Re: whether Scots is a language When I was a DC tour guide I once told one of my friends about the statue they have of Taras Shevchenko in front of the Ukrainian Embassy "Shevchenko is considered the national poet of Ukraine and founder of the Ukrainian language movement"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
It is, the same way French Canadian is one. Oc and Oïl were both old French dialects and we just kept the former instead of the latter. Fun fact: Oïl used to be the language of the bourgeoisie. They beheaded their elites to then keep the language around afterwards. I don't get it
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Replying to @MsVilecatShoppe
The French Revolution is like the classic example of a revolution whose leaders claimed to hate the elite while just wanting to be the new elite
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