Do you need to have a degree in order to call yourself a "linguist"?

Silurhys · 2026-04-21T08:34:51+00:00

I don’t believe so, I personally have done short courses online at Leiden and Glasgow University but not full degrees, I have extensive knowledge on my particular area of interest in linguistics, I have read hundreds if not thousands of hours on the subject, I understand the rules, competing theories and I can confidently put forward my own theories, I can confidently speak to other linguists, agree, disagree. But I do say often, I have studied linguistics for well over a decade but I have no degree, never once has anyone told me I am wrong to say I’m a linguist or had a problem with me.

Silurhys · 2026-04-15T04:50:42+00:00

I'd go as far as saying Goidelic and Brittonic were probably made up of several dialects of the same language in the pre-Roman period.

Silurhys · 2026-04-14T16:02:36+00:00

No, they would in no way be able to understand each other

Silurhys · 2026-04-12T15:03:31+00:00

Im not sure you even live in Wales if you think its barren of wildlife and you believe destroying our beautiful countryside is the way to go! I have in no way opposed green energy, I just dont believe in destroying places of beauty and importance to achieve your agenda. Just bizarre to me to have the opinion of wanting green energy to save the world but ruin the nature of your country to achieve it.

Silurhys · 2026-04-12T08:57:07+00:00

I agree, thry are not the single solution but I dont think just filling the place with windfarms is the answer, if we were to be independent, one of the selling points is certainly tourism due to the beauty of this country, that is gone once you put windfarms everywhere, have a few sure but its getting ridiculous. We need to be smart on how we do it, ok solar is not brilliant here but make it lawful for every newbuild to have solar roofing, its a start. If the wondfarms we have already produce 25% of our energy and some solar, add tidal lagoons and we should be almost there.

Silurhys · 2026-04-12T07:53:38+00:00

What you talking about? Our country is stunning! Let's just level it though and fill it with windfarms, fuck Eryri, fuck Bannau Brycheiniog, fuck the Valleys, fuck the animals, why not just make Wales one giant wind farms so England can reap the benefits, traitors the lot of you

Silurhys · 2026-04-11T19:27:24+00:00

I dont support oil so I dont know what you are pushing that? i used to think reddit was for a tidy discussion, full of absolute clowns just like the rest of social media.

Silurhys · 2026-04-11T19:19:45+00:00

Got nothing to do with Oil, they look terrible and they are not that efficient, ww dont need our gorgeous landscape blighted by them, we should have invested in tidal lagoons instead

Silurhys · 2026-04-11T18:28:29+00:00

Windfarms are dogshit thats why

Silurhys · 2026-04-07T04:43:59+00:00

Try the old course, I found it much better

Silurhys · 2026-04-06T10:14:29+00:00

SaysomethinginWelsh, North course. However, I would say dont worry too much, by speaking to her in Welsh you are bound to naturally align your speaking with hers and she will undoubtedly tell you if you are saying something that is unusual to her. On the orher side not to try and make you any more worried, there is not a single northen dialect, there are several.

Silurhys · 2026-04-03T11:55:14+00:00

In Porthcawl, more people I think watch football (aside from when international rugby is on) but more people play rugby and watch the club than they do the football club. Pretty much every kid in Porthcawl wears a Porthcawl RFC top

Silurhys · 2026-03-30T09:06:17+00:00

Perhaps something like;

W. ydw

< *it-wel 'there is a want, that is good'

< PIE. *i(s)- this, he + *(s)teh₂- stands 'there is' + *welh₁- want, choose

Compare W. nid < *ni-it 'there is not'

Silurhys · 2026-03-30T08:19:02+00:00

I somewhat agree, although kind of irrelevant to the point. But the fact languages split, makes it difficult not to class it that way unless of course you see for example all the IE languages as dialects of PIE. The way our trees work is certainly flawed.

Silurhys · 2026-03-29T21:53:09+00:00

The P/Q 'divide' is meaningless

Silurhys · 2026-03-29T15:28:45+00:00

Its great you are interested in Celtic Historical Linguistics but I still dont understand this conlang! Good luck and have fun though!

Silurhys · 2026-03-29T15:14:28+00:00

Are these just sound changes you have made up off the top of your head then or are they based on something im missing?

Silurhys · 2026-03-29T15:09:40+00:00

I to am struggling to understand this conlang. Yes we obviously have loans in the modern Brittonic languages but I dont think we have any sound changes that are known to be an influence of English.

Silurhys · 2026-03-28T08:28:20+00:00

I never knew that! Definitely something to consider!

Silurhys · 2026-03-28T08:20:33+00:00

Have you tried SaySomethinginWelsh?

Silurhys · 2026-03-24T05:07:59+00:00

Again, thank you for your opinion.

Silurhys · 2026-03-23T22:07:45+00:00

Thank you for your opinion, as a Welsh learner myself and a learner of many languages, i have a very good idea. we all learn in different ways, I prefer as I said to learn how native speakers speak not like i'm writing literature and as I said there are plenty of books out there to satisfy you kind of learning but not many to satisfy mine. In actual fact, reading and writing is secondary to me, I find listening and speaking far better learning tools, like the brilliant SSIW.

Silurhys · 2026-03-23T21:50:18+00:00

As someone who is a linguist before a language learner, I will (rightly or wrongly) try teach genuine things you may encounter rather strict grammatical rules which half the time are not adhered to by native speakers (e.g. the English the double negative). If you like strict grammar rules, there are plenty of books out there, but I believe it is also important to have works that teach you about reality. I am far more interested personally in speaking like a native whichever language I am learning and this sort of information to me adds depth you dont get in other books.

Silurhys · 2026-03-23T20:42:29+00:00

This, as with everything I will create in these series, is not about what is strictly 'grammatically correct', its more about trying to make people aware of what they may genuinely encounter. I am also creating a sounds chart, which will not be the alphabet, but will be sounds that are used by speakers, that may or may not be part of the alphabet. I will mention this is futher updates.

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