jackcole on Nostr: npub1ks70c…teg5u Learning Scots Gaelic is on my bucket list, a list that might turn ...

npub1ks70cf3wt30sn2gqjnw4zjtd7ztwnnaq4fy0azpdvtlthg7eqrpqlteg5u (npub1ks7…eg5u) Learning Scots Gaelic is on my bucket list, a list that might turn out to be just a short work of fiction. There are not many speakers today of any flavor of Gaelic, even though it is a very interesting language. Samuel Johnson had a somewhat similar role translating (and I suspect editing) the works of Juvenal from Latin, just as Macpherson claimed for the Gaelic works. So Johnson's denial of Macpherson's work is interesting.