Scotland could leave the UK, and join Canada instead, says author - Polidicks

PLEASE JOIN US

Fuck yes! [URL="http://www.gunghaggis.com/"]Gung Haggis Fat Choy[/URL] forever! When the US's incredible meat import restrictions were in place during the Mad Cow Disease scare, Canadian haggis was smuggled across the border into the US for Burns Night and other times because haggis was otherwise banned from the US. Name me another country in the world, other than Scotland, that would particpate in haggis smuggling. :v:

[QUOTE=El Burro;52070908]Och aye buddy, haggis and Hortons all roond, eh.[/QUOTE] I DON'T KNOW TO READ THIS IN AN EDINBURGH ACCENT, MY OWN (Glaswegian) OR CANADIAN

I would be very okay with this.

[QUOTE=Lollipoopdeck;52072254]I DON'T KNOW TO READ THIS IN AN EDINBURGH ACCENT, MY OWN (Glaswegian) OR CANADIAN[/QUOTE] And where it gets fun is, that's more an Ontario/easterner accent than a "Canadian" accent, talking about regional dialects. I live in BC and on this side of the Rockies, we sound more like people in coastal US states (CA WA etc.) than we do people on the other side of the mountains. Canada's linguistic flavours run east-west across the prairies until you hit Quebec, but north-south on the west coast. To me, only the "eh" is accurate. :v:

[QUOTE=Craigewan;52070856]Except if we go with Canada they have both Nova Scotia and Old Scotia... They'd have the complete set.[/QUOTE] Mighty Morphin' Power Jocks Through the power of Bucky, they transform into MEGASCOT!

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;52071533]I think china and india would be much better off broken up into smaller units too. Both countries have a lot of their own problems relating to their size when the government has to administer a complex society stretching half a dozen timezones it causes a lot of problems "reforming" the united states to fix things would pretty much require you to dismantle the entire socio-political system there[/QUOTE] I thought you were always pro EU, this seems to go against that view.

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;52072100]it's not necessarily a bad thing, just that regionalism and the like in such countries is heavily discouraged and suppressed at times. the united states more or less wiped out most of its native population (the few ones left being pressured to assimilate), annexed a few sovereign nations later on (like hawaii) and there are political movements and parties that are trying very hard to discourage the use of spanish or other minority languages - for instance by attempting to prevent the printing of official documents in those languages i can only imagine in the future as more regional linguistic and cultural variations develop there will be also moves to suppress those by the central government too[/QUOTE] That's just damn absurd. Yes, those things happened, and yes, it's awful that they happend but it doesn't mean that linguistics that develop from our nation itself are at risk of being suppressed. We already have regional linguistics and no one gives a shit. The highest amount of linguistic suppression that I've seen in America is teachers telling you that "ain't" is not a word. No one cares about Cajuns or people in Little Italy or Chinatown speaking their own languages or dialects. On top of that modern technology and culture has made our nation too close-knit to allow a region to develop in a linguistically radical way. Look at Afrikaans in comparison. It developed in an age without instant communication and entertainment and it was a result of being on the opposite side of the globe from European Dutch. And even then Dutch people can [B]still[/B] understand it with little difficulty if they hear it being spoken. Significant linguistic deviation is not gonna happen, and even if it did, the process would be so gradual that no one in the government, state or federal, would care because all the people that would speak it would have absolutely no difficulty communicationg with other English speakers.

[QUOTE=UK Bohemian;52073054]I thought you were always pro EU, this seems to go against that view.[/QUOTE] european union isn't a centralized state by any means at all even the early united states had a stronger central government than the EU has ever had [editline]8th April 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Hidole555;52073108]Significant linguistic deviation is not gonna happen, and even if it did, the process would be so gradual that no one in the government, state or federal, would care because all the people that would speak it would have absolutely no difficulty communicationg with other English speakers.[/QUOTE] uh significant changes have been going on in america for a while now (and are continuing). ebonics is an obvious example of a dialect moving towards becoming its own language, while the northern cities in america are developing a vowel shift (the kind of development in a language that separates old and modern english) plus america is a pretty young country (it's not a nation btw, there is no real american nation) - and the frontier only closed up towards the end of the 19th century. you'd have to give it another couple of centuries before these things fully blossom. the whole argument about "modern technology doesn't allow a region to develop in a linguistically radical way" is bollocks when you remember the fact that regional accents are not only developing, but continue to remain strong despite the advance of modern technology also there's still the issue of about 40 million spanish speakers who sometimes get shat on depending on where they are in america because their particular local and state governments will do all they can to prevent publishing public documents and the like in spanish

Given how fucked up the UK is in terms of civil liberties, and how Scotland has, IIRC, enforced even more restrictions on civil liberties than England has, I don't know if I want them as a voting bloc in this country. I can also imagine there being a public outcry if anyone in the Scottish government ever considered this in a serious fashion because it would lead to the legalization of handguns and semi-automatic rifles in Scotland again, and the media would be dancing all over the graves of the victims of Dunblane in opposition.

[QUOTE=DogGunn;52070828]I reckon Scotland should join Australia as another State. Then we can get EU membership! :D[/QUOTE] Australia already competes in Eurovision so why the fuck not.