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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by mbg721 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:55AM (#27221134)
For the benefit of confused Americans like myself: English as it is spoken in Scotland, Scots, and Scots Gaelic are three different things.
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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by biztos on Thursday May 20, 2021 @10:04AM (#27221224)
Interesting, I think Wikipedia is saying it's a distinct language that shares a lot of words etc with English:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language

And I admit I have no idea where the line is between a dialect, and that.

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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by meepmorp on Thursday May 20, 2021 @10:29AM (#27221548)
> And I admit I have no idea where the line is between a dialect, and that.

It's usually based around a combination of factor - mutual intelligibility, orthographic conventions, etc. Also, of course, "a language is a dialect with an army and navy."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...

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