[OT] Re: Thar She Blows! - RR 2.7 ???

[Ken Ray]

On 2/12/06 1:33 PM, "Alex Tweedly" <alex at tweedly.net> wrote:

> Ken Ray wrote:
> 
>> On 2/12/06 10:16 AM, "Mathewson" <richmond at mail.maclaunch.com> wrote:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>> Sunday afternoon - fair forjeskit wi raxen up a peerie RR
>>> stack caad "IN" fae ma 5-8 bairns learnen Sudron: ye'll
>>> ken: "Put the red crayon IN the blue box" - repetive
>>> programmen o this sairt is mair a DRAG than a DROP - but it
>>> brangs the siller fae the loaf.
>>> 
>>> So, shoogle ower tae the PC thats connected tae the
>>> innernet tae tak a glisk at sic things that will tak tent o
>>> ma unco unmensefu (ae, mair fou than mensefu richt nou):
>>> 
>>> And, the Runtime Revolution website is doon, wi a sonsie
>>> message anent 'upgradin' - so Ah ken thats 2.7 comin in
>>> fast.
>>>    
>>> 
>> 
>> Uh, Richmond, can you translate this? Google and SysTran were unable to
>> translate it for me... ;-)
>> 
> C'mon Ken, it's in Scots (broad Scots, I admit, but still Scots). And
> although broad Scots arguably counts as a separate language, it's at
> least as close to English as American is.

Well, considering I'm in Wisconsin, I don't just "know" Scots. :-)

That's why I provided the "winkie" emoticon; I can "translate" some of it
(or take an educated guess) but it's pretty opaque to me.

"Fair forjeskit we raxen up a peerie" is close to English?

;-)


Ken Ray
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