Scottish Politics / Independence - Vol 11
Discussion
N7GTX said:
hidetheelephants said:
She was wittering on about energy too, although it was a meaningless word salad of sustainable this, ecological that and efficiency the other; it could have been phoned in by any politician speaking at any event at any time in the last 20 years as there were no specifics about anything. This is the best we've got and it's a load of s
te; now she's got little chance of a job at the EU is this her angling for something at the UN or a beltway bandit?
This will fit the agenda of the coalition then. Drax, the biomass power station operator, wants to expand Ben Cruachan by digging out 2 million tons of rock to install a 600 megawatt power station. This will create hundreds of jobs.te; now she's got little chance of a job at the EU is this her angling for something at the UN or a beltway bandit?Drax's owners are based in bastirt England but no doubt the ruling junta will be fine with this.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-16...
I've given up expecting leadership or even the slightest bit of backbone...
s2kjock said:
Does that form of pumped storage help with the calm day problem that wind power reliance gives? I thought it was more for ad-break-kettle-switch-on surge, or can it provide lower output over the longer term?
Would assume low output could be achieved by only opening the tap a bit and sending it down a small bore pipe to increase pressures2kjock said:
Does that form of pumped storage help with the calm day problem that wind power reliance gives? I thought it was more for ad-break-kettle-switch-on surge, or can it provide lower output over the longer term?
The reservoir has 7Gwh of storage. 7Gwh would power Scotland for 2 hours.As far as I understand the expansion is just building more generators not a bigger reservoir. So the effect will be that it can provide bigger short term balancing. It is not a solution to the fact that wind power regularly produces only a tiny fraction of it's headline power for days at a time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruachan_Power_Stati...
Desiderata said:
hiccy18 said:
I'd far rather see the promotion of Scots, which is spoken by a large portion of the country on a daily basis, than seeing the museum piece that is Gaelic splattered all over things that didn't exist a century ago.
I'd agree with you, except that Scots isn't a language. It's a dialect version of the language spoken throughout the UK. Unfortunately someone somewhere chose to name that language "English" so we can't possibly admit to speaking "English" so we've had to invent one "of our own"I don't know anyone who speaks like this.
https://www.gov.scot/publications/scots-language-p...
Jenny Tailor said:
Desiderata said:
hiccy18 said:
I'd far rather see the promotion of Scots, which is spoken by a large portion of the country on a daily basis, than seeing the museum piece that is Gaelic splattered all over things that didn't exist a century ago.
I'd agree with you, except that Scots isn't a language. It's a dialect version of the language spoken throughout the UK. Unfortunately someone somewhere chose to name that language "English" so we can't possibly admit to speaking "English" so we've had to invent one "of our own"I don't know anyone who speaks like this.
https://www.gov.scot/publications/scots-language-p...
OnTheBreadline said:
Jenny Tailor said:
Desiderata said:
hiccy18 said:
I'd far rather see the promotion of Scots, which is spoken by a large portion of the country on a daily basis, than seeing the museum piece that is Gaelic splattered all over things that didn't exist a century ago.
I'd agree with you, except that Scots isn't a language. It's a dialect version of the language spoken throughout the UK. Unfortunately someone somewhere chose to name that language "English" so we can't possibly admit to speaking "English" so we've had to invent one "of our own"I don't know anyone who speaks like this.
https://www.gov.scot/publications/scots-language-p...
Here is the policy in English.
https://www.gov.scot/publications/scots-language-p...
Jenny Tailor said:
OnTheBreadline said:
Jenny Tailor said:
Desiderata said:
hiccy18 said:
I'd far rather see the promotion of Scots, which is spoken by a large portion of the country on a daily basis, than seeing the museum piece that is Gaelic splattered all over things that didn't exist a century ago.
I'd agree with you, except that Scots isn't a language. It's a dialect version of the language spoken throughout the UK. Unfortunately someone somewhere chose to name that language "English" so we can't possibly admit to speaking "English" so we've had to invent one "of our own"I don't know anyone who speaks like this.
https://www.gov.scot/publications/scots-language-p...
Here is the policy in English.
https://www.gov.scot/publications/scots-language-p...
ked.(Can't wait for the cockney one, 'leeefe it aaahht mate')
Jenny Tailor said:
Desiderata said:
hiccy18 said:
I'd far rather see the promotion of Scots, which is spoken by a large portion of the country on a daily basis, than seeing the museum piece that is Gaelic splattered all over things that didn't exist a century ago.
I'd agree with you, except that Scots isn't a language. It's a dialect version of the language spoken throughout the UK. Unfortunately someone somewhere chose to name that language "English" so we can't possibly admit to speaking "English" so we've had to invent one "of our own"I don't know anyone who speaks like this.
https://www.gov.scot/publications/scots-language-p...
Scoattish Guvviment said:
The Scots leid is only spoken within Scotland and it is no yaised onywhaur else in the warld by a community o significant nummer or extent. Therefore steps maun be taen within Scotland, tae mak its preservation siccar.
Someone best tell the community of Ulster Scots speakers.FNG said:
Such bks. As though someone from rural Ayrshire talks the same way as someone from the Hebrides or the Edinburgh slums or Berwick or Helensburgh or Kirkcaldy.
It's not Scots, it's a fking accent. Get over yourselves.
Exactly this. That link posted above is not a 'Scots translation', it is an attempt at phonetically spelling the pronunciation of English in a particular example of a Scottish accent. The Scottish accent that has about 5 variations just across the central belt alone, so to try and standardise it is in itself an insult to the hundreds of thousands of Scots who have an accent that isn't the one being presented.ks. As though someone from rural Ayrshire talks the same way as someone from the Hebrides or the Edinburgh slums or Berwick or Helensburgh or Kirkcaldy. It's not Scots, it's a f
king accent. Get over yourselves.It is fakery of the ultimate sort, intended to give a false image of an "already independent" Scotland to the outside world.
Reminds me of wjhen people noticed that the Scots wikipaedia was almost entirely written by an American teenager. Nobody had noticed. Shows how releva t Scots is to everyday life.
https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/scots-wikiped...
As for the gaelic stuff. My mum was a native speaker. In conversation I remember hearing her talking to her sisters. It was a stream of gaelic mixed with modern words like television etc. They borrowed the words just like English has taken countless words from other languages.
There is no need to invent gaelic versions of these words
https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/scots-wikiped...
As for the gaelic stuff. My mum was a native speaker. In conversation I remember hearing her talking to her sisters. It was a stream of gaelic mixed with modern words like television etc. They borrowed the words just like English has taken countless words from other languages.
There is no need to invent gaelic versions of these words
Jenny Tailor said:
OnTheBreadline said:
Jenny Tailor said:
Desiderata said:
hiccy18 said:
I'd far rather see the promotion of Scots, which is spoken by a large portion of the country on a daily basis, than seeing the museum piece that is Gaelic splattered all over things that didn't exist a century ago.
I'd agree with you, except that Scots isn't a language. It's a dialect version of the language spoken throughout the UK. Unfortunately someone somewhere chose to name that language "English" so we can't possibly admit to speaking "English" so we've had to invent one "of our own"I don't know anyone who speaks like this.
https://www.gov.scot/publications/scots-language-p...
Here is the policy in English.
https://www.gov.scot/publications/scots-language-p...
king hilarious! Phonetically writing a dialect/accent, and calling it a language! It's just mangled EnglishDo any Scots actually write English like this?
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