An American teenager who doesn't speak Scots
has been revealed as responsible for almost half of the entries on the Scots language version of Wikipedia
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Wed 26 Aug 2020, 21:54,
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A'm shocked, shocked that a' body cuid abuse sic a bonny thing as th' scots leid.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 26 Aug 2020, 22:59,
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Somewhere , a dialect writer has read this and is crying.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 27 Aug 2020, 0:02,
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same story here
www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/scots_wikipedia_fake/
but from a different angle, the comments on this site/ story can be insteresting
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This is even funnier than the Bhutanese passport gag.
The fact this guy thought he was helping out is really just the best thing about it.
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he started at age 12 and is now 19!
he's been doing it a third of his life
I wonder if he's put the fact on his CV/ Resume
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Might even help for a copy writing job.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 27 Aug 2020, 14:28,
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And nobody noticed because it's a Narnia language that nobody speaks and even fewer give a crap about. See also: Gaelic.
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