as a welsh person i want you all to accept that W is a vowel because honestly it makes pronouncing acronyms so much easier. wlw becomes ‘ooloo’, wjec becomes ‘oojeck’, love yourselves and stop giving us shit when we tell you welsh has 7 vowels. english actually has 15 vowel sounds but because y’all only use 5 letters you have to rely on a spelling system devised by satan
and please, enough with the “keyboard smashing” jokes. not original, not funny.
yeah, we can actually because the spelling is phonetic. meanwhile english folks have placenames like bicester or keighley or beaulieu, which you have to learn the pronunciation for individually because the rules are so inconsistent. i mean people can’t even agree how to pronounce marylebone but sure welsh place names are the weird ones
fun fact: welsh orthography is actually easy to read if you take your head out of your arse for one minute and learn our alphabet – just like french, or spanish, or korean, because surprise! languages use different spelling systems that are not based on english. novel, i know – and in the 18th century, travelling schools were able to teach people to read and write welsh in a matter of months, so that wales enjoyed a literate majority, a rare thing in europe at the time
fun fact: the english have been taking the piss out of welsh for years, just like they’ve been doing for irish, and scots gaelic, and cornish, and british sign language, and a hundred and one other languages, because evidently the fact that the whole world isn’t anglophone and monocultured and Still Part Of The Empire is a problem, and something that needs to be corrected
(quietly cheers in support of the Welsh, and your language sounds beautiful, too)
drag them, wales!
Go Wales
the thing people need to get through their heads is what the original statement is:
W is a vowel, and LL and FF are single letters not two Ls or two Fs. Saying LL is two letters is as dumb as saying W is two letters just because it looks like two Vs.
We have a different alphabet, it just looks a lot like the english one.
Welsh is, in addition, one of the oldest surviving indo-European languages. It dates back as far as 4,000 years and is one of the few surviving Celtic languages.
I am dying because this song is stuck in my head after one listen and I genuinely like it. Like I wasn’t super into boy bands so I don’t think it is a nostalgia effect. Also, I love that AJ is still committed to his Aesthetic
“it wasn’t until a few years ago that carmakers began regularly testing female crash dummies in drivers’ seats. For 30 years, it was just assumed that using male crash test dummies would suffice, even though women are typically smaller than men and the smaller a person is the less force they can tolerate in a crash. That cars were not tested to be safe for female bodies helps to explain why women are killed and injured in car accidents at disproportionately higher rates than men. It’s because women were not included in the analysis—at all.”
Plants from 50 different countries….you know what that sounds like? A recipe for invasive species. It doesn’t look like they give a damn about containment, either, so if even one of those 40,000 plants has incompatible allelochemicals or an enemy release mechanism, Seattle’s native flora is screwed. This is not nature, it’s a Frankensteinian parody of it that could never exist on its own but has been artificially kept up to flaunt its owner’s wealth.
The perfect example of what the rich want nature to be like: contained and commodified at high prices for their own personal use and with all the necessary but inconvenient parts of an ecosystem excised, while the lower class labor in concrete jungles because their own environments have been destroyed and desperately fight over the chance to just see a bit of green again.
If you ever need an example of the exact opposite of solar punk, this is it. A sanitized version of nature for the elite, built off the backs of exploited people and ecological destruction.
So what’s being said here is that we could end up having an environmental disaster caused by Jeff Bezos’s balls.
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