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And got help anyone trying to learn Scots after the Wikipedia fiasco

This is an interesting problem to consider when it comes to the diaspora, who often won’t have easy access to a broad community, and so can fall into insular patterns. I think I may need to bother @mglass.bsky.social for her thoughts on this 😅

Very true :)

I do think a lot of the correction comes naturally with Irish, since more than any other language I’m aware of you’ll be mirroring constructs back while asking and answering questions

Haha, we’re in a similar boat: everything I know about printing I learned about in the context of the 1500-1800s, and I nearly drove a printer to madness by using 400yo terminology when talking about the layout of a magazine I was editing haha

And as I wrote this I just remembered that some folks did this deliberately with me in Germany when I was there, and at the time I remember noting it and really appreciating the way it corrected me in a very welcoming, non-judgemental way

It allows me to model the correct structure for them while not drawing attention to their error, and in my experience it works really well :) It’s especially useful for strong verbs.
“Dad, did you ran this morning?”
“Yes, I did run this morning”

I find this fascinating because I’ve thought a lot about how I wanted to correct my kids (PhD in English and did two classes on writing pedagogy during my coursework), and what I settled on was simply including the thing they make the error on in my response to them in a natural way

Hmm, sounds like there’s an opportunity for a pen pal group :)

Goodness yes this—I’m in such an awkward spot right now, stuck in that exact language learning doldrums. God bless @richieconroy.bsky.social for doing his part to fill that gap. I’ve also been reading this book of late, which has also filled that gap well www.mayobooks.ie/Short-Storie...

Fuck normalizing hateful politics and fuck playing nice for access.

This isn’t a game!

Vannevar

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Creativity is so rude that way

Ooh, discovering this late in the month but my 7yo will be so thrilled to know this exists!