Ken ye nae that
"[on the collapse of Ayr Bank] Englishmen of course suspected a plot by those canny Scots. ‘The deel away wi ye all ye English Pudding boys ken ye nae that Paper is lighter of digestion than Gold’, cries the Scot on the broomstick in the London satire reproduced here, as he zooms back to Scotland with bags full of English gold, leaving chaos and destruction in his wake." [Türkçesi: Milletlerin Zenginligi, çev. Haldun Derin, s. ???].
Can you paraphrase the second sentence?
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May the Devil take you, Englishmen (I assume the reference to puddings is meant to be derogatory, perhaps suggesting that the English resemble in looks/personality/intelligence the puddings they like to eat). Don't you know that paper (paper money? ) is easier to digest than gold?
- May the Devil take you, Englishmen (I assume the reference to puddings is meant to be derogatory, perhaps suggesting that the English resemble in looks/personality/intelligence the puddings they like to eat).
- Don't you know that paper (paper money?
- ) is easier to digest than gold?
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May the Devil take you, Englishmen (I assume the reference to puddings is meant to be derogatory, perhaps suggesting that the English resemble in looks/personality/intelligence the puddings they like to eat). Don't you know that paper (paper money? Money that exists only "on paper" and isn't real?) is easier to digest than gold?
0I'm sorry, I wrote the source wrong, the right way would be: Jonathan Conlin, Critical Lives-Adam Smith.
0Note the correspondence with English here:
ken ye nae
know you not
As languages evolve, the least likely part of any word to change is the first sound.
In older forms of English the 'k' of 'know' used to be pronounced.
CJ
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