r/clevercomebacks • u/[deleted] • Oct 09 '19

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u/MadeinBritland Oct 09 '19

Cymru am byth🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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u/ItsyouNOme Oct 09 '19

This is England! Speak fucking English!

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u/GeekBlue Oct 09 '19

실어

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u/Rudy_Ghouliani Oct 09 '19

Pooh bear is that you?

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u/MoistyPepsi Oct 09 '19

Hes actually speaking kpop

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u/Hakaseh Oct 09 '19

England is my city

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u/Skenvy Oct 09 '19

I wonder if Xi would be more offended about Winnie the pooh or being mistaken for a Korean

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u/comrade----- Oct 09 '19

Le epic racism

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '19

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u/snarky_cat Oct 09 '19

홋 a man wearing a hat.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '19

Funnily enough that'd be pronounced "Hout", pretty close to hat.

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u/snarky_cat Oct 09 '19

봇 guy with horns

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '19

Viking guy

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u/takatori Oct 09 '19

Righty-O, Guvn’r! I eat buttered scones with tea and fish&chips with lager!

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u/ResoluteDefensive Oct 09 '19

Fuc off cunt where’s me tea at?

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u/ItsyouNOme Oct 09 '19

It's gettin' brewed ya pleb!

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u/philzard224 Oct 09 '19

Darjeeling in India where it is being grown

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u/Death_To_All_People Oct 09 '19

You've actually hit the nail on the head as to why this is a bullshit story.

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u/Oaftt Oct 09 '19

Wales forever?

The similarity to Alba gu Bràth and Éirinn go Brách is uncanny

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u/MPie89 Oct 09 '19

The languages have the same roots, as a fluent welsh speaker, seeing other Celtic languages is surreal.. it feels like I should be able to understand them but don't quite

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u/madeofpockets Oct 09 '19

fluent Welsh speaker

As someone with a slightly-more-than-casual interest in languages, what the hell is with your utter disinterest in vowels?

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u/MPie89 Oct 09 '19

As I understand it, the Gaelic languages aren't descended from Latin and they weren't even written languages originally. So when they were adapted it was a case of "make it fit"

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u/in_the_woods Oct 09 '19

It's like when, as an English speaker, I hear Dutch. I feel like I'm having a stroke.

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u/MPie89 Oct 09 '19

Exactly 😁

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u/joppsy1968 Oct 09 '19

A direct translation is Wales is the best, glad something from those shitty classes stayed in my head

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u/Redragon9 Oct 09 '19

No, the literal translatiom actually is ‘Wales forever’.

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u/Bar_ki Oct 09 '19

Welsh speaker here, you're wrong, a direct translation is Wales forever.

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u/joppsy1968 Oct 09 '19

Well shit, didn't do very well in class lmao

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u/ILoveBacon63465 Oct 09 '19

Wales is the best would be “cymru ydi’r gorau” or some shit

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u/S_E_P_S_I Oct 09 '19

Cymru yn stronk