English dialect or not?: Science is a wey tae find oot things

[GoodTaste]

Microsoft Bing automatically detects the following as "English", yet it is almost unrecognizable. Are they written in some form of English dialect?

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Science (frae the Laitin scio, meanin "tae ken") is a wey tae find oot things. Whiles the wird "science" is uised for tae refer tae the knawledge that is fund uisin the methods o science. Fowk that daes science is cried scientists. Scientists study things bi leukin at them awfu tentily, bi meisurin them, an bi daein experiments an tests. Scientists tries tae expleen why things acts the wey thay dae, an is the wey thay …

Source: [h=2]Science - Wikipedia[/h]https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science

 

[GoesStation]

It's a close relative to English. You can discover its name if you just poke around the Wikipedia page a little. If you prefer, the URL contains a clue.

 

[probus]

It is an attempt to indicate the sounds of a Scottish person speaking English, so yes it is a dialect -- namely Scots English. Note the "sco" at the beginning of the URL. I didn't know that Wikipedia has a Scots version.

Here's a sample to show what the dialect sounds like:

https://youtu.be/le3cBRlWSE8

 

[GoesStation]

It is an attempt to indicate the sounds of a Scottish person speaking English, so yes it is a dialect -- namely Scots English.

It's actually one standardized system of Scots orthography.

 

[GoodTaste]

Okay. What does "Fowk that daes science is cried scientists" mean? Please translate it into Standard English if you could.

 

[probus]

People (folk) who do science are called scientists.

 

[Tdol]

This variant of English is regarded as being at an advanced stage of language death, with some surviving slang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Scots

 

[PeterCW]

This variant of English is regarded as being at an advanced stage of language death, with some surviving slang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Scots

Some Scots Nationalists would disagree about it being a "variant" of English.

 

[GoesStation]

Some Scots Nationalists would disagree about it being a "variant" of English.

Linguists too. Scots and English are near cousins with a common ancestor, but neither is descended from the other.

 

[Tdol]

Some Scots Nationalists would disagree about it being a "variant" of English.

Good point, though it's not a separate language like Gaelic. My apologies to the Nationalists for a careless wording.