Albert Kirk Jr

IMHO Tartan Noir writers are the least likely to include Scots. They're working in a commercial genre for English speakers where the aim is to sell units &, given it's a global market, the setting is essentially irrelevant. It's about telling a good tale (in English) so that it can sell anywhere.

I only started this conversation so you could punt your wares 😅

Casualty's on in a bit, so have a good evening 🙂👍

100% agree with the "English literature"/"literature in English" distinction.

What intrigues me with your examples is, do they include non-English languages? E.g. does the study of American literature include Spanish and native languages? Quite tricky for one person to teach, I'd imagine 🙂

Re Hamlet, I think the equivalent analogy would be an English writer writing a play in Danish set in Denmark and then wondering why it's considered Danish literature.

You're right about RLS of course. True of all writers. Only they can produce their work, no one else 🙂

Thanks 👍

Scots is a leid in it's ain richt, o coorse. O thon Av nae dout.

I just think that if you write in English then you should expect others to consider your work to be a part of English literature.

Gin ye flee wi the craws ye get shot wi the craws, an aw that 🙂

And apologies if I've forgotten something obvious because I haven't read it for AGES but, based on the text alone, what's Scottish about The Strange Case of Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde? It's in English and it's set in London.

And Wikipedia tells me it was written in Bournemouth.

Re Burns, the title of "Poems, Chiefly In the Scottish Dialect" is

- in English
- "chiefly" suggests another language is present i.e. English
- "dialect" begs the question "Of which language?" i.e. English

If Scottish writers use someone else's language we shouldn't grumble if they "claim" us

Looking forward to this halesome tribute to Robert Fergusson, the Jacobite bard of ‘Auld Reekie’. Thanks to @rhonabrown.bsky.social @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for featuring a wee piece of mine and more importantly for linking scholarship and contemporary poetry in a way that’s only too rare still!

Twa braws in yin post. A'm black affrontit 😟

Fair tricket tae hae a poyum o mines in this here buik.

It's cried Foostie Oysters, an it's a repone tae yer man's Caller Oysters.

Thare'll be a gey wheen ither braw poyums in it an aw fae a hantle braw makars.

Get the dammt thing bocht 😃

Whit youse up tae this wather?

Cheery that the fitba's back?

Blithe at the sicht o a lown blae lift an wee stuckies sookin wirms oot the gress?

Wanhowp at the daith o douce humanity an common dacency?

Jine the club 😃

Hopefully the BBC will stop showing any sort of art altogether, in case it has the wrong ideas in it.

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On this day in 1986, Maradona scored the greatest header of all time, with what came to be known as the ‘head of God’.

Here’s how he did it…

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it’s quite funny that my 15yo thinks the music being made now is the best music in the world and my 80yo dad thinks the best music in the world was made when *he* was 15, but the *actual* best music in the world, empirically, was made when *i* was 15. they both look so stupid lol

Braw! An mak siccar tae dingy thaim that'll greet aboot it 😀

Scottish Languages Bill passed Growing Gaelic and Scots

Plans tae forder and uphaud the uise o Gaelic and Scots hae been passed by the Scots Pairliament.

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See ma poyum "In The Chick-fil-A" in pish watter nummer 6, whilk deals with this heid on.

Denholm Elliott is the only actor named after what ET would say if he was asked what jeans were made of.

YouTube video by Ben The Beach Boys [Pet Sounds] - Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulders) ((Stereo Remaster))

Awbodie haes thir favourite. Mines chinges aw the time, sae A'll gang for this yin the day. The dowie melodie gets haud o ma muid the noo. Cheery bye #BrianWilsonRIP

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We are talking jape of the decade...

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Still astonishing to me how a city like Glasgow - the birthplace of much great and important music - has TRNSMT as its big yearly music event. TRNSMT's the Brewdog of music festivals.

Yeah, great tune but I'd have it somewhere between 11 and 20.

Scotland’s most reliable sunshine! Teenage Fanclub’s greatest songs – ranked As their album Grand Prix turns 30, we rate the standout moments from a group Kurt Cobain called ‘the best in the world’

Any thoughts, music peeps? :-)

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ck With You 😀

As he says, it's really personal preference. I'd swap out about 12 of those and move the others around, but it'd still be an excellent list.

Good to see Escher and YLITPWICF in there. I'd include What You Do To Me and December, but it starts getting Bandwagonesque-heavy.

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It's our 1st birthday too!

Can't wait to see you all!

A poyum in Scots fir ye: