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A guess thit ye kin mak apps in Scots oan Apple noo an hae them classified as Scots, raither'n English

28.12.2025 11:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Scots noo available on Apple as a preferred language 👍

(Still gies English fir aw, but it's the grunwirk tae mak the fun wirk 😉)

27.12.2025 23:49 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0

Ahem... who called it?

10/12/2024 😉

17.12.2025 04:13 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
01.11.2025 19:54 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2

It's day therty-wan o #Scotstober 2025!

A braw Halla e'en tae yees aw an weil duin tae aw thit's taen pairt!

The day's wirds are:

Tumshie
Neep
Baigie

31.10.2025 09:52 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

It's day therty o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: glabber

30.10.2025 13:24 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Thanks Emma 😊

30.10.2025 13:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dod! – that’s him nou – eik up the byne;
afore the hairth, his claen sark hing:
pit claes is waffin on the line;
merle on a rowan singin fine.

—David Purdie, “Merle on a Rowan”
#Scotstober #poem #poetry
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/merle-r...

29.10.2025 16:18 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

It's day twinty-nine o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: hing

29.10.2025 13:19 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

It's day twinty-echt o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: ingle

28.10.2025 12:46 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

It's day twinty-seiven o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: rammie

27.10.2025 09:17 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

It's day twinty-sax o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: ȝammer

26.10.2025 12:17 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It's day twinty-five o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: brock

25.10.2025 12:28 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

It's day twinty-fower o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: yeuk

24.10.2025 13:11 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It's day twinty-three o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: puggle

23.10.2025 11:58 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

It's day twinty-twa o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: vance

22.10.2025 11:04 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It's day twinty-wan o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: zeast

21.10.2025 07:57 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

It's day twinty o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: vrack

20.10.2025 12:06 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Du gies hooseroom tae a swap o scarfs,
lodgins ta mallies. A shjalder swanks
apo dy shooder…

—Christine De Luca, “Growin Auld (Wasterwick)”
published in WAST WI DA VALKYRIES, @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social 1997
#Scotstober #poem #poetry #Shetland
www.christinedeluca.co.uk/pages/wast_w...

19.10.2025 13:42 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?

AI and Wikipedia are sending the most vulnerable languages into a harmful linguistic doom loop.

Wikipedia is used to train AI to speak vulnerable languages. But users are now flooding Wikipedia with shoddy AI translations.

Latest in @technologyreview.com: www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

26.09.2025 00:18 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1

It's day nineteen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: shooder

19.10.2025 10:08 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

“A man’s a man for a’ that” – how does he know?
Traipsing with his plough, the rural hero,
Swaggering down the lea-rigs, talking to mice…

—“James Macfarlan”, by Edwin Morgan
in VIRTUAL & OTHER REALITIES, @carcanet.bsky.social 1997
#Scotstober #poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978185754347...

18.10.2025 13:13 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1

Its day echteen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: traipsie

18.10.2025 10:31 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Its day seiventeen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: warp

17.10.2025 09:10 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

“Shilpit, I am informed, sir, signifies stunted, undergrown. As to ‘wee’, that is, of course, current in English as well as in…” he paused for a second “…the Northern dialects. Nyaff, an insignificant person, a pip-squeak.”

—from “McAuslan’s Court-Martial”, by George MacDonald Fraser
#Scotstober
💙📚

16.10.2025 15:05 👍 33 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 0

Its day saxteen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: nyaff

16.10.2025 13:54 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Its day fifteen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: warlock

15.10.2025 11:34 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 2

Its day fowerteen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: sleekit

14.10.2025 10:27 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 3

We fecht to lowse oursels, we coup and skar
and joater menseless in the foazie grun,
feart to bide still, and fusionless to rin,
we plouter on, forfeuchan, through the haar…

—Robert Garioch, “The Bog”
in A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS (ASL, 2017)
#Scotstober #poem #poetry
asls.org.uk/publications...

13.10.2025 12:18 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Its day therteen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: plooter

13.10.2025 08:14 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2