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thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

The Scots wiki had the same problem. A teenage American who didn’t speak Scots edited and created 10s of thousands of entries

For those not aware Scots is a Germanic language that split from Old English back about 700-800 years ago - closely related to modern english like frisian is, but also retaining many words lost to english (some of which are retained in Swedish / Dutch etc). It is distinct from standard scottish english.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language

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Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Little better because he was this guy is actually machine translating it and not just typing what a Scottish accent sounds like phonetically lol

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- Yoga@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  He cited one “ridiculous” example where entries went wrong. In the submission for Telekinesis, the description was written in neither Scots nor English and read: “Telekinesis es a form of movnig ebjocts with yor maind.”
  
  I’m sorry but even for a 12 year old that’s comedically stupid.
  
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