lots of the celtic-related webrings i've seen seem to be from the 90s/00s and very inactive with no way to join. i wonder if it would be worth me making one?? just like a webring for anything generally celtic-language-related or in the celtic languages.

i'm not really interested in engaging with anything where "british" is:

a) treated like one homogenised culture (that homigenised culture ALWAYS being english and ignoring the minority languages/cultures/nations here)

and b) it's completely ignored that the modern useage of "british" is very much a political term that begun existence with the acts of union. i.e. not the useage that just implies britain as an island, or the "british isles" (although i think we should retire those geographical uses since it's just such a political term that at worst has connotations of cultural genocide of the non-english nations of these isles at the hands of the english). or british being used to mean common-brythonic-speaking peoples and their language. something something, that quote "britishness is a political synonym for englishness which extends english culture over the scots, the welsh, and the irish". and i would add that cornish could very well do with being added to that quote.

i wonder what it is about romance languages that just makes them not click in my brain. french, spanish, and italian are supposed to be some of the easiest languages to learn for english speakers, but i've done all 3 of those and never had much luck.

i suppose with french it could be bc it was taught so badly in school for years so it just always feels annoying and hard to get into bc i never was taught grammar. but honestly the same thing could be said for welsh too, which i can speak now (largely due to self-teaching bc the teachers wouldn't teach us anything useful), and i have a much better time with celtic languages than romance ones. also i did italian for a year at university and i was taught grammar then but the language just didn't click with me. maybe i'll hop around some other romance languages until i find one i click with better. or maybe i'll come back to italian in the future.

“We are not in favour of revitalising Cymraeg as the national language of Wales out of abstract affection for the language, but as a revolutionary strategy to decouple from Anglo-American hegemony and build a new society with our own language, an indigenous means of intellectual and community production at its core. In short, language is a tool for the production of knowledge and the coordination of movements.
Our commitment to the re-establishment of Cymraeg as the primary language of Wales stems from our commitment to Welsh sovereignty; economic, political and intellectual.” – excerpt from ‘The National Language’, soon to be released