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You mean they have signs written in English in Wales???
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that was potionelly dangerous i wonder if there were any accidents there
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What is the Welsh for 'Darwin award'?
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No Darwin award there as that is what finished off the welsh.Originally Posted by AdrianII
What is the Welsh for 'Darwin award'?
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I've noticed that in less Welsh speaking areas of Wales (like the South East) some of the bilingual sign posting is done very badly. I bet that was done by somebody on purpose to wind up Welsh speakers (as I guess you'd want to look right as the traffic drives on the left).
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All I can say is, Scrabble in Welsh must be a blood sport.
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you'd need some new tiles:
Some Welsh letters are represented by two letters of the Latin alphabet.
You'd also have to discard several letters (ks, zs etc.).
Unless they have a special Welsh edition out.
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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
How many points would you get for that.
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I'm not sure it would fit on the board...
We spend a really stupid amount of money on bilingual signs. I've never met one person in Wales who didn't speak English.
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BKS:
I've met several people in Wales who speak Welsh but not English (mostly Patagonian) and plenty who are far more comfortable in Welsh than in English.
And then there are the foreigners you encounter there too (and I mean the non-English foreigners) whose English isn't always very good.
Anyway, isn't Wales meant to be bilingual Welsh/English now (National Assembly claims it is anyway)? The Welsh speakers tend to have kept their side of the bargain, what about everybody else?
I bet you there are far worse wastes of money than having slightly larger signs with double the lettering on them (which is what the bilingual ones are). When it comes down to it, what is the problem with slighlty larger signs? If you have no problem with slightly larger signs then you really can't have much problem with bilingual signs.
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Martinus:
that'd be 51 letters in Welsh and 58 in English. It would not fit the scrabble board so we couldn't account for multiple word/letter scores.
I can't be bothered working out the actual points though.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4308262.stm
Welsh scrabble.
I discovered that Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
would not be allowed becuase it is a place name.
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beautiful.
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