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[dhampyresa]

So I just found out that some US jerkass vandalised the Scots language version of Wikipedia by writing articles in English with a phonetic accent which WOW FUCK YOU.

As a speaker of a minority language (brezhoneg) I am kind of righteously mad? It's hard enough finding resources about/in small languages without people deliberately pissing in the pot, ffs.

Thankfully brezhoneg looks nothing like French, so whenever I visit the bzh wiki in peace, but that doesn't help Scots speakers, does it?

(Yes. I sometimes visit the brezhoneg wiki. I am trying to improve my literacy, ok.)

(Most recently I was looking at the page for Kartada (Carthage), because I was looking for thie bit of info "Dont a ra hec'h anv eus ar Fenikianeg Qart-ḥadašt (diskrivadenn vrezhonekaet: Kart C'hadacht)" ie "Its name comes from the Phoenician Qart-ḥadašt (transliterated in breton as Kart C'hadacht)" (bolding mine). Just needed to make sure I was pronouncing it right in my head. Which I was, having assumed the ḥ to be be equal to c'h on absolutely no basis at all. /end tangent)

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[rydra_wong]

FWIW, the Scots Wikipedia clusterfuck does not seem to have been malicious, "just" the result of extreme ignorance and teenagerhood -- kid who didn't understand that running some words through an online English-Scots dictionary does not qualify as "translation", and refused to listen when actual speakers started calling him on things.

It's still a shitshow but does not seem to have been deliberate vandalism.

https://vampireapologist.tumblr.com/post/627559173225431040/yall-i-reblogged-that-post-with-additional

Scots language experts have put out a call for actual Scots speakers to help unfuck the Wikipedia, and seem on for using it as an opportunity to build interest in the actual language:

https://twitter.com/DrMDempster/status/1298702920221896704
https://www.facebook.com/groups/357351445642702/?ref=share

[dhampyresa]

refused to listen when actual speakers started calling him on things.
That's when it tips over into malice, for me.

I am glad Scots speakers have done something good with this!