h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You may not have noticed, but Newcastle Emlyn is in Wales. Welsh is spoken in Wales, so it's not a case of "stubborness" when you come across someone speaking Welsh, it's a perfectly natural thing to do. Would you bemoan the fact that French people speak French in France? Most English people who live in Wales seem amazed and affronted at the temerity of the natives for speaking their native language. Get a life!!!

Sorry if I offended you. What I meant was that, if an English-speaker visits Wales, he will not find himself completely unable to communicate as most (nearly all) Welsh people also speak English. You might speak to someone in Wales in English and the person might reply in Welsh out of stubbornness.

And I'm not sure what me having a life has to do with anything. Criticise an admittedly unnecessary and potentially troublesome sentence in my entry if you will, but there's not need to get personal.

I would certainly not be amazed if someone spoke Welsh to me. I have lived here all my life (I suppose that makes me Welsh but I don't really care) and, coming from an English family, have tried my best to learn the lingo, though it doesn't come naturally to me. It fascinates me as a language, and I have learned enough to explain in semi-accurate Welsh my lack of Welsh skills.

I've had the sentence edited so its meaning is clearer and it has less potential to cause offence.

I think by now you should reconsider the entry regarding the Bunch of Grapes too! lol...Have you been in the place recently? Broken windows greasy floors, cobwebs on the beer pumps, rowdy youngsters, drug taking and dealing, having to wait for ten minutes to get served even when you are only person at the bar.

Hi there Joe. Have you seen the change I made to the sentence? Is it better? I honestly wanted to cause no offence - 'twas just a bit of frivolity. I went to the Bunch not long ago actually - I admit it has gone down a bit in my estimation but it's still a nice haunt. It has a certain charm to it, even though it's not technically that nice .

Hi sorry for huge gap in replying, but been offline for months and months..the sentence reads a bit better, but it's still offensive.

The main reason why there's so much variety in the fluency of local people's Welsh is due to the fact that incomers are having an adverse affect on the language.

It's inevitable I know, but that doesn't stop people being cheesed off when incomers deride out language, our morals, our culture and try and enforce theirs.

For instance I find it hilarious when in some of the pubs in Emlyn, you hear racist bigotry about various ethnic minorities coming here and stealing our jobs...these views are quite often expressed by English incomers who don't see the massive irony, when in fact they've been doing it to the Welsh for centuries!