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Saturday, April 29, 2017

I Wandered onto Scots Wikipedia Today...

And found stuff like: 
Wikipædia wants ye! We'r biggin aen encyclipædia thegather n ae wiki communitie. Ye can chynge auld airticles n cræft new yins oan Wikipædia richt nou. Gif ye haena awreadie dun it, ye micht wad lik tae cræft aen accoont (see whit fer).
the entire page of "Luve": Luve is a variety o different feelins, states, an attitudes that ranges frae interpersonal affection ("I luve ma mither") tae pleisur ("I luved that meal"). It can refer tae an emotion o a strang attraction an personal attachment.[1] It can an aa be a virtue representin human kindnesscompassion, an affection—"the unselish lyal an benevolent concern for the guid o anither".[2] It mey an aa describe compassionate an affectionate actions towards ither humans, ane's sel or ainimals.[3]


So when I first wandered on here I thought someone had played a major practical joke-- this is ridiculous. but NO this is just sco.wikipedia.org and it's ridiculously insane and why does it exist. there is no way that Scottish people actually use this instead of regular wikipedia. No. Way. 
In the spellin an grammar page, it basically says (as far as I can tell) that you can spell whatever way you want... 
Here at Wikipaedia it's recommendit that fowk uises "tradeetional" pan-dialect spellins. Awtho thir isna sae strict as in Inglis we ettle tae come up wi writin that's easy tae read an can be soondit bi readers in thair ain dialect. Ae thing tae mynd is that maist fowk that kens better disna uise the apologetic apostrophe onymair. Mair oot ower evite slang in an encyclopaedia.
O coorse maist awbody haesna been teached siclike at the schuil but wi practice it shoudna be ower deeficult. A wheen resoorces is aboot that expounds on whit "tradeetional" spellins is an hou tae applee thaim in a conseestant mainer.
We ettle tae follae the wey set oot bi the Report an Recommends o the Scots Spellin Comatee, itherwise kent as the RRSSC.
Fowk that writes airticles but disna hae the Scots can eik the {{fixscots}} template or the {{Translation}} template.

Scots isna juist English written wi orra wirds an spellins. It haes its ain grammar an aw. If aw ye dae is tak an English text an chynge the spellins an swap a puckle wirds it'll juist be Scotched English an no Scots.
  • A cutty guide tae the maist kenspeckle pynts o Scots grammar can be fund in the Wikipaedia airticle anent the Scots leid.
  • Jottins on grammar fae Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd..
  • A weel wrocht descreeption fae Scots-Online
  • The entries in the Scottish National Dictionary (SND) (see Dictionars ablo) gies guidance anent the richt semantic an gramatical uiss o wirds.


The main raison is for ti dae awa wi arguments ower the richt spellins o words. That wastes time better spent writin new text for airticles. Ti settle on the ae wey o spellin we needit to wale a staundard. Monie staundards haes bin proponed ower the years an we hae taen the hindmaist ane, the RRSSC, sin it is the hindmaist.
The RRSSC haes bin pit thegither by fowk that ken the work they're daein for the maist pairt. It's nae perfick an there's a twa-three pynts that ae body or anither disna like. Houaniver gin Scots prose is ti gang onywey in Scots eddication, prose writers maun rally roond ae staundart. Maist o the fowk writin for the Scots Wikipaedia haes chuisen tae rally roond this ane till a better comes alang.
Twa ither policies micht hae been waled but they baith haev waur fauts than the RRSSC.
"Oniething gaes" haes bin tried on the English Wikipedia whaur American/English spellins are baith allooed. It leads tae pyntless argument in the lang run (an mibbies e'en in the short run). Forbye it micht lead tae accusations o Doric bias or Lallans bias at some pynt. Anither pynt is that we maun hae uniform spellin gin we want ti be a richt encyclopaedia.
"A seistem o wir ain" is ower muckle wark. Oor aim is tae write an encyclopaedia an that's a muckle job in its ain richt. The RRSSC has awready duin a deal o wark on spellin an there's little need for us ti dae the wark ower again. It's better that we juist uise whit they've duin. Oor aim shuid be tae mak a wheen o encyclopaedia airticles wi as little distraction as we dow -- nae ti mak yet anither Scots spellin seistem.
That said, there's nae doot that fowk winna write the RRSSC wey whan they contreibute. It's nae easy whan ye daena ken it. Nane o us wis taucht Scots spellin, sae we canna be expeckit ti get it richt. We shuid tak text spelt onywey athoot compleenin or rushin ti fix it richt awa. Houaniver awbody shuid mynd that we aim ti correct spellins ti the RRSSC standard suiner or later.

WHY WOULD PEOPLE DO THIS WITH THEIR TIME??????// "None of us were taught Scots spelling, so we cannot be expected to get it right" you say??? THEN WHY DO YOU SPEND TIME ON THIS????? oiiii

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