I am staggered by the sheer hugeness of this.
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@HarriettMB @2legged My father's first language was Scottish Gaelic, but when he went to school in the 1920s English was compulsory and the children would be punished if caught using their mother tongue. Things have changed since then but it's too little too late I'm afraid.
@CGM When my mother was 4yo, in the late 1930s, she went to the local primary school.
To use the toilet, she had to ask in irish. But her West Brit parents spoke not a word of it, and nor did she. So she pissed herself, and was sent home humiliated.
Her father took her out of the school. She did v v well at a school elsewhere, and became a poly linguist. But to this day she cannot even pronounce an Irish name or word.
I despise the linguistic fascists who did that to her.
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I am staggered by the sheer hugeness of this.
The #WelshGovernment has a policy of bilingualism. All meetings include translators, so that speakers of English or Welsh can participate equally. But every member of the Welsh Cabinet is a native speaker of #Cymraeg, so the Cabinet meetings will be held in their native lsnguage.
Imposing the #EnglishLanguage was a key component of the imperial project of Britishness. But the tide has turned.
one for @GarethJonesTV
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@2legged I went to school in Chester, just over the border, and many of our teachers, including the Head, were native Welsh speakers. They'd habitually use Welsh to discuss things in front of students that they wanted to keep private. It felt a little odd, faint sense of paranoia they were talking about *you* specifically.
The Westminster Government may get to know that feeling
(And if history replays itself, have to fight through a fug of pipe-smoke to talk to the Welsh FM
)@_thegeoff i love
️ that thought of English ministers skulking around bewildered! 
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I am staggered by the sheer hugeness of this.
The #WelshGovernment has a policy of bilingualism. All meetings include translators, so that speakers of English or Welsh can participate equally. But every member of the Welsh Cabinet is a native speaker of #Cymraeg, so the Cabinet meetings will be held in their native lsnguage.
Imposing the #EnglishLanguage was a key component of the imperial project of Britishness. But the tide has turned.
@2legged This is bloody wonderful!
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@2legged This is bloody wonderful!
️@greenpete It really brought joy to my day!
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@2legged @HarriettMB I'm pretty sure that Ireland is the only EU country that doesn't ask to have documents translated into it's native language
@ianturton @2legged @HarriettMB
Luxembourgish isn't an official EU language either.
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I am staggered by the sheer hugeness of this.
The #WelshGovernment has a policy of bilingualism. All meetings include translators, so that speakers of English or Welsh can participate equally. But every member of the Welsh Cabinet is a native speaker of #Cymraeg, so the Cabinet meetings will be held in their native lsnguage.
Imposing the #EnglishLanguage was a key component of the imperial project of Britishness. But the tide has turned.
@2legged
I'm an Englishman* who has lived in Wales for 26 years. My Cymraeg is minimal but I absolutely welcome this!
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I am staggered by the sheer hugeness of this.
The #WelshGovernment has a policy of bilingualism. All meetings include translators, so that speakers of English or Welsh can participate equally. But every member of the Welsh Cabinet is a native speaker of #Cymraeg, so the Cabinet meetings will be held in their native lsnguage.
Imposing the #EnglishLanguage was a key component of the imperial project of Britishness. But the tide has turned.
@2legged
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I am staggered by the sheer hugeness of this.
The #WelshGovernment has a policy of bilingualism. All meetings include translators, so that speakers of English or Welsh can participate equally. But every member of the Welsh Cabinet is a native speaker of #Cymraeg, so the Cabinet meetings will be held in their native lsnguage.
Imposing the #EnglishLanguage was a key component of the imperial project of Britishness. But the tide has turned.
Yn anffodus, dydw i ddim yn siarad Cymraeg.
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Yn anffodus, dydw i ddim yn siarad Cymraeg.
@sibrosan Nac ydw i.
Ond nid yw hynny'n fy atal rhag caru'r Gymraeg.
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The Lord Moylan is not happy about this. The Tory bankster from Kensington is shocked that a bunch of Welsh speakers in Wales, comprising the #WelshGovernment, speak in their shared native language!
Couldn't they at least speak English, out of deference to some posh twat in London who likes to control the celts?
@2legged An actual lord actually saying “so much for the tolerant left” in response to an anti-colonialist action is so on the nose you couldn’t make it up if you tried.
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@2legged An actual lord actually saying “so much for the tolerant left” in response to an anti-colonialist action is so on the nose you couldn’t make it up if you tried.
@WhiteCatTamer Yes, it's perfect!
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@sibrosan Nac ydw i.
Ond nid yw hynny'n fy atal rhag caru'r Gymraeg.
Rhaid i chi osod iaith eich neges i'r Gymraeg os ydych chi eisiau i ddarllenwyr allu defnyddio swyddogaeth gyfieithu Mastodon.
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B bogwitch@social.data.coop shared this topic
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I am staggered by the sheer hugeness of this.
The #WelshGovernment has a policy of bilingualism. All meetings include translators, so that speakers of English or Welsh can participate equally. But every member of the Welsh Cabinet is a native speaker of #Cymraeg, so the Cabinet meetings will be held in their native lsnguage.
Imposing the #EnglishLanguage was a key component of the imperial project of Britishness. But the tide has turned.
@2legged that's beautiful,
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I am staggered by the sheer hugeness of this.
The #WelshGovernment has a policy of bilingualism. All meetings include translators, so that speakers of English or Welsh can participate equally. But every member of the Welsh Cabinet is a native speaker of #Cymraeg, so the Cabinet meetings will be held in their native lsnguage.
Imposing the #EnglishLanguage was a key component of the imperial project of Britishness. But the tide has turned.
@2legged When you study British history, it's both amazing how many languages were spoken here and terrible how many globally we've killed off (or tried to). It's shameful.
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Rhaid i chi osod iaith eich neges i'r Gymraeg os ydych chi eisiau i ddarllenwyr allu defnyddio swyddogaeth gyfieithu Mastodon.
@sibrosan My app doesn't seem to let me do that
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I am staggered by the sheer hugeness of this.
The #WelshGovernment has a policy of bilingualism. All meetings include translators, so that speakers of English or Welsh can participate equally. But every member of the Welsh Cabinet is a native speaker of #Cymraeg, so the Cabinet meetings will be held in their native lsnguage.
Imposing the #EnglishLanguage was a key component of the imperial project of Britishness. But the tide has turned.
@2legged Bonus points for "indigenous language of Britain" there!
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I am staggered by the sheer hugeness of this.
The #WelshGovernment has a policy of bilingualism. All meetings include translators, so that speakers of English or Welsh can participate equally. But every member of the Welsh Cabinet is a native speaker of #Cymraeg, so the Cabinet meetings will be held in their native lsnguage.
Imposing the #EnglishLanguage was a key component of the imperial project of Britishness. But the tide has turned.
@2legged And this is better why?
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@sibrosan My app doesn't seem to let me do that
Mae hynny'n drueni.
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@ianturton @2legged @HarriettMB
Luxembourgish isn't an official EU language either.
@guenther @2legged @HarriettMB but doesn't everyone in Luxembourg learn French, German and Luxembourgish at school (and in my experience very good English too)?
