Stigmatized varieties of Gaelic

Language Log 2016-03-22

Summary:

St. Patrick's Day was last Thursday, but this afternoon I saw someone wandering around in a sparkly green top hat.  In that spirit, I offer a post about perhaps-fictional attitudes towards a variety of Scottish Gaelic. The content comes from Ken MacLeod's novella The Human Front, which the publisher's blurb calls "a comedic and biting commentary on capitalism and […]

Link:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=24774

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Tags:

sociolinguistics

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

03/22/2016, 14:40

Date published:

03/20/2016, 20:31