How to write a birthday card in Welsh

Nexy

Nexy

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I'm ashamed to admit I don't know "To" and "From" in Welsh in the context of a birthday card. My Welsh teacher was awesome and dragged me kicking and screaming through my GCSE Welsh (Full) course but I'll be damned if I can remember anything useful. Can someone help me out please?

To Danny,

(Pob dymuniad da
Am
Benblwydd Hapus iawn)

From Nexy

He's 14 and we're family friends, so nothing formal needed. I bought a Welsh birthday card so the main bit is already in Welsh. :)
 
"I was going to write this in Welsh but decided not to, it's bad enough we live here without having to remind ourselves on this special occasion. Love Nexy".
 
According to google,

to = i
from = o

wtf? did the Welsh invent binary? :p

Brian8bit said:
"I was going to write this in Welsh but decided not to, it's bad enough we live here without having to remind ourselves on this special occasion. Love Nexy".
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"Yr oeddwn yn mynd i ysgrifennu hyn yn y Gymraeg ond penderfynodd beidio, mae'n ddigon drwg yr ydym yn byw yma heb orfod atgoffa'n hunain ar yr achlysur arbennig. Love Nexy". :D
 
Just write it in the first language of Wales ie English, at least then you will have done your bit to stop the terrible tragedy that is the forcing of the Welsh language on it's citizens with no thought of the costs and implications.
 
The boy in question is fluent (despite coming from an area that doesn't really speak Welsh natively.) He loves the language and I'd like to show my support. My C in GCSE Welsh was the lowest from all my GCSE grades but the one I had to work hardest for and the one I was most proud of. I'm ashamed that I'm better at speaking French (GCSE A grade) than Welsh, it's purely because I found the language really difficult. I keep meaning to pick it back up but I'm full of good intentions... :(
 
a1ex2001 said:
Just write it in the first language of Wales ie English, at least then you will have done your bit to stop the terrible tragedy that is the forcing of the Welsh language on it's citizens with no thought of the costs and implications.
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From now on I'm quoting you and translating your posts in to Welsh until you apologise :p
 
EVH said:
From now on I'm quoting you and translating your posts in to Welsh until you apologise :p
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I won't appologise, I lived in Wales for 18 years and my parents still do. What I have said is a statment of fact, the Welsh assembly is using it's powers to force first the survival and now the adoption of the language and it is having a detrimental effect on the Welsh economy and the Welsh people.
 
a1ex2001 said:
I won't appologise, I lived in Wales for 18 years and my parents still do. What I have said is a statment of fact, the Welsh assembly is using it's powers to force first the survival and now the adoption of the language and it is having a detrimental effect on the Welsh economy and the Welsh people.
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How does it have a detrimental effect on the economy?

I went to a Welsh school and will send my children to one. To be honest I think it's good that they're (the welsh assembly) doing what they can to preserve the national language. At the moment it's a core language subject in most schools. Not exactly a punishment?


Fel gaiff a detrimental effeithia acha 'r chynildeb? Awn at Cymraeg hysgol a ewyllysia anfon 'm blant at hun. At bod 'n onest Dybia 'i s da a hwy re ( 'r Cymraeg chyman ) yn gwneud beth allan at cadw 'r 'n genedlaethol dafodiaith. Am 'r amrantun 'i s berfedd dafodiaith darostwng i mewn odiaeth hysgolion. Mo 'n ddichlyn benyd?
 
Brian8bit said:
"I was going to write this in Welsh but decided not to, it's bad enough we live here without having to remind ourselves on this special occasion."
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Sweet irony. :p
 
EVH said:
How does it have a detrimental effect on the economy?
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The current legislation going through is placing to much of an administrative burden onto companies, forcing them to work in both languages and a company of any real size needs too work in English as the Welsh market alone is not big enough to sustain them. There is a marked decline in new investment both in manufacturing and call centres because it is cheaper and easier for a company to work elsewhere. There are also hundreds of crazy facts like the NHS in wales spent enough money to build a new specialist Childrens Hospital (Which they currently don't have) on totally unnecessary dual language signs. The list go's on and on and gets worse every year with new loegislation comming out of the self serving assembly, Wales is to small economically to survive in isolation so forcing the use of an archaic language that 20 years ago was well on the way to dieing out cannot be seen as forward thinking. It is not the national language of Wales and hasn't been for over a 100 years, preserving things at the expense of progress and prosperity is not forward thinking. Oh and don't get me started on S4C the most expensive TV chanel in the world if costs are divided per viewer.

EVH said:
I went to a Welsh school and will send my children to one. To be honest I think it's good that they're (the welsh assembly) doing what they can to preserve the national language. At the moment it's a core language subject in most schools. Not exactly a punishment?
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It is a punishment when that slot in the timetable could be taken up by learning something that might benefit them in the long term, say Chinese?
 
Deep said:
Insert random letters and then you have Welsh ;)
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Dunno like. Bet the pesky Russians and Chinese cant figure it out, I've seen it once or twice in Telford on the trains service but bugger me do I know what it says. :D

All government agencies should adopt welsh as a cipher. We'ld never have to worry again about information falling into the wrong hands or being lost. :cool:
 
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