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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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[schneefink]

Yeah, the Scots wikipedia thing sucks (even if it wasn't out of malice, it's still so stupid.) Hopefully they can at least build on it. Depending on how bad it was, editing pages might be easier than creating them.

I didn't know you speak brezhoneg! Are you a native speaker or did you learn it in school/later?

[dhampyresa]

At some point incompetence becomes indistinguishable from malice.

I believe the English term is heritage speaker? It was my maternal grandparents native language but I am not (yet!) fluent in it.