 28, 2020, at 9:09 AM, Richmond via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Well, I suppose it is fu
I was under the impression that the latter was the case on account of the
former. ;-)
Bob S
On Aug 28, 2020, at 9:05 AM, Richmond via use-livecode
mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
Potentially tens of millions of people now think that Scots is a horribly
mangled rendering of Engl
Well, I suppose it is funny: about as funny as pointing out to those
people in Utah who spawned this idiot that
undder Scots law as a citizen of a Scottish colony whose indepndence is
only de facto under Scots law he should
suffer the death sentence for treason: drawing and quartering.
https://
"this person has possibly done more damage to the Scots language than
anyone else in history. They engaged in cultural vandalism on a hitherto
unprecedented scale. Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites in
the world. Potentially tens of millions of people now think that Scots
is a horrib
😆
> On Aug 28, 2020, at 7:59 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Almost every article on the Scots version of Wikipedia is written by one
> American teenager who can't speak Scots
>
> "A veelage is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet
> but smawer than a
Almost every article on the Scots version of Wikipedia is written by one
American teenager who can't speak Scots
"A veelage is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a
hamlet but smawer than a toun, wi a population rangin frae a few hunder
tae a few thoosand (sometimes tens o t
