Poll: What do you know about Wales?
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All I really know is that there is a Welsh language, in which I doubt I can pronounce a single word, and that they have a bitching flag. Thought I had an idea of where in the UK Wales is located, but the map proved me slightly wrong.
Had to check that one out, though I found that Old Latin is over 2000 years old and Old Welsh is 1400 years old.wakenbake said:
Don't go to Wales, Baldrick, it's a ghastly place. Huge gangs of tough sinewy men roam the valleys terrorising people with their close-harmony singing. You need half a pint of phlegm in your throat just to pronounce the placenames. Never ask for directions in Wales, you'll be washing spit out of your hair for a fortnight.
I'm sorry, I never thought I'd actually have a chance to use that quote. Anyways, that is the first, last, and only thing I have heard about it. And considering it comes from Blackadder, I don't think it's entirely accurate. I know it's a part of England and that's about it.
I'm sorry, I never thought I'd actually have a chance to use that quote. Anyways, that is the first, last, and only thing I have heard about it. And considering it comes from Blackadder, I don't think it's entirely accurate. I know it's a part of England and that's about it.
Our national anthem is 10 million times better than the British/English one and we now have two premiership football teams, one of which is completely rocking it in the big leagues
I have English relatives who had the misfortune to be visiting the week after =D We kept on serving them meals with only three peas on their plates and things like thatAlexWinter said:
I'm English but I have been going to uni in Wales for the past three years. I don't know as much as I'd like however...
I know they make Doctor Who and Torchwood there, which is great. Also I know that 'Ll' in a word (e.g Llanfairfach or something) makes a weird 'ql' sound.
I know very little about Wales other then where it is and that its part of the United Kingdom. I also find the Welsh accent irresistibly attractive. I know some people rip on it... but I love it.
I live in Canada and I had a Welsh friend with a locker beside mine for 2 years in highschool. And I still don't know a thing about Wales because I couldn't understand a single word he said. We had a habit of locking each other's locks backwards while their door was open at the end of the day so we'd have to struggle with them just to close them. Good times.
Like I always say to my friends "Fuck the Welsh". I hate those guys.
That was a joke.
I'm Welsh and I just like joking.
That was a joke.
I'm Welsh and I just like joking.
It's actually not part of England, but your confusion is understandable.Tahaneira said:
CGP Grey does a great video on this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10
I know that Welsh looks like either
a) A language they made up to troll the rest of the world, or
b) Cthulhu speech.
And I love it anyways. Because I'm lazy I borrow real-life languages for countries from time-to-time, and I use Welsh for on of the bigger countries. More for naming than anything else, I can't actually speak it, of course ;u;
a) A language they made up to troll the rest of the world, or
b) Cthulhu speech.
And I love it anyways. Because I'm lazy I borrow real-life languages for countries from time-to-time, and I use Welsh for on of the bigger countries. More for naming than anything else, I can't actually speak it, of course ;u;
Well, the flag has a dragon (or some subset) on it, it is part of the UK, W is a vowel, they make Doctor Who in Wales, and the capital is Cardiff. Also the accent is hard for us Americans to distinguish from a Scottish accent unless we watched a lot of Torchwood. That's about all I know.
My expertise ends right about here:
I was compelled to post because I was just watching this guy last night, and reminded when I saw the thread.
I was compelled to post because I was just watching this guy last night, and reminded when I saw the thread.
I was born and live in Wales, although I did actually have to translate the last option on google, because the only GCSE I failed was welsh, but I live in southern pembrokeshire, otherwise known as "Little England beyond Wales" because everyone speaks english as their first language, and have done for several hundreds of years.
The only thing I have heard about them is that the British say "do stuff" with sheep all the time. Then again, I have heard the same about New Zealand...
Da Orky Man said:So, have you ever heard of that little rocky outcropping of England the inhabitants call Wales? (The shaded bit)
You see, on the occasion that I go out of the UK, I find that almost nobody has ever heard of us, although I kind of expected to be rather obscure
So I am asking you, my fellow Escapees, how aware are you of Wales? Thinks its an animal? Well enough to know a Welsh leisure centre when you see one? Or perhaps you are fluent in Welsh, descendant language of much of pre-Roman Europe, and bane of visitors without chest colds.
Or, for the brave amongst you, can you pronounce the names of such towns and villages as Llanfairfechan, Penmaenmawr, Llanelli or even the dreaded Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
What do I know about Wales? Great pasties, horrible weather, some decent ales, lovely ladies, horrible weather, Imogen Thomas, horrible weather, Griff Rhys Jones, horrible weather, Rob Brydon, jokes about sheep and/or horrible weather.