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by clydethefrog 1781 days ago
I hope they had a bit less fun than the American teenager that edited most of the Scottish Wikipedia pages with nonsense Scottish!

https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/scots-wikipedia-languag...

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> Despite his well-meaning enthusiasm, AG admitted to making many mistakes. For example, AG used the Scots Online Dictionary to look up specific words in Scots. But the content that AG added to Wikipedia was not a true translation because he did not fully understand Scots grammar and syntax.

Reminds me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_She_Is_Spoke