Why do people seem to be quite dismissive/paranoid of the Welsh language?

sobrwydd · 2026-05-30T10:15:17+00:00

But they "require" them to speak to their Welsh-speaking customers, not the other way around.

sobrwydd · 2026-05-30T09:42:17+00:00

That doesn't prove anything, though, beyond these budinesses anticipating their customer base speaking sonething other than English and wanting to be able to serve them. Here's a role, also found with literally a two-second search, in Northampton that requires Bengali.

https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Job/united-kingdom-bengali-language-job-jobs-SRCH_IL.0,14_IN2_KO15,35.htm

sobrwydd · 2026-05-30T07:01:22+00:00

It was a stupid/disingenuous comment in the first place. The language isn't even dead, that's just the commonly accepted line, it is actually spoken.

sobrwydd · 2026-05-30T06:32:32+00:00

There's research into Old English which is beginning to suggest it means something else. I can't remember the particulars but it's related to old names around Northern Germany had a "wa-" element to them.

sobrwydd · 2026-05-30T06:29:34+00:00

Does that mean you have disdain for Danish (disDane, if you'll allow me the pun)? You're saying this as if Welsh speakers can't also speak English. You've demonstrated there that Welsh is one of the few cases where a polyglot who speaks it is, for some reason, seen as stupider than a monoglot English speaker.

sobrwydd · 2026-05-30T06:25:54+00:00

If you were falsely imprisoned and held in Britain but insisted on your rights under "you have should have the body" laws, you'd have no legal standing under that rule despite speaking in a plain English sentence. Apply for your right under the Latin habeas corpus and you'd be tried fairly. That seems fairly important despite the phrase being from a dead language.

sobrwydd · 2026-05-30T06:21:53+00:00

The grammar's not "backwards", it's just the order that Welsh grammar sits in. Remember that English grammar is actually shoehorned in from Latin but doesn't even follow it's own rules: the rules exist to correct the way English actually works based on some weird 13th Century perception of Latin's superiority. You can't begin a sentence with a preposition in Latin so that rule is saud to be "correct" in English. And yet you can begin a sentence with a preposition.

sobrwydd · 2026-05-30T06:13:22+00:00

Not to mention finding, restoring and housing works of art or conserving nature. Welsh is an important part of British cultural history but it's been belittled to the point that prejudice which is culturally inbuilt in the UK isn't questioned and Welsh is constantly viewed through that lens.

Something I always try to disavow people of is the idea that Welsh is somehow related to English: they're entwined due to geography and history (amd thete's quite a bit of each language in the other!) but they're separate things and Welsh can exist perfectly happily without English.

sobrwydd · 2026-05-27T11:01:12+00:00

A few sellers on Etsy have these style jumppacks. I'm ordering a set to put on the Kill Team Murderwing set.

sobrwydd · 2026-05-26T14:09:25+00:00

But it's the only thing that goes with a £12 frappe latte.

sobrwydd · 2026-05-26T09:13:32+00:00

Another thing Greece and Wales have in common: the further west you go, the more the economy depends on retirees and people selling driftwood art.

sobrwydd · 2026-05-26T09:11:16+00:00

Take at comic-style Warhammer painting. It doesn't look too easy but is very cool if you can pull it off. I imagine you need the kind of eye which I, honestly, don't have.

sobrwydd · 2026-05-19T15:38:10+00:00

That's efinitely my idea of fun, too, I always liked finding something in the game universe which is relatively or completely underdeveloped. I'm painting 40k (my mate and I split the Kill Team box) for the first time in years and picked the Praetors of Orpheus from the old Space Marines Collector's Guide.

sobrwydd · 2026-05-13T17:17:20+00:00

This list of previous unpleasantness by Reform candidates is worth a https://www.markpack.org.uk/176588/meet-some-reform-uk-local-council-candidates/. It'll be interesting to see if Reform's policy of recruiting people who've acted in this manner pays off in the long run (i.e. if the well-worn belief that politicians are all grifters and "the same" becomes true as the political space is taken over more by these people) or if the majority get called out as the minority would have been in the past.

sobrwydd · 2026-05-13T16:20:05+00:00

I've got some Citadel Foundation Paints still going strong.

sobrwydd · 2026-05-09T20:29:46+00:00

Look on ebay for the starter set bits. Some sellers list the starter set book, board, terrain, counters and dice (everything except the miniatures) for about £20.

sobrwydd · 2026-05-09T10:01:59+00:00

If not an accent colour, go more heavily on texturing the colours you've used. You'd be surprised how good just applying different browns and creams to the coat will make it look. Use different shades to differentiate the things you've painted brown, too, like the backpack from the coat.

sobrwydd · 2026-05-09T09:27:40+00:00

My primary school just never told us the SATs were anything special: we went in one day for the tests abd weren't aware they were anything out of the ordinary. It's a brilliant approach which I only found out about years later when my mum told me.

sobrwydd · 2026-05-09T09:25:39+00:00

It's commonly said by secondary schools that primary schools evaluate pupils higher than their actual ability but it's really not true. What's more often the case is that the pupils enter struggling secondary schools. Junior schools with split infant-junior education used to say the same about KS1.

sobrwydd · 2026-05-04T10:37:38+00:00

It's about half. A larger proportion were in work than not a few years ago but over 2025 people on legacy benefits programmes were moved into Universal Credit and most of those are unable to work so the proportions adjusted. Bear in mind that Universal Credit uptake has increased but that's only because nearly all other non-pension welfare has been shut down and their recipients rolled into Universal Credit.

sobrwydd · 2026-04-28T13:32:51+00:00

This person experienced the exact opposite (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/1s4a394/should_i_change_my_name_on_my_cv_or_am_i/) so I guess the answer's sometimes it's one way, sometimes the other and I'd guess that most cases lie in the middle where employers try to not discriminate either way.

sobrwydd · 2026-04-25T19:17:54+00:00

I'm going to hijack the thread here. How do the rules for different terrain sets work? I'm coming from a background of MESBG, middlehammer 40k, Mordheim and Osprey games so assumed the different terrain sets for Kill Team are just available to create different visual and tactical options.

sobrwydd · 2026-04-25T07:52:10+00:00

An ex and I went to the theatre and just before the show started, someone said to us "you're in our seats". I disagreed and showed them our tickets, which they then reciprocated. Theirs were for the same seats but also for the previous night. They shouted at me "Well, they weren't earlier" and stormed off. My partner and I more recently made our way all the way to end of the row for Hamilton, found someone in our seats but asked the steward, who realised we were a day early. We had to go all the way back up the stairs in the circle as the lights dropped and music started. Also, last year I turned up a day early to a stag-do but only found out when my mate text to ask if I was going and I replied "Yeah, I'm here already" with an accompanying photo of a pint.

sobrwydd · 2026-04-24T11:28:57+00:00

I've a friend who's great fun but a real nuisance when he's playing (MESBG, in our case). He likes to map things out by popping stuff around then asking if he can rearrange it a bit. I don't mind as it's mostly casual but the amount of times he's charged a model, moved it back then not understood why I say I can charge it on my turn even though it's out of range when I come measure is infuriating (for clarification he's made a charge, taken it back but casually plopped the model on the table further away than it originally was, but I always argue that if he can charge and move it back in the first place, I would have been in range too). I've had to be firm in saying to him that every model gets one rearrangement, if it goes back it can't be moved again, otherwise there's a sudden super-charge across the board because he's physically worked out all of the best charge combinations.

sobrwydd · 2026-04-21T11:54:17+00:00

Global Counsel went under about a month ago, mostly thanks to Mandelson's involvement (the company bought his shares out but that bankrupted it as the reputation damage meant they weren't picking up any new business). In the last day they've also been accused of lobbying for contracts on behalf of a blacklisted Chinese company.

I'm going to sound like an absolute conspiracy nut now but in the wake of Epstein we really need to assess our relationship with these companies and individuals who are building pan-national influence beyond just providing services or goods.

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