welshing on Welsh
Wouldnt you think that if you were brought up in Wales and both your parents spoke Welsh, youd learn Welsh? That didnt happen for Dylan Thomas according to this excellent article:paris review......
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Wouldnt you think that if you were brought up in Wales and both your parents spoke Welsh, youd learn Welsh? Maybe it's because you live in San Diego, Ozzie, where there are plenty of social supports...
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Many English people will tell you that if you go to a Welsh-speaking part of Wales and go into a shop or pub, everyone will start speaking Welsh just to annoy the intruder, even though they had been...
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Dylan Thomas didn't much like Wales -- he wrote this to a woman in London:Quote:Its impossible for me to tell you how much I want to get out of it all, out of narrowness and dirtiness, out of the...
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Quote:This is no surprise. MoMac can speak of Ireland, but I would guess, despite government support, Irish is not well-spoken there either. Despite enormous government support it is in effect a dead...
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And how would the locals know at one glance that the newcomer was English?In the same way that English people can spot an American in England at one glance. It's the clothes you wear, and the look of...
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"How could they know what language people were using before they came in? " I suppose one could ask one of the Welsh personswho frequent the shops.....unless of course, you don'tt rust the Welsh. If...
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I can tell you for a fact that the Welsh students at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (Institiid Ard-Linn Bhaile tha Cliath), when I was there studying Irish 30 years ago, ostentatiously...
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And how would the locals know at one glance that the newcomer was English?I worked with a Hungarian who had left his home country in the fifties revolution. He went back on a vacation in the early...
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/I can well believe similar behavior is practiced in Wales itself./Damn cheek! Speaking one's own language in one's own country. Whatever next? It's the thin end of the wedge, I tell you. Next thing...
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I am sure that this sort of behaviour is not unique to Wales. Equally I know that it does occur, but only in certain areas; oddly enough, often the places with the least to be proud of.Welsh is taught...
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often the places with the least to be proud of.We may not have much, but we can still talk about you without your knowing what we're saying.
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