ArchaeoEejit
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Mar 13, 2025 6:09 PM
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abeansits
Och aye the noo
SwissScars
Why would you want that in Welsh?
KilroyLichking
they said me Connaught brogue wasn't much in vogue on the rocky road to Dublin
KilroyLichking
aye he's got a barróg so thick ya kann'e see thu et
AyatollahBahloni
I love Scots English. People make fun of it, but it's a separate dialect unto itself, and I adore the sound of it.
ArchaeoEejit
This is Ulster Scots. According to some people in N. Ireland, this isn't a dialect of English, it's a language lol.
KilroyLichking
a barróg so thick ya'd think t'was cheddar
AyatollahBahloni
As a career linguist, I can say that it's definitely a good question. A language is written and spoken. A dialect is usually only spoken. That is, the rules of language are standardized and written, whereas the rules of dialects are not. I'd come down on the side of language in this case, if push came to shove.
Eleshar24
As a fellow scholar of languages: a language is a dialect with its own armed forces.
ArchaeoEejit
To my knowledge the spellings aren't standardized. People use lol, wtf etc in speech, does that make text message abbreviations it's own language? What's your opinion on this being a political move to legitimize a dialect in order to undercut recent progress with the Irish language act in N. Ireland?