twitch of twitch.cymru

adjusting my first oboe reed rn, surely this can only go well...

come closer i am a normal double reed player and you can trust me with a knife ^_^

was so excited to finally be able to use my passport for something but they didn't even ID me when i bought this 😔 or when i bought craft knives 😔

it's funny how immigrants do an absolutely fine job of learning english and being immersed in it and doing school/jobs/etc through it when they move to the uk, but somehow english-speaking children learning welsh or any other of our minority languages is way "too much" and "we have to put a stop to them being forced to learn welsh".

so immigrants are expected to learn english bc it's "the language of our country" even when they speak a different language(s) at home, but when we remind english-speaking monolinguals that welsh is also a "language of our country" then they whine about how hard it'll be for their poor english-speaking children to cope with speaking english at home and welsh at school and how it'll "really disadvantage them" (aren't there a number of studies showing that bilingualism/multilingualism actually only benefits children??)

how come everyone else can cope with speaking multiple languages in different places/times/etc in their life and we are actually expected to that, and in some cases forced to do that, but english people should never be expected to do that ever and they'll never cope and it's far too difficult for them.

bilingualism/multilingualism is the global norm!!

how on earth do you arrive at this conclusion?? "society needs to be inclusive which means we need to get rid of minority languages".

why are we, as minority cultures, supposed to give up our languages and cultures so that people who refuse to care about us can feel "included"?? it's like those absolutely ridiculous takes that scotland/wales/etc having minority languages and wanting independence "only serves to divide us" and "we need to focus on our similarities and not our differences". differences are good and should be celebrated, not squashed out in order to create some sort of sanitised "inclusivity".

why should we need to make members of majority cultures feel included when they say things like this about us?? we are obviously going to purposely exclude you when you're acting so mean and vile like this. why can't you learn about our languages and cultures and take part in them and be included in them?? i think most speakers of minority languages in britain would be happy to hear you're learning our languages. why don't you broaden your horizons and include yourselves into more languages, instead of deciding that an "inclusive society" means we need to give up everything so we can all be like you. different cultures/languages/etc are good. i don't understand how people will say they want an inclusive society, and then it turns out they mean cultural genocide. how are we as minority cultures meant to feel included??

also "it's almost like a different language".... uh yeah, because it IS a different language.. what on earth am i supposed to say to that..

and "gaelic is only as much use to those who understand it" yeah i feel like english is also only useful to people who understand it?? couldn't you say that about every language??

god i hate twitter