Petition launched to scrap non-Welsh place names

It is quite baffling to see how a discussion of minority languages elicits such an odd response. English is a dynamic, resilient, highly successful language. It's ludicrous to perceive the revival of Welsh place names as any kind of threat to the dominance of the English language. Where does that come from?

It could be your dishonesty, considering nobody made this claim other than you.  All I disagree with is the intentional hostile agenda behind it, which the anti-English Scotnat and his troll supports.

Yes I did, and yes I am disagreeing with your views and I explained my reasons for doing so earlier. Here I am pointing out the elephant in the room and all you're doing is making up wild claims that other people feel threatened, which is hypocritical of you when the motivation is anti-English. I don't want the knuckle dragging bigotry that we see from your ScotNat mates, who just want to stir up hostility and further bullshit.

Then you need to pay attention to what us said in Welsh at fringe meetings of tbe Cottage Burners Appreciation Society

As i have mentioned on this forum and elsewhere, my knowledge of French has come in handy when dealing with the French. My former Diving instructors first task when taking up an offer to work in Egypt was to speed-learn Arabic. My uncle who worked for the Saudi Merchant Navy took it upon himself to do the same but also learned Spanish to the same degree, firstly because there were for some crazy reason loads of spanish speaking deckhands in the fleet, but secondly because he bought property in ‘El Capistrano’ the very first widely advertised Spanish holiday and retirement resort purpose built as such.

I have never understood the mentality of those who work or retire to another country yet fail to take the time to learn the language of the natives. If nothing else hiw the fuck do you know when the plumber is ripping you off.

Towards the end of a contract with a French Defence outfit at the very start of my career, the guy who led our team at Ferranti, a polymath, had spent months living in France and was imo justifiably proud of the fact his command of the French language exceeded my own gained in years of occasional practice over there and everyday use here with French students at Uni.

We had tended to keep this ability quiet and used it to our great advantage when the arrogant bastards dissed us and the project in front of us thinking we couldn’t understand them. After the jib was done at a huge, huge profit to us, Jeff lead the final project meeting. He uttered not a word in English throughout. The others in the room from our crew were at least as fluent as I and we followed his lead. For 45 minutes barely a word of English was heard.

The faces of the French engineers were a picture as it suddenly dawned on them every one of us understood every word they had conspiratorially whispered over the past 18 months …….

To come back to Welsh though, i recall in Uni some twat bewailed the lack of prominence of the Welsh language in Cardiff and demanded English be eradicated from the University meetings.

He wasn’t remotely happy to hear me say - in Welsh - i saw no reason to allow the descendants of the weaklings my ancestors vanquished and only through their mercy chose not to exterminate to have any such say over the actions of us, the descendants of their conquerors, and - and now i switched to French - the business should therefore be conducted in French, or maybe Old Norse.

As a young child, my maternal grandmother who spoke to me in Welsh because it was her first language, ensured i spoke and wrote it. By the end of my primary school year i was fluent as any Lleyn Peninsula peasant of a year or two my junior.

In Secondary School the asshole teaching the subject focussed entirely on those children who spoke it 100% at home, largely ignoring any others and throwing substitutions of letters fir different cases at us without explanation knowing we would rapidly fall in achievement scores with his incessant fail markings and would predictably leave fluency in the language to his little clique.

In those days it only really mattered if you were buying a pint in a Ceredigion pub, as the landlord only charged the advertised prices to those ordering in english. Nowadays that attitude is far more prevalent.

In 1997 Swalec were told to produce bills bilingually for those demanding them in English, and Welsh Only for those demanding them in Welsh.

That’s the Welsh Language Society’s aim. Eradication.

Well on the Brightside soon they will need them translated in several languages not just Welsh and English, oh but wait that means it has actually gone on for decades anyway.

I have no idea, but Welsh cake and daffodils sound like a delightful riff on the Full English theme to me. You're in Wales, so your breakfast is Welsh. If you were in Scotland they'd call it a Full Scottish breakfast and throw in some sliced haggis and tattie scones. Regional references are to be expected.