Minor European Languages

[TCO]

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
Welsh borrows so heavily from English it might as well be English.

Exactly. BTW, when I visited a Wales, I read a book about it. My favorite quote, "When was Wales?"

[RGBVideo]

= less wars

= A brave, new world.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Tuomerehu

= A brave, new world.

culture is the enemy. Look at Hitler with all the Alpenwunder.

[Solly]

Cymru is one of the few words in which a y is pronounced as "uh", from what I can gather.

Witness the number of towns with a word followed by a y followed by another y.

Egs:
Pen-y-Bont
Betws-y-coed
Min-y-mor

And then there is Welshpool's football ground, Maesydre.

Or the Welsh spelling of Cardiff, Caerdydd (pronounced slightly differently, I know one person even when speaking English pronounces it the Welsh way..)

[TCO]

I'd like to visit Caerphilly castle.

[Solly]

It always bugs me to see the Celts spell their town names wrong in Civ..

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Boddington's
Cymru is one of the few words in which a y is pronounced as "uh", from what I can gather.

Yes, it does seem to be unusual in that I have noticed...also notice that the first letter can change, like in Welcome to Wales: 'Croeso i Gymru'.

Witness the number of towns with a word followed by a y followed by another y.

Egs:
Pen-y-Bont
Betws-y-coed
Min-y-mor

And then there is Welshpool's football ground, Maesydre.

Yes, the one problem with Wales when driving through was remembering names to navigate by. Now I can cope well with English names, but Welsh ones just don't stick in my mind (although thank f**k for Welshpool and Newtown although the former is Trallwng in Welsh anyway).

Or the Welsh spelling of Cardiff, Caerdydd (pronounced slightly differently, I know one person even when speaking English pronounces it the Welsh way..)

Yeah, the ae is a bit different and the -dd is a bit like a -th noise...

[Myrddin]

Welsh borrows so heavily from English it might as well be English.

Mae Cymraeg ddim yn fenthyg gormod o'r Saesneg, a mae Saesned wedi fenthyg geiriau fel 'pen-gwyn' o'r Gymraeg

[Buck Birdseed]

Sir Ralph:

Hungarian has got some astoundingly coarse blasphemies actually. I still balk every time I hear the old ladies in villages repeatedly use "Kurva Isten" (God is a Prostitute) as an everyday interjection. And I'm an atheist.

Boddies: I thought you were opposed to minorities?

[Provost Harrison]

Llanfairpwllgwyngerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogo ch

[Meticulous Man]

The longest place name in Britain?

[Provost Harrison]

Yeah, although I don't think it is referred to that very often. Hey, if you think it looks funny written down, you want to hear it pronounced

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
I still balk every time I hear the old ladies in villages repeatedly use "Kurva Isten" (God is a Prostitute) as an everyday interjection.

I have heard this too, very often. Mostly with a third word, IIRC it was "Kurva Isten Fossad". And, of course "Basz meg" (sp?) thrice in every sentence .

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Myrddin


Mae Cymraeg ddim yn fenthyg gormod o'r Saesneg, a mae Saesned wedi fenthyg geiriau fel 'pen-gwyn' o'r Gymraeg

Origin of the word penguin.

Might be welsh, but I think its a coincidence.

[Solly]

Llanfair PG