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I was away from home when I first read this post, and trying to read it on my tablet. Amazing how many twitter, reddit, etc. threads the tablet simply will not display properly.

2) Yeah. The newspaper columnist Bob Greene wrote in his memoir about when he was an intern in 1964 and accompanied a woman from the editorial dept when she had an errand that caused them to pass through the compositors' room. All the guys then started hooting and howling and cavorting around, and generally acting (Greene does not make this comparison) like Tex Avery characters. Greene was aghast, but the woman ignored it. "They act this way to all women," she said.

7) I've never seen Scots criticized for being new or (in the sense meant here) artificial, only for being a low-class dialect. Which of course is the origin of many now-respected languages (Norwegian from Danish is cited in the article; Dutch from German, though of older origin, is another obvious European example, and for that matter Afrikaans from Dutch), thus illustrating the truth of the maxim I learned in elementary linguistics, a language is a dialect with an army.