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[endlessrarities]

I guess I'm Welsh then...

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[ooxc.livejournal.com]

Very pleased to hear - but what brought this on?

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Why, Wales put in a creditable performance against Scotland in the rugby field.

This may change next year, but, between you and me, I secretly cheer on Wales in Wales v. Scotland, because I like being Welsh!

Oh, what an upbringing I had. All my Welsh Aunts and Grannies used to declare, "Oooh! She's proper Scots," while my Scottish schoolfriends used to tease me ceaselessly about my silly accent.

[gylfinir.livejournal.com]

Dim byd yn bod gyda hynna ;)

[roaming.livejournal.com]

"Anything world being with ashes"?

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

"Bod" can mean "being", but is some contexts, it best translates as "matter" as in "Be sy'n bod?"/"What's the matter?"

So "Dim byd yn bod gyda hynna" is "Nothing the matter with that."

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

I shall have to learn this one and add it to my meagre list of phrases. Though no doubt my pronunciation will be hopeless...

[roaming.livejournal.com]

I confess, I put it into a google translation link. I would not even attempt to learn Welsh: just trying pronunciations leaves me tongue-tied! :-/

But where did the translator come up with "ashes"? Still weird.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I have no idea where "ashes" came from, neither the tree nor the residue from a fire resemebles the word "hynna". Sometimes that google translate seems to have a vivid imagination! :)

[gylfinir.livejournal.com]

"Nothing wrong with that." ;)

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Now I know that I'm an inadequate Welsh person. Since all I can say is 'Hello, everybody' and 'The pencil is over there,' "Cheers/good health" and recite the name of a certain railway station. And I can't write any of this down!

Help me. I'm a mixed up kid...

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I think "Dim byd yn bod gyda hynna" means "Nothing is the matter with that."

[roaming.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess llongyfarchiadau! then. :-)

[readthisandweep.livejournal.com]

Diawn.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Oh, Lordy me! They're all talking Welsh now. I really should excavate my Welsh language textbook from my Dad's house. I bought it with my pocket money at the age of twelve when I was suffering an identity crisis...

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I take it we won then?

I really don't follow sport, but the tricky one in our family is Wales versus Ireland because our daughter married and Irish chap. :)

[readthisandweep.livejournal.com]

Wales versus Ireland kills me. I'm 3/4 Irish but Wales has my heart.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

And I thought I had problems with Wales versus Scotland. Or Wales 'V' Scotland, as they call it now...