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For many people both outside Scotland and within, Twitter has provided a brand new view into the Scots language and its varieties in all their sweary, hysterical, sometimes incomprehensible glory.Has the platform spearheaded a resurgence amongst its young users or is this something more profound altogether?I do think it’s great how Scottish people carved out their own niche and quickly pushed it to being one of the most prominent, albeit infamous, collectives on the platform,” agrees Twitter user Butsay.While Butsay regularly finds himself amongst lists of Scottish Twitter’s funniest tweets, he and others also use the platform to discuss serious and sometimes contentious issues in the Scots language, exactly as they might over a drink or in a casual conversation.In a way social media is helping to establish a whole new Scots prose tradition.” Dr.Ryan has studied the use of Scots on Facebook by pre-teen girls and sees parallels with its usage on Twitter.
Where Twitter has provided a space for everyday young Scots to express themselves more freely, it’s also provided an invaluable platform for the language itself to develop and evolve – and for linguists and other experts to track it as it does so. There aren’t that many articles or letters just talking about normal things.Twitter’s all about identity and building a persona, a public face,” points out Dr.Sadie Ryan, an English Language and Linguistics academic at the University of Glasgow and presenter of the Accentricity podcast.Scottishness” in which humour is a key component.This, says Michael Dempster, Scots Scriever and Director of the Scots Language Centre, is a radical shift from older humour in which Scottish people and their languages were the butt of jokes rather than their architects – something which has had an impact far beyond Twitter.



E Jamieson, who specialises in Scots syntax at the University of Glasgow.
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