Wasn't Scottish the
same language as English but with a different accent? That's what I thought,
but apparently, according to Episode 4 of The Story of English, it isn't.
The video starts with a Scottish newswoman giving
the news, obviously. At first, I thought she was joking or something but then I
realized it’s the actual way they speak. It was actually really funny.
This episode talks basically about the origins of
the Scottish tongue and it’s difference with regular English.
The narrator tells us that “during the fifteenth
century, Scottish was the speech of kings and aristocrats and the inspiration
of poets.” (3:38). Which is basically telling us that it was the language of
the upper class.
I really don’t understand why this language was
classified that important if to me it sounds like a joke. Well, that’s just me.
Anyways, times have changed and thank God now a day it is not denominated as a
“high class language”.
I googled “Scotland” and only images of castles, fields
and landscapes appeared. They were pretty amazing. Now I understand people’s
need for learning this language. Times have not changed; everybody has always
wanted to be denominated as high class, especially in such a beautiful country
as Scotland.
