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The Italian highlanders who may have Scottish roots
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| 11 Aug 2017
| Dany Mitzman
Posted on 08/11/2017 8:54:38 AM PDT by Theoria
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08/11/2017 8:54:38 AM PDT
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Theoria
To: Theoria
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posted on
08/11/2017 8:59:13 AM PDT
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BatGuano
(You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
To: Theoria
Simple DNA test could alleviate all doubt.................
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08/11/2017 9:01:20 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Theoria
speak a strange dialect, incomprehensible even to the other villages
I was meeting my wife for dinner and arrived before her so I went to the bar where I ran into a bunch of Scots I knew in the oil and gas game. So I am standing there talking with them when my wife shows up. When we got the table my wife asks, "what language were those guys they speaking?" When I said English she looked at me like a cow looking at a new gate.
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posted on
08/11/2017 9:04:13 AM PDT
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dblshot
(I am John Galt.)
To: dblshot
Funny. I’ve had Singaporeans translate Australian for me. Not fun.
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posted on
08/11/2017 9:09:32 AM PDT
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Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: Theoria
Maybe they are time travelers a la Outlander
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posted on
08/11/2017 9:14:34 AM PDT
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Lorianne
To: Theoria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GowMI4wvmU4
Let Italy boast of her gay gilded waters
Her vines and her bowers and her soft sunny skies
Her sons drinking love from the eyes of her daughters
Where freedom expires amid softness and sighs
Scotland’s blue mountains wild where hoary cliffs are piled
Towering in grandeur are dearer tae me
Land of the misty cloud land of the tempest loud
Land of the brave and proud land of the free
Enthroned on the peak of her own highland mountains
The spirit of Scotia reigns fearless and free
Her green tartan waving o’er blue rock and fountain
And proudly she sings looking over the sea
Read more: John Mcdermott - Scotland The Brave Lyrics | MetroLyrics
To: dblshot
"When I said English she looked at me like a cow looking at a new gate. " Spent my early youth on a dairy farm....never heard that one.
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posted on
08/11/2017 9:20:11 AM PDT
by
blam
To: Theoria
There was a soldier
A Scottish soldier
Who wandered far away
And soldiered far away
There was none bolder
With good broad shoulder
He’s fought in many a fray
And fought and won
He’s seen the glory
He told the story
Of battles glorious
And deeds victorious
But now he’s sighing
His heart is crying
To leave those
Green hills of Tyrol
To: Theoria
I've got an Argentine friend who emigrated from Scotland as a boy. The only way I can understand his “english” is get a few drinks down me.
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posted on
08/11/2017 9:35:01 AM PDT
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llevrok
(A group of baboons is called a "congress." Just sayin' .....)
To: Red Badger
I’m surprised there would be much doubt. That’s certainly within a historical time frame, and, as I understand the story, a few of their relatives from Scotland also immigrated there over the years.
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posted on
08/11/2017 9:40:58 AM PDT
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: blam
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posted on
08/11/2017 9:44:44 AM PDT
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bigmak007
(They who can't control their own passions, want to passionately control others.)
To: nutmeg
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posted on
08/11/2017 9:45:44 AM PDT
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nutmeg
To: jjotto
A cunning linguist could study their language and decide......................
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08/11/2017 9:46:49 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: llevrok
"I've got an Argentine friend who emigrated from Scotland as a boy. The only way I can understand his english is get a few drinks down me. " I've read that the English as spoken in the Southern USA today is more kin to the English spoken in England in the 1700's than the English spoken in England today.
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08/11/2017 9:57:16 AM PDT
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blam
To: Red Badger
Simple DNA test could alleviate all doubt.................I was thinking that, too, all the way through the article. Perhaps they're afraid it will destroy their legend if it's disproved. But based on evidence presented, it seems highly possible.
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posted on
08/11/2017 10:12:18 AM PDT
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Albion Wilde
(I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
To: llevrok
Knew a couple from South Africa some years back.
They could be understood if they spoke slowly...
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posted on
08/11/2017 10:14:01 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: Theoria
Aye...
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posted on
08/11/2017 10:18:52 AM PDT
by
bar sin·is·ter
(Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
To: bar sin·is·ter
Aha ! The”Find the Pope in the Pizza” contest guy.
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posted on
08/11/2017 10:20:45 AM PDT
by
Mears
To: Theoria
Well, the French are just hillbilly Italians.
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posted on
08/11/2017 10:27:12 AM PDT
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CodeToad
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