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Bulb smart meters in England wake up from comas miraculously speaking fluent Welsh

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Quebec is not the only one

Toronto has a thriving and intolerant Welsh community. I worked with a chap from Toronto who decided that, while he was working in Wales, he might as well visit that part of his family who decided not to leave for foreign shores a couple of hundred years ago, but to stay in Cardiganshire. He spent the entire time berating them for their poor welsh language skills and their unforgivable use of english and welsh colloquialisms in everyday conversation.

This is similar to the behaviour of the Welsh activists in Wales - especially the ones who learned Welsh as some sort of life affirming exercise (I also worked with a guy called Keith Henderson who, within a year of learning Welsh, changed his name to Cith Ap Henri and thereafter refused to speak in English except under protest). They see the Welsh language as an ideology, rather than a method of communication, and are as vehemently critical of "normal" Welsh speakers as they are about the "Saesneg".

Hence the months long debate rsulting in an "official" Welsh term for the Space Shuttle coming out as "Moon Swallow", while everyday Welsh speakers simply called it "Y Shuttle"

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