Scottish Politics / Independence - Vol 12

My overall sense from that screed was that here was a young person who needed, at multiple points in his life, to hear the words ‘pipe down boy, adults are talking’.

Entitled wk.

She's got to get her lines from somewhere, after all. She was just waiting for the instruction on which facial expression would be the most beneficial to the cause.

Of all the current cabinet troughers members, she’s the one that seems least likely to be getting her lines from the member for Glasgow Southside or her hangers on. The rest of them, on the other hand…

That's intersting that you call Scots 'gibberish' EV. I am at odds with many, as ever, in that I don't see it as a 'language' regardless what others say, in that if it is a language so is Scouse, or Cockney, or any of the myriad other regional dialects spoken across this disunited Kingdom. I see no need to dress up the way I talk, my parents and grandparents talked 'Scots', that is, they didn't jist have an accent, they talked using words that are derived from and apposite for the area they lived. Its only gibberish surely if it can't be understood? Given the amount that talk 'scots', one could argue its much more relevant than Scots Gaelic, although one would be forgiven for thinking that given the amount of money wasted putting Gaelic equivalents on police cars, street names and ambulances, presumeably for a non existent percentage of the population who speak ONLY gaelic and can't figure out a white car with a blue light and an English word 'Police' that looks very similar to the Gaelic one 'Poileas' is, in fact, a fkin Polis car; repeat for Ambulance etc...

Rant over....back to my lonely furrow...there are no monsters, there are no monsters.....

No, she's a person I very much dislike, just there's no need to insult her looks. There's plenty of other stuff to pull her up on instead.

No, Scots doesn't have to be Burns type language, it's not archaic and it is, like all use of language, if not a language in and off itself, vibrant, adaptive and evolving. The 'scots' taught in schools encompasses lots of modern writers and poets, and I'm not against it, but it is a (forced) adaptation of the English language, and although its history is quite sad in places, it is how we communicate, or many of us do...its just not a language in my eyes....or ears. As for incomprehensible pish, go talk to an auld Angus farmer, or someone from the North East, or a broad Glaswegian or Fifer. They can be incomprehensible until you tune into the different intonations and figure out the different words. Scots is made up of many, many parts which is why I don't see it as any different than Scouse etc, all dialects that sprung up through necessity evolved seperately but alongside the Engiish language that spawned them

I have zero hostility to Scots as it has the same entitlement to recognition as Shakespearean English, but just like Shakespearean English it sounds ridiculous when used as a means to communicate in the modern world. Scots is not the effected accents of Glasgow, Edinburgh or Ayrshire that some people think it is.

It is not surprising though that Emma Harper is an advocate for it. She's ste at it and doesn't actually understand what it is, which sums up everything about Harper.

This is the same Emma Harper that doesn't understand the basics of currency exchange, and her performance at the Committee on the Cass report is an excruciating watch. The poor Dr. Hilary Cass was very composed but struggled to hide her disbelief at the cretinous, incomprehensible questioning from Harper.

How about she speaks properly given her position, salary and the importance of what’s being discussed?

Time and place for stuff eh?

Regarding her looks...a lot of women dye their hair in a vain attempt to keep their looks for as long as possible, where some just fancy a change, I'll bet you Sturgeon's ginger look has more to do with the stereo typical look of "A Wee Scottish Lass" than anything else, its a projection of a fantasy image.

Do you not think if Sturgeon was drop dead gorgeous her demeanor would be completely different...she might actually be likeable.

Like I said a few posts ago, I was brought up and live in darkest Aberdeenshire so can fit in perfectly with the local farmers if I need to but I wouldn't have dreamt of speaking like that when I worked for a large multinational or if away from Aberdeenshire.

I have a Glaswegian friend who refuses to even moderate his accent and it makes me cringe - he kept to his usual lightning quick Glaswegian even on a recent trip to Morocco with locals who, despite speaking English fluently were understandably completely lost every time he opened his mouth. Speaking "properly" in a universally understandable accent is a vitally important valuable life skill.