Lowlander Lallans

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_voyager.co.nz>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 13:23:29 +1200 (NZST)


Alex Ferguson:

Me>> Hence if Loskalm is English as spoken in London, Junora is North
>> England and Janube is the Scottish Lowlands.

>*#$%! While the occassional Sassenach has reported difficulty in
>the comprehension of my dulcet speach, I think this is the first
>time I've been placed in a different linguistic _family_, even in
>analogy...

I was thinking of the Lowlands Scots speech (or Lallans) in pre-17Cth times. And the analogy was intended to point out that I considered Akemi/Janubian to be a western tongue, it was just 'not closely related', that's all.

The Highlanders OTOH...

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