twitch of twitch.cymru

hmmm the urge to start learning slovak again

whatever "joke" you have about the welsh language, i can promise you we've already heard it and it's really not funny. yes we know "it looks like a keysmash". and what the "cym" part of the words cymraeg/cymru/etc sound like to english speakers. and how it "barely has any vowels" (what even..? welsh has more vowels than english does). and that you think we can't even pronounce our own place names. and that you think that one place with the really long name is so funny and hilarious and "so impossible to pronounce" (if you break it into the smaller words it's comprised of, then i fail to see how it would be any harder than pronouncing a sentence). and that you think we seriously say popty-ping.

i get the impulse behind this, but i really don't think wales or welsh are bad words today, and i don't think it's offensive to refer to us as wales/welsh. they don't have the same context or implications as meaning foreigner anymore in modern english. the etymology of a word is not the same as that word's present-day meaning.

no. it's really not. the standard pronunciation is "cum-rye-g" as stated in the photo.

i love living in wales and knowing that my vote and the votes of everyone else in wales don't actually count in the uk general election (sarcasm)