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2026-03-30 14:47 UTC

@bodhipaksa Irish was systematically suppressed here for centuries. That was internalized as shame and extended to Irish English: I know someone who wrote an Irish English idiom in school and was made cut it out of her copybook with a scissors and bury it in a hole in the ground outside

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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot 2026-03-30 16:06

@stancarey I'd imagined that there would be the same kind of linguistic shaming, although I'd hoped to hear that independence had led people to have more pride in their local idioms. We'll have to remember in Scotland that the colonized mindset can persist for generations after independence.

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@clickhere@mastodon.ie 2026-03-31 13:18

@stancarey @bodhipaksa Holy crap.

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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot 2026-03-31 13:29

@stancarey I just remembered the case of a Scots teenager who was jailed for the offense of using a single Scots word — "aye" — in court. https://www.scotsman.com/news/ayes-dont-have-it-as-sheriff-bans-scots-yes-in-court-2465467

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@hamishb@mstdn.ca 2026-03-31 14:30

The English did the same to Indigenous languages throughout North America, too. It's weird that they're so concerned with the purity of their language when it is itself a hybrid of several others, and has evolved a lot over the years. @stancarey @bodhipaksa

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