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UNESCO recognizes it as a vulnerable language (Gaelic is considered more severely as “endangered”).

The Scots Wikipedia is exactly what it sounds like, an alternate wikipedia where the articles are all written in Scots. There are other wikipedias that provide content for other languages the same way. It helps preserve and give access to a threatened and underrepresented language, which is invaluable.

About 16 hours ago, it was discovered that an American teenager has been editing and writing articles not in Scots, but in an American’s disrespectful phonetic take on what he thinks Scots sounds like. 

“The problem is that this person cannot speak Scots. I don’t mean this in a mean spirited or gatekeeping way where they’re trying their best but are making a few mistakes, I mean they don’t seem to have any knowledge of the language at all. “

This problem isn’t unique to this incident. Frequently on tumblr I see Americans making jokes about Scottish actors making what they’ve called “garbled Scottish sounds” and attempting (and failing) to type in Scots. Scottish languages have been decimated over the centuries, and Scots Wikipedia should be an amazing language resource.

The worst part? He’s apparently been at this for YEARS. He’s edited or penned nearly 1/3 of Scots Wikipedia. Apparently when Scots speakers have corrected him in the past, he’s had a “haughty attitude,” claiming that other Scots speakers (who were never present, unsurprisingly) approved of his failed attempts at writing in Scots.

The damage is heart wrenching:

“Potentially tens of millions of people now think that Scots is a horribly mangled rendering of English rather than being a language or dialect of its own, all because they were exposed to a mangled rendering of English being called Scots by this person and by this person alone.

They wrote such a massive volume of this pretend Scots that anyone writing in genuine Scots would have their work drowned out by rubbish. Or, even worse, edited to be more in line with said rubbish.

Wikipedia could have been an invaluable resource for the struggling language. Instead, it’s just become another source of ammunition for people wanting to disparage and mock it, all because of this one person and their bizarre fixation on Scots, which unfortunately never extended so far as wanting to properly learn it.”

Even worse, many people are praising this kid as the all-time most dedicate “troll,” as funny, etc. It’s inexcusable.

There’s a couple of things I can add to it but OP and @vampireapologist have covered all the good points.

1. It’s disappointing that wiki admins are saying it’s either ‘try to fix what’s there or you’ll have no Scots wikipedia at all’ - there are hundreds, if not thousands, of ridiculous translations and they should all be scrapped. BUT that shouldn’t deny anyone the right to contribute to a new Scots wikipedia. The issue with trying to fix what’s currently there is that while the process is ongoing it’s going to be mixed in with articles that are being fixed.

2. This is basically an act of linguistic vandalism. It’s horrible to hear that no one working or administrating Wikipedia took any time to verify what was actually being published. It’s fed into the rhetoric that Scots is ‘English slang’ or a butchered version of English. And it absolutely shouldn’t have been some American cunt with no knowledge of the language.

3. I’ve encountered many people on tumblr whenever I’ve spoken up about Scots and the harm that they’re awful fucking attempts at the language are. Some have listened, some haven’t.

Originally I was going to write a whole essay on this but frankly I don’t want to and have other things to do. If someone asks I can provide sources. Anyways I still feel like what ayeforscotland says about this matter specifically still stands (the purposeful persecution of Celtic languages is an act of genocide and not a joke) and a quite a few of people have anyways rbed from me so this is more of an update. Basically, don’t take them as completely reliable.

I agree! I am not confident in Netflix, but I wasn’t very confident in the original creators showing good rep either. For me, the casting of Katara and Sokka will be what I look to most, at least in terms of casting.

I think this would be a good show to see a lot more Indigenous people behind the camera, too. The way the og creators muddled Inuit and Japanese cultures together didn’t sit right with me.

That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

Have an iPhone and are in need of repairs

Have a friend with that problem

Hate Apple and are more than happy to spite them in some way

So I asked the internet, well how hard IS it to repair? And I saw this guy’s video, and while I am no techie, I AM fueled by spite, so I was all “oh, they do that shit on purpose specifically so they can charge me $1200 bucks or make me buy a new computer hunh? FUCK THEM” and I bought all the tools I needed for about $25 and I bought all the parts I needed for about another $25 and I watched a few tutorial videos, and I replaced my own keyboard.

So, once you are doing the actual deed, it becomes pretty obvious that they are finding creative ways to make this much harder than it has to be on purpose. On thing that stood out to me is, instead of all the tiny screws being the same size, there are about two dozen very slightly different sizes. They could easily be all the same size, or like, two sizes at most, but no.

These mother fuckers will take a panel that screws into place and they’ll use a different size screw for each corner. They are so close that you almost cannot tell them apart visually, but they each will only screw into the matching corner. Like, it’s a pretty clear “fuck you” to anyone trying to do repairs.

Sorry if it’s a little cramped- had to make this all fit in ten photos. Hope you guys like it….. and again…. sorry Andrew

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