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[Black Belt Jones]

To add to this, the issue they pick on is the "carbon cost of the exercise"!!!

What they want to moan about is Welsh claiming back some identity from their tyrannical neighbours but they hide behind carbon cost!!

These boomers are the WORST of all this current explosion of echo-chamber driven groups, mine included.

They are foaming at the mouth constantly at the imagined woke onslaught.

Eryri makes sense but that's Champion's League mountain country where most local people speak Welsh. Brecons are League 1 by comparison, and copying the Welsh language naming has no credibility as an identity exercise when no one in SE Wales can be arsed to learn Welsh.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Eryri makes sense but that's Champion's League mountain country where most local people speak Welsh. Brecons are League 1 by comparison, and copying the Welsh language naming has no credibility as an identity exercise when no one in SE Wales can be arsed to learn Welsh.

You’re English aren’t you…

Welsh is compulsory in school and within a generation the new name should become the norm to those in wales. I doubt they give a f*** what the English think

Edit, that wasn’t meant to sound rude

 

[Black Belt Jones]

You’re English aren’t you…

Welsh is compulsory in school and within a generation the new name should become the norm to those in wales. I doubt they give a f*** what the English think

Mathematics and English literature are compulsory in school - should give you some guidance to how relevant compulsory Welsh language classes are to the general population.

Places like the Rhondda, Merthyr have less than 20% people who know or care what Araf means, the numbers of actual Welsh speakers would be very low indeed in that region. Bannau Brycheiniog means nothing really - the stench of jarg lies upon it.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Mathematics and English literature are compulsory in school - should give you some guidance to how relevant compulsory Welsh language classes are to the general population.

Places like the Rhondda, Merthyr have less than 20% people who know or care what Araf means, the numbers of actual Welsh speakers would be very low indeed in that region. Bannau Brycheiniog means nothing really - the stench of jarg lies upon it.

Oh mate, I have a welsh speaking mother and grew up in eryri. The point being, the Welsh want to re-establish some identity and, English place names need to go.

 

[Moomin]

I don't know, but it's really silly at the moment. These all sit under the dedicated 'culture wars section':

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All these white middle class correspondents seem terrified, yet there they are being paid handsomely to write in a newspaper linked to bastions of power and privilege.

Looks like headlines in the Onion.

 

[Hackbread]

Mathematics and English literature are compulsory in school - should give you some guidance to how relevant compulsory Welsh language classes are to the general population.

Places like the Rhondda, Merthyr have less than 20% people who know or care what Araf means, the numbers of actual Welsh speakers would be very low indeed in that region. Bannau Brycheiniog means nothing really - the stench of jarg lies upon it.

The numbers of Welsh speakers are lower than in North Wales but are growing steadily every year.
Surely you can see that changing place names to Welsh only benefits the revival of the language, encourages Welsh speakers and non Welsh speakers to use the language more in their everyday lives.
Its a minor change that seems to generate a disproportionate level of fume from the English

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

The numbers of Welsh speakers are lower than in North Wales but are growing steadily every year.
Surely you can see that changing place names to Welsh only benefits the revival of the language, encourages Welsh speakers and non Welsh speakers to use the language more in their everyday lives.
Its a minor change that seems to generate a disproportionate level of fume from the English

A childish portion of the English who think they own everything. The entitled biffs.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

The numbers of Welsh speakers are lower than in North Wales but are growing steadily every year.
Surely you can see that changing place names to Welsh only benefits the revival of the language, encourages Welsh speakers and non Welsh speakers to use the language more in their everyday lives.
Its a minor change that seems to generate a disproportionate level of fume from the English

You mean growing in S Wales? Doubt that tbh as the number of Welsh speakers (as percentage) is the lowest it's ever been in history. You prob know that the trend as a whole is downward, with less Welsh speakers now than 10 years ago.

Number of Welsh speakers in Wales falls for second decade in a row according to census

The number of Welsh speakers in Wales has fallen for the second decade in a row according to the 2021 census. In 2021, an estimated 538,000 usual residents in Wales aged three years and over (17.8%) reported being able to speak Welsh, which is a decrease since 2011 (562,000,19.0%). It means that...

nation.cymru

The Welsh assembly's target of a million Welsh speakers by 2050 is clearly a massive task - a fantasy, really, given how young people communicate, but there's nothing wrong with shooting for the stars. Needs deep, long term policy commitment - don't see a fatuous renaming of some hills as really feeding into that.

 

[Hackbread]

You mean growing in S Wales? Doubt that tbh as the number of Welsh speakers (as percentage) is the lowest it's ever been in history. You prob know that the trend as a whole is downward, with less Welsh speakers now than 10 years ago.

Number of Welsh speakers in Wales falls for second decade in a row according to census

The number of Welsh speakers in Wales has fallen for the second decade in a row according to the 2021 census. In 2021, an estimated 538,000 usual residents in Wales aged three years and over (17.8%) reported being able to speak Welsh, which is a decrease since 2011 (562,000,19.0%). It means that...

nation.cymru

The Welsh assembly's target of a million Welsh speakers by 2050 is clearly a massive task - a fantasy, really, given how young people communicate, but there's nothing wrong with shooting for the stars. Needs deep, long term policy commitment - don't see a fatuous renaming of some hills as really feeding into that.

Fair enough I had not seen those numbers from 2021 before regarding Welsh speakers in Wales
Seen lots of things suggesting that Welsh is one of the fastest growing languages but some of that is from people outside of Wales through apps etc, so doesnt apply to this to be fair.

That article you posted actually goes on to say that the only areas increasing in Welsh speakers are in South Wales. Including the Rhondda and Merthyr who will directly be in the area or vicinity of this name change.

Im not suggesting this name change will galvanise Welsh speaking into a new Golden age but there is no harm in doing it all and promoting peoples local sense of identity and language. Sure more needs to be done but these minor changes however small all contribute to the momentum of change.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Can’t stop watching these. Like eating Twiglets

 

[JimmyJeffers]

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Who on here is Mick Larkin? Come on. Sorry, Mick Larkin 007

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Can’t stop watching these. Like eating Twiglets

She's like the earnest but slightly unsettling chick at Uni who I actively avoided because she'd turn every encounter or conversation onto her hatred for her landlord and capitalism for exploiting her.

Yet everyone knew she went to private school and had an allowance. Dad was in banking etc.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

She's like the earnest but slightly unsettling chick at Uni who I actively avoided because she'd turn every encounter or conversation onto her hatred for her landlord and capitalism for exploiting her.

Yet everyone knew she went to private school and had an allowance. Dad was in banking etc.

Going through their ‘Labour’ phase.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

You mean growing in S Wales? Doubt that tbh as the number of Welsh speakers (as percentage) is the lowest it's ever been in history. You prob know that the trend as a whole is downward, with less Welsh speakers now than 10 years ago.

Number of Welsh speakers in Wales falls for second decade in a row according to census

The number of Welsh speakers in Wales has fallen for the second decade in a row according to the 2021 census. In 2021, an estimated 538,000 usual residents in Wales aged three years and over (17.8%) reported being able to speak Welsh, which is a decrease since 2011 (562,000,19.0%). It means that...

nation.cymru

The Welsh assembly's target of a million Welsh speakers by 2050 is clearly a massive task - a fantasy, really, given how young people communicate, but there's nothing wrong with shooting for the stars. Needs deep, long term policy commitment - don't see a fatuous renaming of some hills as really feeding into that.

A different story….
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My Taid was not allowed to speak his native tongue in school due to English rule. It’s about time the language was reclaimed