I am torn, should I be proud because Cymru is the home of my Ancestors, or complain because someone is making a joke about the native language f my Ancestors?
�� Exactly. Welsh looks so strange if you didn't grow up with it. My husband is German and he has great fun trying to guess how to pronounce town names whenever we visit my family there. I love in turn teasing him about his family's lovely Saxon dialect. �� Was war das? Du brauchst ein "Dashendög" (Taschentuch).
Hiraeth has a perfect translation in Brazilian, "saudade", a word with that exact meaning that is often mentioned as being untranslatable to other languages :-)
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ReplyDeleteHaha loved this one! XD
ReplyDeleteBut how do you pronounce that?
ReplyDeleteFor tongue-security reasons: I don't.
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The fact that this actually sounds like the only logical explanation scares me a little... XD
ReplyDeleteI am torn, should I be proud because Cymru is the home of my Ancestors, or complain because someone is making a joke about the native language f my Ancestors?
ReplyDeleteYou should laugh because it's funny!
Delete�� Exactly. Welsh looks so strange if you didn't grow up with it. My husband is German and he has great fun trying to guess how to pronounce town names whenever we visit my family there. I love in turn teasing him about his family's lovely Saxon dialect. �� Was war das? Du brauchst ein "Dashendög" (Taschentuch).
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ReplyDeleteThe beauty of the Welsh language.
Lol, there are names like that in every country.
ReplyDeleteSeems legit.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in Cwmystwyth!!
ReplyDeleteHiraeth has a perfect translation in Brazilian, "saudade", a word with that exact meaning that is often mentioned as being untranslatable to other languages :-)
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