Fedora 25 to have MP3 playback

Posted Nov 14, 2016 21:31 UTC (Mon) by tome (subscriber, #3171)
In reply to: Fedora 25 to have MP3 playback by Wol
Parent article: Fedora 25 to have MP3 playback

A brief summary of the situation ca. 1990's from the point of view of an Edinburgh Scot, as portrayed by Irvine Welsh via a character in Trainspotting:
"It’s nae good blamin it oan the English for colonizing us. Ah don’t hate the English. They’re just wankers. We are colonized by wankers. We can’t even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be colonized by. No. We’re ruled by effete arseholes. What does that make us? The lowest of the fuckin low, the scum of the earth. The most wretched, servile, miserable, pathetic trash that was ever shat intae creation. Ah don’t hate the English. They just git oan wi the shite thuv goat. Ah hate the Scots."

Fedora 25 to have MP3 playback

Posted Nov 14, 2016 22:01 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (4 responses)

And don't call me a Sassenach! :-)

The Sassenachs are the Anglish, or Lowland Scots (who, obviously, aren't actually Scots :-) I'm a cross between a Saxon (ie my father's family came from East Anglia - nothing to do with the Angles I believe), and a Highlander, ie a Pict not a Scot :-) I wear the kilt with pride :-) The Stewarts (or Stewards, caretaker Kings) were Sassenachs, I believe.

Hence Edinburgh, the Angle capital, being the capital of Scotland :-)

Cheers,
Wol

Fedora 25 to have MP3 playback

Posted Nov 15, 2016 0:21 UTC (Tue) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link] (3 responses)

A Sassenach is a person who doesn't speak Gaelic. That means most of us ;^)

Fedora 25 to have MP3 playback

Posted Nov 15, 2016 1:53 UTC (Tue) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

I know a focal or two. Wish I'd paid more attention in school and learned more Gaelic, and then not forgotten most of what I did.

Fedora 25 to have MP3 playback

Posted Nov 15, 2016 12:24 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

In other words, someone who lived in the old Angle kingdom, in the lowlands. Modern Scotland is made of four ancient kingdoms - the Land of the Scots (ie the Western Isles), the Land of the Picts, ie the highlands, north of the Glasgow Edinburgh line, Angleland ie lowland Scotland to the east, and Dalriada (about which I know nothing) below Glasgow to the west.

Historically a Sassenach was someone from the lowlands, the old Angle kingdom :-) ie NOT us saxons from Southern Britain :-)

Cheers,
Wol

Fedora 25 to have MP3 playback

Posted Nov 18, 2016 15:46 UTC (Fri) by jnicol (guest, #106134) [Link]

Dalriada was the name for the kingdom of the Scots (in gaelic, "scot" comes from latin). There was the brhetonic kingdom of strathclyde in the south-west.

I studied all this at advanced higher (Scottish equivalent of A-Level) but that was years ago and I can unfortunately barely remember it!