Branch of English or a Separate Language?

[nq:1]Branch of English or a Separate Language? www.sottish.parliament.uk/vli/language/scots/index.htm[/nq]
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[nq:1]Branch of English or a Separate Language?[/nq]
A dialect. As far as I know, everyone who speaks Scots understands most forms of English. I'm not sure if it works the other way around, though.

Scots could be categorized as a separate language if Scotland was an independent state and had an army. I don't know who originally stated this idea of languages having armies, but it works

[nq:1]Branch of English or a Separate Language? www.sottish.parliament.uk/vli/language/scots/index.htm[/nq]
It helps to spell the URL correctly:
www.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/language/scots/index.htm

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[nq:2]Branch of English or a Separate Language?[/nq]
[nq:1]A dialect. As far as I know, everyone who speaks Scots understands most forms of English. I'm not sure if ... and had an army. I don't know who originally stated this idea of languages having armies, but it works here.[/nq]
The traditional Chinese character for "nation" ("guo") contains a pictograph of a lance (for an army), a mout

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[nq:1]Scots could be categorized as a separate language if Scotland was an independent state and had an army. I don't know who originally stated this idea of languages having armies, but it works here.[/nq]
Max Weinreich: "A language is a dialect with an army and a navy."

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[nq:2]A dialect. As far as I know, everyone who speaks ... this idea of languages having armies, but it works here.[/nq]
Max Weinreich wrote, in Yiddish, "A language is a dialect with an army and a navy."
It's a pleasantry; if the Scottish people think of themselves as a nation, they're certainly entitled to call their speech a language, and no one can tell them any different.
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[nq:2]The traditional Chinese character for "nation" ("guo") contains a pictograph ... a language), and what was originally earth, surrounded by borders.[/nq]
[nq:1]Good grief. Did you fall for one of those books that makes pictures out of characters?[/nq]
Analyzing them by breaking them down helps the "more mature" (older) brain remember the characters, if nothing else. Guo has 11 strokes

[nq:1]Good grief. Did you fall for one of those books that makes pictures out of characters?[/nq]
Sounds like many of us have been misled, Peter. Set us straigh!

[nq:1]It's a pleasantry; if the Scottish people think of themselves as a nation, they're certainly entitled to call their speech a language, and no one can tell them any different.[/nq]
The same thing can be seen here in Finland, too. Or not exactly in Finland but quite close: Finnish has been spoken both sides of the Tornio River Valley for centuries; both in Finland and in Sweden. However, t

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[nq:2]Good grief. Did you fall for one of those books that makes pictures out of characters?[/nq]
Sounds like many of us have been misled, Peter. Set us straigh![/nq]
I don't know what pictograms underlie the character he was talking about, but they weren't what he said they were.
Many books on "learning" a handful of characters