MAN
Hello is this the Welsh Language Society?
VOICE
Ie
MAN
I take it that means yes?
VOICE
Ie
MAN
Good can you tell me what the Welsh for Four Nil is? I want to take the piss out of my neighbour
Phone Goes dead
Topical Telephone
Funny.
Not sure it needs the middle two lines.
Ie exactly
There must be schools near the Welsh border that are literally teaching kids to speak in a different language than people on the other side of the road.
I live 15 mins from the welsh border (on the English side, I'll have you know!), and there's not a lot of Taff-speak until you get a bit further in.
All the road signs are in both languages, though.
Consequently the place is full of giant, unwieldy signs.
I have said it before and I will say it again , before anymore money time or effort is put into promoting Welsh as a language. The whole thing should hinge on data.
So as every 999 call is recorded they should check to see how many people ring for help in Welsh. I reckon that there wouldn't be one caller. It would be all
'I need an ambulance now isn't it'
'My house is on fire and its not my second home so you'll have to put it out'
'My wifes just hit me over the head with a frying pan for listening to Max Boyce records' .
Lets not forget that we ran a war on the fact that you slapped anyone who looked shifty in case their first reaction was 'Gott in Himmel' so its a tried and trusted method.