I am staggered by the sheer hugeness of this.
The #WelshGovernment has a policy of bilingualism. All meetings include translators, so that speakers of English or Welsh can participate equally. But every member of the Welsh Cabinet is a native speaker of #Cymraeg, so the Cabinet meetings will be held in their native lsnguage.
Imposing the #EnglishLanguage was a key component of the imperial project of Britishness. But the tide has turned. 💚 🏴
The Lord Moylan is not happy about this. The Tory bankster from Kensington is shocked that a bunch of Welsh speakers in Wales, comprising the #WelshGovernment, speak in their shared native language! 🏴
Couldn't they at least speak English, out of deference to some posh twat in London who likes to control the celts? 😅🤣
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@HarriettMB Yes, Ireland and Scitlsnd are a long way behind.
In particular, Ireland has failed badly. Despite a (nominally) high priority given to the Irish language throughout the era of independence, use of the language has plummeted
@ianturton @2legged @HarriettMB
Luxembourgish isn't an official EU language either.
Apparently. So it's similar to Ireland where everyone speaks English (and most even have it as their first language), isn't it?
It probably helps though that Luxembourgish and German are closely related, which isn't the case for Irish and English.
@2legged @HarriettMB Interestingly, this is how Ireland introduced the Eurovision Song Contest in 1988:
@CGM When my mother was 4yo, in the late 1930s, she went to the local primary school.
To use the toilet, she had to ask in irish. But her West Brit parents spoke not a word of it, and nor did she. So she pissed herself, and was sent home humiliated.
Her father took her out of the school. She did v v well at a school elsewhere, and became a poly linguist. But to this day she cannot even pronounce an Irish name or word.
I despise the linguistic fascists who did that to her. 😡
@2legged This is of STELLAR importance.
Every language encodes not only information, but a structure of how symbols relate to each other. The structure is often half of the information, when you consider living systems.
Changing the language of governance may sound trivial, until you understand the huge significance of structure on information and how it’s applied.
Congratulations Cymru! 🐉
@2legged I went to school in Chester, just over the border, and many of our teachers, including the Head, were native Welsh speakers. They'd habitually use Welsh to discuss things in front of students that they wanted to keep private. It felt a little odd, faint sense of paranoia they were talking about *you* specifically.
The Westminster Government may get to know that feeling 😂
(And if history replays itself, have to fight through a fug of pipe-smoke to talk to the Welsh FM 😜 )
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@jamesb @2legged If you want to learn, btw, https://learnwelsh.cymru/ makes it quite easy and affordable.
No requirement too, though, obv 💖
Diolch, @owenblacker. That's very kind.
I had long intended to do some proper learning of Cymraeg, to get me beyond the few dozen words taught by my dear friends in Eryri.
But these days, my energy levels are too low to take on a project like that.
@sibrosan Nac ydw i.
Ond nid yw hynny'n fy atal rhag caru'r Gymraeg.
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