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[raincitygirl]

I just heard the most remarkable assertion: that people who are born and raised in Wales but don’t speak Welsh aren’t *really* Welsh, they’re just English in disguise. I’m not Welsh myself, but I rather took offense at that on principle. By that logic, I pointed out, Scots who don’t speak Gaelic aren’t really Scots. But according to him, Gaelic is a dead language while Welsh is a living language, and that makes the difference. Whatevs. I decided not to argue any further but make a strategic withdrawal from the conversation instead. However, if I had argued further, I would have invited the guy to walk into a crowded pub in, say, Cardiff and proclaim his theory to the people there.

In other news, I got three hours sleep last night, so I’m feeling a little punchy. And in other, other news my brand-new CPAP machine seems to have something wrong with it. Hope I didn’t buy a lemon. Sigh. If it’s not one thing, it’s another.

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[clanwilliam]

I'd love to have seen his face if you'd said that Scots who don't speak Scots aren't Scots since he probably thinks that doesn't exist at all.

And I'd pay to watch him walk into a crowded pub in Newport, for extra violence.

I'm not Welsh, and I am a (very badly) Irish-speaking Irishwomen.

And he's not going to be too popular in Scotland either. What the hell does he think this is? (The glossary is brilliant, both for certain words and for leaving you wondering what they've been reporting on.)