Author Topic: http://www.scotslanguage.com/  (Read 917 times)

JP

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http://www.scotslanguage.com/
« on: October 02, 2015, 12:44:46 PM »
Fancy a qualification in Scots...., then this is the site for you.

I really enjoyed their take on the educational article about the Edinburgh agreement paving the way for the independence referendum and their analysis of the result which I have extracted and pasted below - my emphasis.

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A bill for holding a referendum passed through the UK Parliament and was agreed by the Scottish Parliament on 18 April 2012. It became law on 1 May 2012 as the Scotland Act 2012. On 15 October 2012 First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond and UK Prime Minister David Cameron met at St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh, and formally agreed the legal framework for the referendum. The date of the referendum was set for Thursday 18 September 2014. On that day 55% of the registered electorate voted against independence while 45% voted in favour. Or, put another way, two million of the population voted against independence while the remaining three and a half million either voted for independence, didn't vote, or never had a vote.

Oddly enough when I went to copy and paste the link to this, http://www.scotslanguage.com/articles/view/id/4216, what I got was this...

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Page not found
The requested page does not exist.
One of the articles below might be what you are looking for;

Which may be be something to do with it doing the rounds on Twitter.

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As an edit, there is a screenshot of it on the link below which is on a Twitter feed.

https://twitter.com/AgentP22/status/649669538955534336

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For anyone who has difficulty reading the  Edinburgh Agreement in English they have kindly translated it into Scots. This article is still there which is a bonus.

http://media.scotslanguage.com/library/document/The%20Embra%20Greement%202012.pdf





« Last Edit: October 02, 2015, 01:05:07 PM by JP »
How can something so perfect be so flawed.

JP

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Re: http://www.scotslanguage.com/
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2015, 03:34:23 PM »
On the day of the general election 50% of the registered electorate who chose to vote, did so for the SNP.

Or, put another way, almost 1.5 million of the electorate voted for the SNP while the remaining 2.5 million either voted against them or did not vote.
How can something so perfect be so flawed.

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Re: http://www.scotslanguage.com/
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2015, 12:51:05 PM »
Better than the 24 percent that voted for the Tories got though isn't JP  ;)
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