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XPost: soc.culture.scottish
From: innes8@verizon.net
"The Highlander" wrote in message
news:hr7fc3dul001b12mgqqov79gsseha8dggd@4ax.com...
>>> ROFL! 'Highlander' is a lowlander, and has lowlander orientations. And
>>> there is no such language as 'Scots', any more than Geordie is a
>>> language.
>>> It is a dialect form of speech, much influenced by all sorts of things,
>>> [see above] and from time to time, more this than that. But language?
>>> Not!
> Never mind Allan - you may be sure that I support every word you've
> written to date,
Should one break into this tristesse?
> especially considering that I have suddenly become a
> Lowlander with Lowland orientations!
Sure, own it. Did you ever live in the highlands, btw? Or are you and your
buddy sort of educated visitors?
> I miss Galashiels - the bens, the glens, Strath Selkirk, Ben Eildon,
> the ceilidhs, the soft sounds of Gaelic in the streets, cutting the
> peat in the Greenyards, working on the banks of Caddon Water, hauling
> in the nets, filled with shoals of herring making their way up to St.
> Mary's Loch - ochone, ochone.
>
> I think we'll have to change the name of the Borders to the Galltachd;
> the place where the people speak Gall, just like they do in Mull,
> according to Mr. Innes.
I notice that is not a quotation - and so what is it? Some need to demonise
people who actually lived where one has one's romances? ROFL!
> Pye Chove ass we say in Gala, it iss a winderful pictur Himself hass
> of ta Lowlans!
Indistinguishable from the Sassenach, is how he speaks - how he denies us
our life, our experince, and goes on about Scotland the Whaaaaaaa?
Phil Innes
> The Highlander
> Tilgibh smucaid air do làmhan,
> togaibh a' bhratach dhubh agus
> toisichibh a' geàrradh na sgòrnanan!
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