 Carin also used an English intermediary text for this translation and adapted the setting to Scotland.Although Carin's native Scots was that of Kincardineshire and northeast Scotland, the language in his translation "The Servant o' Twa Maisters" is for the most part a standard central Scots, with older words and expressions appropriate for a late-eighteenth-century setting.In his book "Scottish Literature's Debt to Italy", R. D. S. Jack noted that Carin's "The Servant o' Twa Maisters" changes the play to have Scottish character and place names, and that some conversations and pieces of stage business are added to the play to help convey the play's humour, but the basic plot is kept the same.