Cyfarchion o Gymru

[Iestyn]

Greetings from Wales

Hi my name is Iestyn, I decided to join your site after reading your threads for a few months. I've been an Atheist for several years and enjoy good debates.

Hope I can contibute to this great forum. ;D

[solidsquid]

IVJ said:

Greetings from Wales

Hi my name is Iestyn, I decided to join your site after reading your threads for a few months. I've been an Atheist for several years and enjoy good debates.

Hope I can contibute to this great forum. ;D

Welcome to the board Iestyn. That's a very unique name you have. We hope you stay and post often.

[droskey]

Yes, welcome.

[Iestyn]

Thanks, Yes I guess my name probably looks like a bunch of random letters to you. Its prenounced "Yes Tin".

[nonny]

WELCOME!! ;D

wow you read your stuff for a few months i can barly do that

[Enuffalready]

IVJ said:

Thanks, Yes I guess my name probably looks like a bunch of random letters to you. Its prenounced "Yes Tin".

Welcome and thanks for the pronounciation help.

[Tom]

Hi Iestyn,
I heard that Wales is changing its road signs to Gaelic only. That's like the French editing out English words like "hotdog"and it seems kind of backwards. It's interesting to go to China, for example, and hear the Chinese speaking to Germans and others in English. My family is Slavic, and I personally like its sound, but English is the language that is uniting the world whether we like it or not.
However, I won't hold you personally entirely to blame for what may be going on in Wales.
Tom

[Iestyn]

Hi Iestyn,
I heard that Wales is changing its road signs to Gaelic only

Hi Tom, nice to meet you. Nope signs are staying bilingual. Besides we dont speak Gaelic, we speak Welsh or as we call it Cymraeg. Their may be a bunch of hardliners that want that to happen but it wont.

That's like the French editing out English words like "hotdog"and it seems kind of backwards. It's interesting to go to China, for example, and hear the Chinese speaking to Germans and others in English. My family is Slavic, and I personally like its sound, but English is the language that is uniting the world whether we like it or not.

I agree, at my university department we have a range of people from all over the world and English is the medium we use to speak to each other. Having a languge that can be used all over the world is great but I dont want that to kill off native languages as with each language that dies off we lose a way of looking at the world.

However, I won't hold you personally entirely to blame for what may be going on in Wales.

Thanks, but its not happening. Changing the signs would be illigal as Welsh and English have equal status thats protected by the law.

Iestyn

[Tom]

Thanks, Iestyn. Glad to hear it. Now I have to figure out who laid that misinformation on me recently. I visited Wales a few years ago and really enjoyed the scenery and the people. I'm not poor, but visiting the charity shops and picking up a few old belts and hats as souvenirs was fun, too.
Tom

[Iestyn]

I visited Wales a few years ago and really enjoyed the scenery and the people.

Which part did you visit?

[Tom]

Just Cardiff and a little of the south coast. I'd love to see the whole country.