A bonie gray (Burns Day)

Jan 25, 2010 06:40

Happy 251st birthday, Robert Burns! And happy Burns Day to the Scots around the world who are having suppers in his honor tonight.

I'm embedding this because I have to celebrate a holiday tradition that involves the recitation of a poem containing the phrase "gushing entrails."

To a Haggis

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Burns wrote a *lot* of poetry about pretty much ( Read more... )

poetry, horses, scotland, robert burns

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nutmeg3 January 25 2010, 14:23:44 UTC
I think that poem is in a foreign language! But I love the idea of it.

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rustydog January 25 2010, 16:35:00 UTC
The UK government officially recognizes Scots as a distinct language! But linguists debate where to place it on a continuum of dialect to language and what's influencing what. Sometimes I think it's easier to understand when you hear it spoken, but sometimes not. I don't understand every word of that poem, but enough to understand what's going on. :)

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travels_in_time January 25 2010, 16:46:59 UTC
It's like "Jabberwocky"! Where you have no idea what the individual words mean, but somehow you can still get a definite sense of what the whole thing is about.

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rustydog January 25 2010, 16:53:56 UTC
Yes, that's so true! And that's pretty much what reading English is like for most of my students. :)

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