Are you really telling me there's a difference between the Irish and the Scots? Feck off with your propaganda

And for what I heard, Ido is an updated/improved form of Esperanto, so Esperanto is already pretty backward...

Irish Gaelic = Gay-lick
Scottish Gaelic = Gar-lick

I'd rather have garlic than a gay lick me.

garlic!

Feck off with your propaganda

Another Scottish word, Feck.

We are secretly DOMINATING you!

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I'd rather have English

the Scottish language is the true and historical language of Scotland, whereas your "Scot" Ox is a dialect of English imposed by the Anglosaxon and Anglo-Norman invaders in the Middle Age.
The true language of Alba is Scottish, not Scot.

Lets be honest Ox, you defend the Scot dialect because you are rather lazy to learn a total different language compared to the English patois you defend currently :P

Edited 5/24/2016 16:32:45

Btw found a more "relevant" language as an international language now: Unish.

Unish, invented by Korean scholars, gathers the 15 most widespread and useful language in the world, so it takes in count not only "European languages" (like Esperanto) but also other World's language such as Chinese, Arabic or Hindi.

No, don't pretend to know Scottish languages.

the Scottish language is the true and historical language of Scotland

No, by "the Scottish language", you mean Gaelic. Gaelic was never historically influential in Scotland: never.

There is no such thing as "Scottish".

And no, there is a Scottish-English dialect that is obviously called "Scottish-English". At least read the first line of that article I posted.

No tae be ramfeeselt wi Scots Inglis or Scots Gaelic leid.

Translated: Not to be confused with "Scottish-English" or "Scottish Gaelic"

So,

1. Stop pretending "Scottish" exists.
2. Recognise these 3 layers
a) Gaelic (language)
b) Scots (language)
c) Scottish-English (dialect of English)

so stop spewing lies.

Edited 5/24/2016 16:36:59

Never influential? Ever heard of the Kingdom of Alba? Even the Old and True Scottish Kings (that referred themselves as "rí Alban", old Scottish for King of Alba, Alba being Scotland native's name) used Scottish not your perverted form of English... Frankly it is a patois/a slang/a dialect but not a separate language for what I see.
And wanting this language dead is rather neglecting your own nation's history Ox, sad to see this.

As for Spanish, I highly doubt it is harder than English. It is more the contrary for what I know.

Spanish is hard for the same grounds that French is, it has needless conjugations and tenses (especially subjunctivity). As for Turkish, example sentence.

18 yaşından küçüklere alkollü içki ve sigara satışı yapmıyoruz.

Word by word tranduction:
18.his years away from.smallfolk.alcoholic.booze.and.cigars.forbidden.not making

Normal English traduction: We do not sell alcoholic drinks or cigars to folk under the age of 18.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yapmak

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/i%C3%A7ki

Anyone speaking Belgian?

drunk French/Dutch*

Belgian as the next international language!
I read that in some part of Belgium they were planning in the past to make Esperanto as an official language x) (see Neutral Moresnet)

miljarde!

What is this cancer?

I'm sorry, but I couldn't care less for a language that has about 70,000 native speakers, most of which can also speak Scots / English. It wastes money because all legislature has to be passed into Scottish Gaelic, and there is no legitimate reason to keep this language around. Scots and Scottish-English are nation-wide languages that most anybody can speak, so why have a 3rd one that has less than 100k speaking it? Useless.

Some parts of Spanish are indeed harder than English (conjugation of verbs is an example); but frankly by empirical evidences, it is not that hard, and there are not that much irregularities unlike in French (since there are even more common patterns in Spanish that French misses!) or even sometimes in English (numerically more irregular verbs in English than in Spanish). So once you know the general rules of Spanish grammar + the few irregular verbs, you will get it frankly.
In the other hand, in terms of spelling (no errors possible, everything is spelled as pronounced), pronounciation (it is always consistent), there are not as many words as English for a same meaning (since English often uses English/germanic and French/latin words for the same term), so again you would have to convince me and prove me better how English is easier...

(Gosh Pablo is going to think I am turning mad, I am defending Spanish now...)

Outer orkney is where the true Scots live, not backstabbers like you.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Scots_Gaelic_speakers_in_the_2011_census.png

They have their own independence movement there, actually, separate from Scotland and Britain.

@Ox
So by the fact Scottish is is an endangered language it should die? Well do you realize that only 100-200 years ago, Scottish was way more spoken than nowadays?
The Scottish people do not have that much resistance it appears when it is about protecting their own national language, but do not worry at all, you can still revive it ;)
And waste of money? Not really, it is more a proof of laziness and general surrender of your own culture, Euskara was successfully revived (mostly in the Spanish side) with not that much waste of money, but because people cared about their ancestral language. Same could be done in Scotland if people cared a little more about their ancestral language and culture.

As for Spanish, I highly doubt it is harder than English. It is more the contrary for what I know.

Because your mother tongue itself is similar to Spanish, duh.
English having simplest grammar and relatively short words (comparing to other european languages) isn't at all a bad pick for international language, really.

Also I wouldn't bother with esperanto, it's too artificial for me.

well Onoma, one question: do you know Spanish? And frankly French and Spanish are not that much similar, even if they are from the same language family, they are very different. And btw, you can say I have a biased view due to it, but I guess my views are less biased than yours anyway as I learnt both English and Spanish (+ I am from a family background where people spoke a non Indo European language which has nothing in common with these languages!), whereas you apparently know only English, rather hard to compare 2 languages when you know almost nothing about one of the 2, duh.

Short words ahah, Spanish words are most of the time shorter, because there is no some stupid orthographic inconsistencies like in English or French. With Spanish no-frills at all.

By "simplest" you imply here English is the easiest language compared to all others, prove it.