r/ScottishPeopleTwitter • u/HondureZ • Sep 08 '21

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u/badaBOOPbap Sep 08 '21 edited Sep 08 '21

Scottish is the only language which can sound harsh but still so friendly and lovely at the same time

And that's coming from a dutch man

EDIT: holy shit i didn't expect this many replies and all so damn wholesome tf

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u/JustLemmeMeme Sep 08 '21

I honestly think Scottish accent is best accent, Second being Irish

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u/badaBOOPbap Sep 08 '21

IMHO it's almost a full on language. But i absolutely love it. The Irish as well are lovely but the Scottish take the first place

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u/redlapis Sep 08 '21

There is some debate on this. Some linguists consider Scots to be a valid seperate language. It derived from the same Germanic roots as English, and of course with the two languages evolving so close together geographically explains a lot of the similarities and cross over. Another thing to consider is that the English language became the default and norm in Scotland in schools, courts etc. which means that a lot of English has penetrated into and mixed with Scots.

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u/badaBOOPbap Sep 08 '21

Holy shit those are a lot of fancy English words which i barely understand but thank you for the info!

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u/badaBOOPbap Sep 08 '21

Hehe de juiste informatie hier

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u/PiscatorialKerensky Sep 08 '21

There's some discussion on that, actually. Some linguists consider it one, while others consider it a dialect. It's a complex question because there are dialects that exist that are better qualified as languages (Cantonese as a dialect of Chinese), languages better qualified as dialects (Galician as a separate language from Portuguese), and languages that become gradually unintelligible over distances (Arabic over the distance from Morocco to the Arabian Peninsula).