General Chat

Oh you know me so well...lololol :-D :-D always up for a lively discussion

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When I read the article, just knew it would end up here !!! :-D :-D :-D <3

@RR - memories.... beer and apple juice, but no mention of 'korn' with the latter?? :-0

Hello MrD, you are obviously feeling better :-D

Robyn is not a Welsh name - it's origin is Old Germanic. The variations - -yn and -in are Old English and French, respectively.

Lewis is a cantankerous old person who is a regular contributor to newspaper 'letter's pages' where he also shows his true colours - a trouble-maker, s**t-stirrer, call it what you will. His contributions are in English, however.

When Archdruid, he also boycotted Liverpool's application to hold an Eisteddfod in the City (2007) - it would have been the fourth time this would have taken place there. His reason was that it was 'stupid', and again the flooding of Capel Celyn by LCC was sited (even though this happened in late 50's to mid 60's).

No. He's just a little man who believes he should have a prominent place on a large stage. A left-wing Nationalist who believes he can do / say what he likes, but does not credit others with the right to do the same - like a lot of cowardly bullies, really

I wonder if he's related to Saunders Lewis?

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Rose,you might have played with my daughter who was born in 1958!
The only thing was that during school holidays when I was very busy,as I did B&B as well in a 17 roomed house.my children..son 1961 ...went to stay on their holidays in....wait for it...Manchester!

I always worried that they could run across the prom to the cafe and cars were up and down.My mum loved having them and they enjoyed the rest of the year living by the sea.

Caveat to the demand of speaking in Welsh, youngest prosecutes in both languages because a defendant in court can insist on only giving evidence in Welsh.

Banks and many large shops, hotels etc., you will see staff wearing a badge which tells the customer they are Welsh speaking (I used those in the hotel). This saves a lot of embarassment for staff :-) they won't be approached by a Welsh speaker if the badge doesn't indicate bi-lingual.

When I go into hospital in Ceredigion or Pembrokeshire one of the questions for the ward staff notes is 'which language would you prefer?' Perfectly understandable when a patient is stressed and they would be more comfortable communicating in their first language.

It's a topic that doesn't HAVE to cause conflict and I lay the blame with the Welsh Language activists who did a lot of damage in the 70s/80s/early 90s.

"Talk tidy" - John Edward's 'The Art of Speaking Wenglish'.

One of my new year resolutions - a bit more practice. Beautiful!

Rose...Glad you enjoyed your holidays in...Abermaw or Y Bermo ,both Welsh Spellings, my daughter won her way to Urdd eisteddfod with her Welsh Speaking poetry.
The beach is as good as any and the stretch from there to Harlech is wonderful.
I had a beach cafe at the far end of the prom from 1962-70 where there was safe bathing.
I do understand phrases in Welsh,but not enough for a whole conversation.Where I live now is much more English than Gwynedd.Still a few farmers up in the hills but seems to be a retirement place.
We used to call it....Costa Geriatrica!!....don't know what that is in Welsh!!

I wonder what this man is a Doctor of? Also meybe it was a stunt to get more sales for his books ,(It has been Known) and John, the first world war was mainly caused by an Assasination of a Grand Duke,(Thought you would have Known That.) Also ,Being(as you state)Educated and Lived in Wolverhampton,also were no doubt employed by English people are,nt you yourself being a little Racist towards the English who Housed and Educated you?You by your own words are only Half Welsh So what is your Problem? I,m Welsh and so are all my family going back years and years in History,And I lived in Wolverhampton and was educated there.I think you tend to Jump on Bandwaggons and do a lot of Name Dropping to get attention, I think its time you learnt your lesson and accepted the fact that you,ve been rumbled by the people on here as just an attention seeker .**M**

Well as my OH would say......'They walk among us.'

Totally irrelevant but it made me smile when I remembered it just now.

As a child and for many years before we moved to Gwynedd, we had holidays in Barmouth as my mum had done as a child, and we used to do lots of walking...everywhere we went we saw the signpost to "Llwybr Cyhoeddus" and often we would walk for miles in search of this alluring place ...always seemingly just out of reach like 'Shangri-la' :-)

Llwybr Cyhoeddus?....public footpath :-D

sounds more than likely

Did I read somewhere that this man complained to English
Newspapers about the staff not speaking Welsh to him?

Emma x

Just a little man that gets a kick out of bullying and attempting to belittle a woman imho.

John, how on earth can you predict that? You seem to live on a different planet sometimes. How you can continue to defend such arrogant and disrespectful behaviour astounds me. I suspect you are just doing it for effect.

I predict he will get a ban from Spar and no apology until such time as he apologises to the poor assistant. She's the wronged person here.

I also hope he's spoken to "off the record" by the police for refusing to enter into a discussion with the first policeman who came along because he wasn't Welsh speaking. Pathetic.

I would hope that most Welsh language activists (and I know a few) will be embarrassed by his stupidity, which reflects badly on them.

don't think any of us on here would bother paying for a stamp to abuse him

Rose. It seemed to get diffused pretty easily once the Welsh speaking policeman appeared. Everyone seems to assume Dr Lewis was looking for trouble.

I am sure he went through thr till and they had a friendly chat. And nothing wrong in my view in him asking the girl to say the amount in Welsh. No, she didn't have to by law. And probably she always said the money in English and didn'y see why the old boy had asked her to say it in Welsh as well.

Simple incident which anyone at the sharp customer end of business knows how to diffuse. We were including difficult Welsh language scenarios in Tesco customer training 30 years ago. He would have dug his heels in (and many posters on here would do exactly the same if they felt they had a point of principle to force home) and she would have rung her bell for help.

That is how wars start between octogenarian Welsh speakers and younger Welsh speakers in Pwllheli. Thank goodness that the policeman pulled the plug out before the bomb really went off. Didn't WW1 start a bit like that?

He will get a nice apology from Spar, loads of letter of abuse from folk on here (he lives in nearby Nefyn and that should find him), letters of support from the radicalised free Welsh and no one has been killed. Or called a hillock ;-)

well said Rose!!!!

Ok thanks Rose and Ann...so there wasn't any obligation on the shop assistant's behalf to speak Welsh?....then she's blameless imho.

I am rather glad I only speak English :-D