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#So even if I was speaking at my broadest (i.e. when surrounded by relatives from West Lothian or living in Aberdeen too long)
the-busy-ghost
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LOVED the Scots question on the census, HATED the identity crisis it gave me
#Of course I can understand and read it
#Theoretically I *could* speak and write it but I don't do I
#Because I would be putting on a voice that isn't natural to me (except in particular circumstances) even though it's my mother tongue
#Still not entirely sure that a lot of what some people call 'Scots' actually counts as Scots
#I mean people with broad Shetland or Aberdeen dialects count to me
#But people who are just speaking basically English with a slight accent and an occasional 'aye' thrown in
#To me are speaking Scots English
#A descendant of both languages but not proper Scots
#So even if I was speaking at my broadest (i.e. when surrounded by relatives from West Lothian or living in Aberdeen too long)
#I'm not speaking Scots in my opinion
#I'm speaking Scots English
#But of course despite the fact I've swallowed spoken and written Scots since I was knee-high to a grasshopper
#I have a very neutral accent
#And that's all it is an accent not a full on dialect or language like Scots
#Hence the identity crisis
#I'm literally more likely actually use Old Scots- the kind they spoke in the sixteenth century- than to claim to speak modern Scots
#But does that make Scots not one of my native languages just because I don't use it in my day to day conversation with say my dad
#Who is an English speaker through and through
#I'm getting off topic and I'm not a linguist but yeah
#Essentially I've felt self-conscious about the way I talk since I was a child
#And that's only increased by the fact that though I largely speak English in a very neutral accent
#Scots is a completely natural language for me to listen to; read; or even theoretically write in
#(though again writing would come hesitantly unless I had something to actually say)
#But I almost never have to speak it
#I COULD speak Scots but I don't
#And if I did it could sound artificial unless I was talking to particular people or had something specific to say in Scots
#At the same time I refuse to disown Scots that's one of my languages
#But I still feel like a big huge Fake ticking the boxes- like someone's going to swoop down and club me for not being A Real Scots speaker
#Probably understand the language a lot better than @AndyFromGlasgow whose Scottish tweets get hundreds of likes but that's at least used
#Mind you maybe I should look at it this way- if I COULD speak French would it matter at all to the census whether I DID?
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