Keytar WolfFeb 26
a stinky ox 🐂
I love the Welsh word for 'dawn' which is "gwawr". It's like the noise I'd imagine a little monster would make. Gwawr. Makes me think of the sun peeking over the horizon and exclaiming "gwawr!".
Feb 25 at 3:29pmWeb
Show threadJeezy PeepsFeb 25
@llamasoft_ox it's also the noise a crow makes!
Show threadStewart RussellFeb 25
@llamasoft_ox I always thought that the Welsh equivalent of the WI ("Merched y Wawr": lit. "Daughters of the Dawn") sounded more like a direct-action terrorist group than anything else
Show threadThe Penguin of EvilFeb 25
@scruss @llamasoft_ox When they need to be they pretty much are a direction action terror group. Only the mental terror is usually sufficient that no force is required. Think an army of well meaning Esme Weatherwax 8)
Show threadStewart RussellFeb 25
@etchedpixels @llamasoft_ox yes, I experienced that at a long-ago Eisteddfod
Show threadKen ButlerFeb 26
@scruss @llamasoft_ox ooo, gwawr -> y wawr indicates that "gwawr" is a feminine noun (grammatically) in Welsh. (Feminine nouns soft-mutate with "the", meaning that their first letter changes, or, in the case of g, disappears.)
Show threadStewart RussellFeb 26
@nxskok @llamasoft_ox yes: ask me how easy it wasn't sorting entries for the Welsh dictionary at Collins
Show threadKen ButlerFeb 26
@scruss @llamasoft_ox I bet. As a learner, before even cracking open the dictionary to look up a word, the first question has to be "is this word mutated or not?"
Show threadEmma DavidsonFeb 25
@llamasoft_ox this is, in fact, the tiny dinosaur noise I make when I wake up after a good night’s sleep. And now I know its name 🦖
Show threadDiego Mascarell ⁂  🏳️‍🌈Feb 25
@emmadavidson @llamasoft_ox legit
Show threadGeoff BernerFeb 26
@llamasoft_ox just wait till you hear the band Gwar. Or better yet, wait till you see them.