Lyrics & Knowledge Personal Pages Record Shop Auction Links Radio & Media Kids Membership Help
The Mudcat Cafesj



User Name Thread Name Subject Posted
GUEST,Scabby Doug Help: Scottish text to Silent Night (39) RE: Help: Scottish text to Silent Night 04 Dec 01


I think that perhaps Robinia is labouring under some sort of misapprehension about the languages spoken/used here in Scotland.

The Church of Scotland has always been heavily inclined towards Standard English. Recently there have been some "translations" or renderings of the Bible into vearious versions of Scots or Lallans or "The Doric".

Translations of hymns, psalms, or the Bible into Gaelic are older - indeed some English hymns are the result of Gaelic-English translations.

To the best of my knowledge, there has never been anything much done about translating hymns. a)There wouldn't be any need.. (I don't think there are any Gaelic monoglots left) and despite what you might assume from films like Trainspotting - we do all sort of speak English - even if it doesn't sound like that...

b) Into what language? If it's not Gaelic and not "Doric" -i.e. Scots... I can't imagine what other language we might find useful!

Cheers

Steven


Post to this Thread -

Back to the Main Forum Page

By clicking on the User Name, you will requery the forum for that user. You will see everything that he or she has posted with that Mudcat name.

By clicking on the Thread Name, you will be sent to the Forum on that thread as if you selected it from the main Mudcat Forum page.

By clicking on the Subject, you will also go to the thread as if you selected it from the original Forum page, but also go directly to that particular message.

By clicking on the Date (Posted), you will dig out every message posted that day.

Try it all, you will see.