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andrewducker- On Scots language, colonialism, history, and Disney memes
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- A flagship tidal energy turbine has generated more electricity in its first year than Scotland's entire wave and tidal sector produced before it.
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- "Do you honestly believe that Britain is better off outside of the EU?"　That was the question Channel 4 News asked Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn six times...
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- Steep decline in student belief that God created humans, 32-year Australian study reveals
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- Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany, New Research Suggests
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- Government launches new export strategy which...doesn't have any strategy in it
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- Sex, religion and a towering treatise on anatomy
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- 15 large companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree
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- New Attack Recovers RSA Encryption Keys from Electromagnetic Waves Within Seconds (from up to 20cm away!)
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Date: 2018-08-22 01:33 pm (UTC)I agree that it's largely seen as working class in Scotland and the rest of the Uk at the moment. Except, perhaps, for little bits of usage by the middle classes, such as using "aye" or "dreich" or offering people a dram rather than a glass.
I think it used to be a much higher status language. During the late medieval and early renaissance periods Scots was the language of central and centralising government. Scottish legislation used to be written in Scots (with bits of Latin-origin legal jargon sprinkled through-out). This legislation was one of the tools used by the Stewarts to establish de facto control over the crinkley bits (which more often spoke Gaelic and Norse and other languages).
At the time English was a bit different. Perhaps more of a language group than the single language with regional dialects it is seen as today. The first Stewart king, Robert II was crowned about half way through Chaucer's life. The English Parliament was only opened in English for the first time in 1362, by Chaucer's friend, the bi-lingual (English and Norman French ) Edward III.
Part of the lowering in status of Scots is the process of English as spoken by the English become a more codified, standardised language, and post the Angevin Empire, the 100 Years War and the War of the Roses, the state language of the nation-state of England. Once the English elite were speaking a single standard version of English and England was a global power then then the status of Scots waned. When Scots was one English language amongst many it could be the langauge of government in Scotland. Once English was one langauge, Scots was gradually displaced in use for higher status speakers by a more standard English.
Scots currently doesn't have the romantic overtones of Gaelic. It's definately seen as proper English done wrong by poor people rather than one language in the group of English languages.
As for the role of Scots in the global system of imperial colonisation and exploitation, there's a class element to that. Before a bayonet was a weapon with a worker at both ends a bayonet was a weapon with a Highlander at both ends.
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Date: 2018-08-23 08:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-08-23 08:25 am (UTC)Tidal energy turbine
Date: 2018-08-22 03:33 pm (UTC)Re: Tidal energy turbine
Date: 2018-08-22 03:40 pm (UTC)Re: Tidal energy turbine
Date: 2018-08-23 08:16 am (UTC)Re: Tidal energy turbine
Date: 2018-08-23 08:17 am (UTC)Re: Tidal energy turbine
Date: 2018-08-27 01:09 pm (UTC)University degrees.
Date: 2018-08-22 06:32 pm (UTC)On the other hand, work that didn't originally even have degrees available (computer science, etc) often allowed self-taught individuals in at entry-level but then belatedly placed bars on upper level positions using degrees. Once a person was in a position that looked like it would lead upwards and had a family/mortgage, then the ability to go back and attain a degree was extremely restricted - and quite conveniently kept the "wrong people" out of the upper level positions.
Even now, the main purposes of university is to (a) transition people through the awkward self-invention phase, and (b) teach people how to present themselves. It is seldom about the actual subject matter, since anyone intelligent enough to enter university is intelligent enough to acquaint themselves with the material. The pleasure of meeting similarly minded people is also not to be discounted - and this informal networking can be advantageous.
So, while degree requirements may disappear from official job descriptions, it may become an unacknowedged, unofficial requirement for upper level positions, similar to "must have testicles" requirement which has never gone away.
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Date: 2018-08-24 10:29 am (UTC)Except it's not new (article date below: 7-2015);
https://bgr.com/2015/07/08/hacking-tools-pita-encryption-keys-radio-waves/