[Closed] What the hell is it with The Welsh?

Oh dear.

It's another language. You know - as in "not English"? 🙄

It's because they come from a country called Wales!

If they didn't use Latin based characters then you wouldn't be complaining.

Hwlffordds = Halfords? 😉 hehehe!

Pulls up chair and drink his cup of coffee and waits......... 😮

Is this ton again using a different log-in?

I've got some lovely Barra brith handy by if anyone's peckish.

I'll be right over, boyo... 😆

Bloody Welsh:

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😛

I think they had a bag of scrabble squares and used them.

toasted with some salty butter please.

You should try moving from Wales to England, picking up English words is pretty much impossible! At least Welsh is faily phonetic!

Racist mochen 😉

About the rugby bit lets see what happens in the Autmn internationals, we are spectacularly good at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Just look at the mighty Ospreys, bloody hell that was close last weekend.

The language that vowels forgot...

The language that vowels forgot...

presumably you refer to English??

Welsh has more vowels... a, e, i, o, u, w, y

It's for bigoted opinions like this that im my experience wherever you go in the world the English are universally disliked. However the mood lightens when you inform them you are infact from wales.

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Welsh has more vowels... a, e, i, o, u, w, y

strictly speaking 'w' & 'y' are also vowels in English but we pretend they're not 🙂 Try saying them and observe that your vocal tract is open and unobstructed, unlike for consonants where there is some obstruction...

Nope its Haverfordwest. Which sounds equally daft in english?!

I'm trying to get my tounge round willy and can feel a bit of the obstruction you mentioned.

They can be forgiven anything for the gift that is Rhod Gilbert - comic genius.

I'm trying to get my tounge round willy and can feel a bit of the obstruction you mentioned.

well done, I've tried but can't quite reach...

Hairychested and fluffy-brained - clearly.

Brain - FAIL

strictly speaking 'w' & 'y' are also vowels in English but we pretend they're not Try saying them and observe that your vocal tract is open and unobstructed, unlike for consonants where there is some obstruction...

Not true! With W sounds the air flow is partly constricted by the lips, and with Y it is constricted by the tongue. There isn't a complete closure, but it counts as a consonant.

Wales.

Finest land there is. Land of my fathers, that is (actually, land of my mother, but we'd be splitting hairs here, wouldn't we?).

Hawaii got the vowels, Wales got the consonants

There isn't a complete closure, but it counts as a consonant.

I almost get that for 'w' but 'y' = eee-uh

why can't they name things properly? Or places? Hwlffordd

It's the same reason that Polish people "don't name places properly" Hairychested 😉

If English is so bendigedig re: vowels, where is the vowel in the word 'why' ?

Or rhythm

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fwckr

hoolforth its easy man just learn how to do it took me no time and i am fekin brainless.

It's not vowels that's strange in Welsh, it's consonants. On the one hand, there's no "j", "q", "x" (taxi = tacsi!), "k", "v" or "z". On the other, they have "ff", "ph", "ll" and "dd".

No wonder we English get confused!

ff=f
f=v

I was in a shop in Rhayader once

couple of English lads asked where they could watch the England woofterball game

"England, I should think" replied shop assistant lady.

that telled 'em

I love wales, me.
I can see it from my house.
Some days i ride there and nip and out.

😆 @ Charliemort!

The welsh can't pronounce their "language" propperly either, they just made it on the spur of the moment to offend you english folk for a laugh since they got their arses kicked by you. It's a petty form of rebellion but it keeps the livestock interfering folk happy. 😀

Shouldn't us Welsh boys have started speaking Welsh as soon as you English walked in to through the door?

(For no (English) vowels I used to live in a place called Cwmbwrla.)

Idlejon- I think you'll find there's an "a" hiding at the end of Cwmbmrla

Doesn't he mean 'Cumbria'?

The welsh can't pronounce their "language" [b]propperly[/b] either

no more than the English can spell their hodge-podge of borrowed words 🙂

hodge-podge! I'll have you know from my studies of the language it's a carefully chosen multi-cultural mix to reflect the key points of each tribe and country that invaded the sh*t out of england and in no way reflects the fact that we're crap at fighting and always get over-run by some cheese eating surrender monkeys or pickled herring munching nords, and the bloody saxons, and the romans or.........

But I think Wales is the best part of the UK... I live in Glasgow at the moment, but you mark my words, I'll live in Wales sooner or later.

tazzymtb - Member
Idlejon- I think you'll find there's an "a" hiding at the end of Cwmbmrla

DOH! But I think you know what I mean?

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