TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Maybe it should have been "Welcome to Scotland. We're not always drunk you know." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest idol_wild Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Yeah, Northern Ireland is the best small country in the world!(Actually, it's a rubbish hole. A disgrace of a country. I actually prefer Scotland now! Never thought you'd hear me say that, eh Pil?)Actually, I knew you'd come to your senses eventually. You are capable of reason, from time to time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 hopefully on the aberdeen sign it will be in doric rather than gaelic.I hope that's a joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
framheim Posted November 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 I hope that's a joke.why? doric's still spoken to some extent by the majority of people living in the north-east even if it's just the odd fit like thrown around here and there.or are you above a bit o doric? should they have it in binary instead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RF Scott Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 "Scotland - bleaker than that film, The Deer Hunter"that'd be a good slogan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RF Scott Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Or, "Welcome to Scotland - you can fly to other countries from this airport. Do it now." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Steven Dedalus Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 "Scotland - bleaker than that film, The Deer Hunter"that'd be a good slogan.I like it!It neatly sums up my time there.I'd like to chip in with:"Scotland: there was nothing to do, so I had to make my own entertainment."or:"Scotland: Where I became an alcoholic." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest idol_wild Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 "Scotland: Where I became an alcoholic."You are one of the worst drinkers I've ever met though!Feeble excuse for an alcoholic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Surely it doesnt need to be there at all? I mean, its to welcome visitors to a country, most people can read and understand the English, but are probably left confused by the obsolete jibberish underneath!Im looking at this from a purely modern point of view and not harking back to 'Gaelic is our heritage'.Surely a purely modern point of view would accept that Gaelic is on the path to being treated as a seperate, but equal language, similar to Welsh? Only old fashioned mindsets would ignore the existence of Gaelic - particularly as it's a very real and living language. Gaelic isn't the heritage of all the country - but neither is English.And obsolete jibberish? Tell that to the people on the streets of Skye or the Western Isles then. I was in Skye in the summer and heard just as much Gaelic being spoken as English - so how is it "obsolete jibberish" if a significant amount of tourists are beng exposed to it? I was even greeted in a couple of shops with Gaelic rather than English.As for Scots - until the Scottish Government clarify their intentions regarding the language, it's probably best left well alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Gaelic - ... it's a very real and living language. The number of Gaelic speakers in Scotland has reached an all-time low, according to new figures.Numbers from the 2001 census, released on Thursday morning, confirmed the language is still in decline.The number of Gaelic speakers fell by 11% over 10 years to a figure of 58,650.This is the first time that the number has fallen below 60,000, bringing Gaelic close to the figure at which it is thought a language can no longer survive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 The number of Gaelic speakers in Scotland has reached an all-time low, according to new figures.Numbers from the 2001 census, released on Thursday morning, confirmed the language is still in decline.The number of Gaelic speakers fell by 11% over 10 years to a figure of 58,650.This is the first time that the number has fallen below 60,000, bringing Gaelic close to the figure at which it is thought a language can no longer survive.You're quoting a news story from 2003 (BBC NEWS | Scotland | Census shows drop in Gaelic speakers), yet in 2005 another news story said there were 92,400 Gaelic speakers:BBC NEWS | Scotland | Mixed report on Gaelic language2001 was 6 years ago and a lot has been done since then to revive the language, not least the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 You're quoting a news story from 2003 (BBC NEWS | Scotland | Census shows drop in Gaelic speakers), yet in 2005 another news story said there were 92,400 Gaelic speakers:BBC NEWS | Scotland | Mixed report on Gaelic language2001 was 6 years ago and a lot has been done since then to revive the language, not least the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005.Yeah, get with the times Stripey you relic. And why would having the slogan in Doric at Aberdeen airport be a joke? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartmaxwell Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 it pains to say it but I agree with Cloud on this occasion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 why would having the slogan in Doric at Aberdeen airport be a joke? I'm not the only one that equates doric with a low IQ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 I'm not the only one that equates doric with a low IQ.Do you think everyone should speak in RP like 1940s newsreaders then?Who are these comrades of yours who feel that speaking in regional variation denotes low intelligence? Does it apply to all dialects or just Doric?Any other handy indicators we can use to identify and avoid the feeble minded? The shape of their skull perhaps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Do you think everyone should speak in RP like 1940s newsreaders then?Who are these comrades of yours who feel that speaking in regional variation denotes low intelligence? Does it apply to all dialects or just Doric?Any other handy indicators we can use to identify and avoid the feeble minded? The shape of their skull perhaps?No, I don't think people should all talk in BBC english.And yeah the shape of the skull might be a giveaway. Given the fact that these people are all inbred simpletons genetic phsyiological deformities are probably quite common. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
black_matter Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 No, I don't think people should all talk in BBC english.And yeah the shape of the skull might be a giveaway. Given the fact that these people are all inbred simpletons genetic phsyiological deformities are probably quite common.Yeah but you're forgetting the fact that these people can study and educate themselves. You'll always be a complete cunt no matter how hard you try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Yeah but you're forgetting the fact that these people can study and educate themselves. Educated people do not speak doric. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossP Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Educated people do not speak doric.sigh.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Educated people do not speak doric.Au contraire, I have an MA, upper second class honours (that's 2:1 to you), and I speak doric regularly. Not all the time, but I tend to lapse into it automatically when somebody else talks doric.And the three guys who were Scotland the What? are all extremely well educated, articulate, successful in their chosen fields etc. And they speak doric. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Au contraire, I have an MA, upper second class honours (that's 2:1 to you), and I speak doric regularly. Not all the time, but I tend to lapse into it automatically when somebody else talks doric.And the three guys who were Scotland the What? are all extremely well educated, articulate, successful in their chosen fields etc. And they speak doric.Would you speak doric in a job interview? No you wouldn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Educated people do not speak doric.Really? Sunset Song (and in fact the whole of A Scots Quair) was written by an uneducated idiot, then? What about Maureen Watt of the SNP, is she an uneducated idiot too? Hang on...Stripey darling, let's face it, only uneducated idiots would make uneducated comments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Neutral Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Au contraire, I have an MA, upper second class honours (that's 2:1 to you), and I speak doric regularly. Not all the time, but I tend to lapse into it automatically when somebody else talks doric.And the three guys who were Scotland the What? are all extremely well educated, articulate, successful in their chosen fields etc. And they speak doric.Excuse my ignorance but what does MA stand for?Im pretty sure its master of arts, and having a degree in that does not mean you are well educated it just means that you are were too retarded to do anything other than draw pretty pictures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Really? Sunset Song (and in fact the whole of A Scots Quair) was written by an uneducated idiot, then? What about Maureen Watt of the SNP, is she an uneducated idiot too? Hang on...Stripey darling, let's face it, only uneducated idiots would make uneducated comments.lewis grassic gibbon did not write in doric, he affected the style to suit the subject matter in the scots quair. I take it you haven't read any of his scifi? I actually met his daughter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 I can vouch for the fact that bigsby cannot draw pretty pictures:up:Anyway....all this talk of modern 'inabootcomer' sharn like Gaelic & Doric offends my tradionalist sensitivities. The sign should be in Ancient Pict. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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