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FGS!!!!!! the posting I reported was all in Welsh - I, and others on this site do not speak Welsh, I have no idea what you said, neither do I care - you really are quite insufferable and you are also giving the Welsh a bad name if indeed you are Welsh - you have definitely overstepped the mark now and I have not been intolerant and have made a justified report of your posting - answer that if you can - in English

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Have to agree that all posts which include non standard English should have a translation.

If not that will exclude too many posters :-(

repone in vestri rectum - does that need translating?..lolol

LOL You are totally wrong, AnnC. Just cast your eyes about five posts back.

And if you want other examples of "insufferable" people to report because they don't use English all the time. I will give them to you.

Latin wasn't my strongest subject in languages , but I get your drift Sue.

Guess I shouldn't say S'mae any more ;-)

Edit. a post in Welsh ,whilst not be breaking T & C rules is not understandable by
most peeps on here !

you have done exactly what people complain about regarding Welsh speakers - you posted in Welsh knowing full well that it would not be understood by the vast majority of people on this site - just what non Welsh speakers dislike so much about Welsh speakers when they revert to Welsh if a non Welsh speaker arrives on the scene - sneaky and underhand - to me you are just as bad as your pillock of an Archdruid friend

I can only presume it was a response to me that you posted in Welsh knowing full well that I would not understand it and that is why English only is the rule for this site - unless of course you put a translation alongside - which you did not

AnnC You go to church - in Wales. Have you really not heard the word nefoedd - heaven.

Ein Tad, yr hwn wyt yn y nefoedd
Sancteiddier dy enw

Our Father, who art in heaven
Hallowed be thy name

I have never in my life tried to bamboozle a non Welsh speaker. If you thought it was an insult to you (which it clearly was not) you could have asked me.

And do you not think that one of the many that understand some Welsh on this thread would not have jumped down my throat if I had been discourteous to you? you have vastly more friends than I have.

Edit. Is there a good reason why you have not reported the OP of the "Do You Live in Wales?" thread :-S Masses of untranslated Welsh right through that thread.

Being an English person, not only would I not understand the spoken word....but would not have a clue how to pronounce any of those words

and why exactly would I wish to report Shaun - a gentleman in every sense of the word

and did I think it was an insult to me? I have no idea, if you had to cloak your comment in the Welsh language I can only speculate - I could have responded in Italian, but I would not dream of doing such a thing, it would rude

the opening post from "Do you live in Wales"

Sue's started a thread for Aussies only, I have gone through it and what a laugh I have had, it also brings people together, great.
SO lets have a Welsh thread, you have not got to be born and bread in Wales to take part. I know Ann of Green Gables his sniffing Welsh air just like myself so come on join thee thread and have a laugh, it's FREE.
Regards.
Shaun on the Mountain



by the way "Ann of Green Gables" is me, I changed my board name t AnnCardiff


So what exactly is reportable about that posting - and do remember that Shaun politely asked you to cease posting on the thread after you caused the first dissent ever on there, and you told Sparking Sandie that you thought the thread was "banale"

Those posters that use commonplace greetings or sign offs on the Wales thread would always explain nicely the translation. They mostly comprise of a couple of words which translate to:
Hello
Good morning/afternoon
All
Luck
Good night
How are you
etc.,
not controversial and easily picked up as they are said by the same posters.

Just my opinion of course.

none of these welsh words are working their way into my psyche.....I learnt Latin at school and that made a kind of sense..but welsh is just a series of lwlllwsgogogowwws to me lol

and although I attend church, and our Rector is Welsh speaking, Welsh is never used in our services

Keep Shaun's thread out of this discussion !

Any Welsh words on it are merely greetings or goodbyes, whom even non speaking Welsh peeps would understand.
As Sue pointed.out

I was thinking earlier that the people on this thread who were posting in welsh were excluding others like me who do not speak or read welsh. I would not report it myself but surely if it is against t&cs for one poster to do it it is wrong for all of the other posters as well.Both John and MrDaff have been using welsh with no English translation

*Please note I am not one of John's followers or friends or a member of his so called harem* But fair is fair after all.

i Said this earlier in the thread...and it's more relevant now than when i first said it.........i REALLY did intend to visit Wales this summer....and as a result of some of the posts on this thread i feel it would make my holiday awkward when all i want are a few days of FUN with my family...sod that.........i'll go to the lincolnshire coast instead......less petrol money and folk who aren't out to prove a point.

Sorry for the non extremists..but I'm genuinely appalled.

...and Sue will vouch for the fact that I was looking into a visit...no shade of b******t in my posts whatsoever.

Muffy - you can visit me here in Cardiff and you will get a true Welsh welcome - the Welsh are a welcoming nation, they really are - I agree that some of what has been posted on here does give a rotten impression, but it's certainly not the Wales I know and love and my family have been here for centuries - I'm back to the 1700s on my tree in Wales

Sad Muffy......but it is the extremist that give us a bad reputation ! :-|

Happy holidays ,where ever you choose.

Ann i LOVED the folk who I bought my collie from in eggulsglural (sorry can't remember the welsh spelling) they spoke welsh but didn't ram it all down my throat....just were glad that I loved their pup and wanted to give her a good home...i had nothing but good vibes towards the Welsh til recently....now i just feel that I'd risk ballsing up my holiday so some shallow twat could prove a point.,no thanks.we don't have many holidays ...and i want the ones we do manage to take to be special......not fraught with poiltics.....