afternoon poesy entertainment

[winterbadger]

Burn's Tam O'Shanter with 'translation'

I detect some...liberties here and there with the English version, rather like listening to a French movie while readign the subtitles. But I love teh language, and I'd much enjoy seeing the Thom statues at Souter Johnnie's Cottage.

What say, john_arundel and gr_c17, are we three "ancient, trusty, drouthy cronies"? :-)

Comments

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

Translation? But it's in English to start with! What next, "translation" of Shakespeare?
Still fun to re-read, though, so thanks for the link.

[winterbadger]

Well, no, it is partly in Scots.

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

Well.... sorta. Dialect words. But it's not as if it's in Gaelic.

[winterbadger]

It's a bit more than just different words.

http://www.scotslanguage.com/
http://www.lallans.co.uk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language

[cmlc.livejournal.com]

Scots: different grammar, different vocabulary.
Other languages are partially cognate with each other - Norwegian & Danish for example are said to be closer than Scots and English.