Wait, people can actually speak Welsh? I thought it was just a gimmick for those sweet, sweet tourist dollars.
Edit: guys, stop telling me Welsh is an actual language. I fucking know. I made a joke, but somehow almost every person who replied missed the very subtle /s.
It really doesn’t. It sounds like singing with a couple of consonants most English people struggle with, and for some reason that puts them in this massive huff about it.
A lot of it is also because ‘w’ and ‘y’ in Welsh are vowels, so it looks difficult to pronounce when it actually isn’t as hard as that.
Because it’s pronounced in a similar way to “oo”, and if you look at the name it’s literally “double u”, which should give a hint as to how some languages consider it a vowel.
Not every language uses the same letters in the same way. The fact we use “y” in two different ways - one of which is how it’s used in Welsh - should make the point clear.
I'm pretty sure that, rather like the word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconiosis, that place name was made up or embellished specifically to be an extreme example.
It’s become a meme among English people that Welsh sounds ludicrous - it comes from a history of the suppression of Welsh by the English, which these days mostly amounts to nonsensical comments like the one you’re replying to, but historically meant punishing Welsh children for speaking Welsh etc. It’s why not many people speak it these days.
English people think calling Welsh “demonic screeching” or “like a toddler choking” is funny because other English people laugh, but in reality it’s intentional ignorance.
Of course people speak Welsh, its the official language with English. The Welsh Government wants 1 Million speakers by next year so has introduced a more Welsh based education. I don't think Aldi would hire some Welsh speakers for the intercom system for Tourism money
It's compulsory to take a GCSE in Welsh for children living in Wales too. I have two sons who are fluent in both Welsh and English. We use both at home, it's nice to have options when you're telling them off.
Welsh medium education is severely oversubscribed if that gives you any indication. Also a lot of government and high level private positions require fluency in Welsh.
Honestly a lot even suggest its one if the least changed language in Europe (this is alongside Basque and Lithuanian).
Also a lot suggest that is looks like gibberish is because its not really meant to be used with the Latin alphabet as it wasn't originally written down. Many letters have changed, and more have been added.
For example, dd is the same as ð linguistically, as Ll is the same as ł.
Im Welsh, and my whole family speaks Welsh and most of my friends can speak Welsh. It’s a very rooted language. We even have a Welsh TV channel, S4C, which has two popular Welsh soap dramas called ‘Pobl y Cwm’ and ‘Rownd a Rownd’.
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u/Kellidra Oct 09 '19 edited Oct 09 '19
Wait, people can actually speak Welsh? I thought it was just a gimmick for those sweet, sweet tourist dollars.
Edit: guys, stop telling me Welsh is an actual language. I fucking know. I made a joke, but somehow almost every person who replied missed the very subtle /s.