That's because Scots, German and Olde English once shared a common root from further back before branching off and becoming their own tongues, all languages, just like people, all branch off, and develop on their own.
@seroyer2 Yeah, there are even some accents in German that sound like Scottish. Indian languages like Hindi sound like they have these inflections too.
.I notice on Pre-War German produced maps of language groups in Europe Scots is a separate dialect and the only dialect of English so presented. It covers the Scottish Highlands and fades out in the lowlands and it also covers most of Ulster the only Celtic language to have a large number of speakers is first Welsh and secondly Breton which is very closely related, Irish and Scots Gaelic and Manx are less closely related and spoken by few
Scots one of the oldest tongues in the isles makes it far older than the few Anglo-Saxon refugees who settled in Lowland south Scotland, they were influenced by Scotland from successive generations not the other way round, every language in the world took influences from others, Scots had some Scots-Gallack influence which in turn had some very early Pictish root variations in it.
@dovmarcu Re-read my previous comment and you'll see I've already explained the Swedish and Finnish languages, they have completely separate origins, but that doesn't stop them from later influencing each other to a small degree.
That's true from the first 3 minutes and 58 seconds, one thing often not known in general public is that the Scots language was the first tongue to make use of the explicit word 'f u c k', by William Dunbar. The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie records a contest between William Dunbar and Walter Kennedy in front of James IV, which includes the earliest recorded use of the profanity word 'sh i t' as a personal insult also, which became common in the modern English language.
The Scots language is as distinct from the English language as pairings such as Norse is to Danish, Portugese to Spanish, Swedish to Finish and German to Dutch.
I have never heard the variety used by that fish filleter. Can anyone in Scotland confirm that this is very rare in Scotland now, or if it still exists?
@seroyer2 You know, it could be the fact that this video was filmed long before Challenger exploded. You can't go back and remove all references to Challenger or the WTC or any other thing we may not like.
Khasab and forfreedom need to read some real works of history and linguistics, and not nonsense written from ideology. Any fool who has listened to the lowland inhabitants of Scotland and then to the Scots of the Hebrides and the NW while immediately see that the language is obviously Germanic English in its roots, while the far northerners actually have accents that sound as Irish as anyone living in Ireland as befits the descendents of Irish invaders over 1300 years ago.
It is really amazing documentary .it is very helpful to understand English Story
The part where the reporter talks about how the Challenger is set to launch, its sad all this time later knowing what happened.
It is really amazing documentary .it is very helpful to understand English Story
Nadia
Some of the older documentaries are just somehow better and more informative than some of the new ones. @2:45.
the title song is soooo addicting!
Grand.
Why are productions like these not made respectively broadcasted today?
Awesome series; thanks for uploading! :-)
Excellent Video! Thanks for posting this!
That's because Scots, German and Olde English once shared a common root from further back before branching off and becoming their own tongues, all languages, just like people, all branch off, and develop on their own.
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@seroyer2 Yeah, there are even some accents in German that sound like Scottish. Indian languages like Hindi sound like they have these inflections too.
.I notice on Pre-War German produced maps of language groups in Europe Scots is a separate dialect and the only dialect of English so presented. It covers the Scottish Highlands and fades out in the lowlands and it also covers most of Ulster the only Celtic language to have a large number of speakers is first Welsh and secondly Breton which is very closely related, Irish and Scots Gaelic and Manx are less closely related and spoken by few
Scots one of the oldest tongues in the isles makes it far older than the few Anglo-Saxon refugees who settled in Lowland south Scotland, they were influenced by Scotland from successive generations not the other way round, every language in the world took influences from others, Scots had some Scots-Gallack influence which in turn had some very early Pictish root variations in it.
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@dovmarcu Re-read my previous comment and you'll see I've already explained the Swedish and Finnish languages, they have completely separate origins, but that doesn't stop them from later influencing each other to a small degree.
That's true from the first 3 minutes and 58 seconds, one thing often not known in general public is that the Scots language was the first tongue to make use of the explicit word 'f u c k', by William Dunbar.
The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie records a contest between William Dunbar and Walter Kennedy in front of James IV, which includes the earliest recorded use of the profanity word 'sh i t' as a personal insult also, which became common in the modern English language.
The Scots language is as distinct from the English language as pairings such as Norse is to Danish, Portugese to Spanish, Swedish to Finish and German to Dutch.
@kharfia70yes it is definitely an excelent documentary
I have never heard the variety used by that fish filleter. Can anyone in Scotland confirm that this is very rare in Scotland now, or if it still exists?
It is definitely still the same accent that is used today in Aberdeen.
Yes, he is speaking Doric, the dialect of the north east of Scotland which is still very much used today.
@seroyer2
You know, it could be the fact that this video was filmed long before Challenger exploded. You can't go back and remove all references to Challenger or the WTC or any other thing we may not like.
They should actually read the news like that, make it more interesting...
Khasab and forfreedom need to read some real works of history and linguistics, and not nonsense written from ideology. Any fool who has listened to the lowland inhabitants of Scotland and then to the Scots of the Hebrides and the NW while immediately see that the language is obviously Germanic English in its roots, while the far northerners actually have accents that sound as Irish as anyone living in Ireland as befits the descendents of Irish invaders over 1300 years ago.