I’m not gonna knock the Ulster Scots too much as a Gaeligeoir but I find it completely insane that you don’t need to be ‘fluent’ in it to apply for the job.

The Irish language commissioner rightly requires you to be fluent in it. I mean a £90,000 salary for a language you can’t even speak isn’t a bad gig if you can get it.

It just seems to me, personally, like even the promoters of Ulster-Scots do not take it seriously and it’s more put out there as an equality thing to go with the Irish language.

by ArtieBucco420

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  2. ” Taakin oan o a ”

    this cant be real, whats the date

  3. I can read and understand every single thing here. Put this out in Irish and I won’t understand a word of it.

    This is not a fucking language.

  4. Shur wha else wud ye spund nine-ee grund an? Mur norses an taychurs? Fack away aff.

  5. I’m convinced this was started as a joke and just got out of hand

  6. The main requirement isnt the lingo its wearing a kilt and hanging about with ulster scots enthusiasts. Pretending to enjoy willie drennan concerts. Shit like that. 89k isnt enough

  7. I love this stuff. It’s the best argument against NI being a proper place. I might put in for it for the laugh.

    Or rather, I may put in fer er, ye hav tae be innit tae winnit. It’td be al day sodie bred we butter ain it

  11. As a Scot living in NI, this is an abomination.

    A “language” that is nothing more than an Ayrshire accent ffs

  12. They don’t take it seriously it’s just another form of British unionist supremacy and bigotry. An ugly ugly peoples.

  14. I thought it was an accent, but spelling the words phonetically as they are spoken with a Scottish accent. Like it’s not “to” it is “tae” because that’s the way they pronounce it. Am I missing sumtin?

  15. Stupid question, but can fenians apply? Because I’d be well up for that. Live down the road from the centre and everything.

    Oh here, “Equality o’Chansts” Am in bais!

  16. Where’s that guy from the other day who was complaining about the Irish bi-lingual signs going up? Surely he has something to say about this?

  17. What the fuck is this absolute nonsense 🤣

    “….we wud bae sarious gled tae get yer application”

    Fuck off lads this is how my granny used to speak.

  18. Of course it’s an “equality” thing, it was the only way to actually get more Irish language rights. Doubt it will have much of an impact as Irish promotion

  19. Where are the taxpayer-funded, expense-account-stuffing, sectarian quangos for other accents like Brummie, Scouse, Geordie, West Country Wurzel?

    This is a racket cooked up in the 1990s by Loyalist extremists from the former Ulster Vanguard organisation, John Laird and Nelson McCausland in particular (both of whom had a record of ‘creative accounting’ which benefited themselves).

    In a way, the ridiculous charade that is Ulster-Scots is actually indicative of the artificial contrived nature of Northern Ireland itself.

  20. Is this a made up nonsense language? I feel like if I was to make up a language myself, it would be miles better than this gibberish.

  21. Some laugh if a taig got the job, we can all speak it like

  24. £90k a year to encourage people to speak like a culchie. What a country!

  25. ‘Emilia-Romagnol isn’t a real language, it’s just writing our phonetically how people in Bologna speak.’

    ‘Galician isn’t a real language, it’s just Portuguese with a funny accent.’

    It will never not amaze me how insular and, ironically, Anglocentric, the assumptions underlying the worldview of many Irish nationalists can be.

  28. I mostly understood the job post, does that count as being fluent enough for the job?

  29. Ulster-Scots is not a language. It’s just English spoken with a thick accent and written down phonetically.

    If Ulster-Scots is a language, then so is Cockney. Or Geordie. Or Scouse

  30. My granny was a catholic from the ards peninsula. Reading this made me realise she was fluent in Ulster Scots

  32. I don’t necessarily think a Commissioner has to be fluent or anything like that. The Victims Commissioner doesn’t have to be a Victim of the Troubles or Historical Abuse, but has to know the issues, take meetings with organisations, and ensure representation, among other things. Certainly, someone working for the Commission should know Ulster Scots, but at a certain point in the hierarchy, your job is so abstract that you’re not really speaking any language beyond government speak anyway.

  33. Sounds like Portavogie speak. Had a great aunt from down there & never understood a bloody word 😂

  35. It’s a hobby language much like Irish has no real world use

  36. I’m tempted to apply, I read enough nonsense English from people who learned it from non native speakers and also from English people(I’m confident some day the English will learn the language but that confidence has thus far been misplaced) my Da argues with me regularly that it’s a real language but let’s see it for what it is, bad English spelt phonetically

  37. It’s zero sum politics – if themmuns get something, then we have to get something otherwise we lose.

  38. 🤣🤣🤣

    The only job where turning up drunk would be considered an advantage. Especially if you aren’t “fluent”.

  39. Lads its a silly language aye, but its a language nonetheless. Or are Dutch and Flemish, or Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian, or Portuguese and Galacian, or Czech and Slovak the same language?

    Yeah Ulster Scots is a dialect, but its a dilect of the Scots Language which branched off from Middle English. Of course it’s going to have significant levels of intelligability with it’s closest related language (both culturally and geographically)

    I’m as big a Irish nationalist as it comes but demeaning what ever organic culture Loyalists do have isn’t doing us any favours. Saying that though I feel bad for any Loyalist with any genuine connection to Ulster Scots because it’s credibility has been dragged through the mud by the DUP as a form of petty points scoring.

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