America first, but who is second?

Sherkeu said:
Thanks for sharing.
My 82yo dad (friesian) and his wife (dutch) were laughing so hard last week saying "Losers. They are all dead now by the way! hahahahaha" as they tried to explain to me.
Now I know what they found so funny.
(My dad also reminded me for the 1000th time that his Friesian language is the closest to English. Fun fact of the day.)

And the Dutch one is seriously the best one. Seriously. The best.
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Actually Friesian is now the second closest, because they decided Scots is a separate language from English. And I know this because my former in-laws, grandparents to 2 of my kids are/were both Friesians. One from Lemmer, the other from Leeuwarden. I blame them for my addiction to salmiak.
 
deadrose said:
Actually Friesian is now the second closest, because they decided Scots is a separate language from English. And I know this because my former in-laws, grandparents to 2 of my kids are/were both Friesians. One from Lemmer, the other from Leeuwarden. I blame them for my addiction to salmiak.
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You mean "Friesian is Second"?!!! Nooooooooo!

He won't survive the news.
Can I just call it 'fake news'? 'Alternative language facts'? Perhaps say 'Scots are total losers who can't make great pickled herring'?
 
Or just say that they had to call Scots a separate language because nobody else could understand them, even when they were sober! And of course they can't pickle herring, they keep trying to work oats and mutton into the recipe.





I'm allowed to say this only because half my ancestry is Scots-Irish. My kids may be half Friesian, but not me.
 
Sherkeu said:
You mean "Friesian is Second"?!!! Nooooooooo!

He won't survive the news.
Can I just call it 'fake news'? 'Alternative language facts'? Perhaps say 'Scots are total losers who can't make great pickled herring'?
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Feel free to tell him that it is an open question whether Scots should be considered a dialect or a language, and even if it is a language, it evolved from Middle English. The Frisian languages evolved separately from English.
 
America first, but who is second?

Nobody. Everyone else is last, of course.
 
deadrose said:
Or just say that they had to call Scots a separate language because nobody else could understand them, even when they were sober! And of course they can't pickle herring, they keep trying to work oats and mutton into the recipe.


I'm allowed to say this only because half my ancestry is Scots-Irish. My kids may be half Friesian, but not me.
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haha!
Now that you mention Scots-Irish, it occurs to me that my mother's maiden name is suspiciously Scottish......as it's ... drumroll ... Scott! She always said her side was English-Irish who 'moved' to Australia; but the name is a giant flashing clue, isn't it?

So either way, I am number 1!
(But also a total loser since I can barely understand either of them.)

Tell your kids you know of a euromutt just like them. :)


Lucian - Good point. Where it sits on the 'language tree' branches has got to count for something.
 
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