Dr. Bethan Tovey-Walsh

@LinguaCelta

Code-switcher, code-writer, all-round code-botherer. Linguist (CY/EN). Likes DH, NLP, XML, Python, xenolinguistics, crosswords. 🏳️‍🌈

Abertawe, Cymru
Vrijeme pridruživanja: rujan 2016.

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    Pinning this now, because it’s the best thread I’ve ever started, and I essentially want to invite new responses forever.

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    Remembering how a 'progressive' left-leaning TV journalist in London laughed hysterically when he realised that I spoke Welsh and Swedish. Of all the languages to have learned, he said, how hilarious that I'd acquired such pointless ones. This attitude alive and kicking, I see.

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    BTW the rewards of learning a not-widely-spoken language are absolutely enormous. Walk into a bar in Lithuania and speak Lithuanian. Chat with a Georgian taxi driver in Georgian. The world becomes a very different place.

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    I paid thousands of dollars & flew to the UK to give a petty conference paper for 15 minutes. My talk was too long. I started paraphrasing. Then I dead ass fainted, flat on my face in front of 60 people. I was the youngest one there & an actual war veteran carried me to a doctor.

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  5. It was weird back then. If you lived in a small town, it was hard to get books. If you wanted to learn a language, you ended up with old books from charity shops, and so you’d be learning like Victorian-era Greek, or 1920s Italian or whatever.

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    Since people are super worried about whether white Americans are even allowed to write about Mexico, here is a thread about white Americans and Brits who wrote amazing books about Mexico admired by Mexicans. So if you want to begin with white writers to learn about Mexico, read:

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    How typically British thing to insinuate that it’s “low reward” to speak smaller languages because they are not worldwide like English. It’s also just an excuse for many British people to go abroad and just expect to be spoken in English to🙄. “I’ll have a uno baguette please”

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    I speak Gaelic (~50k speakers) and Spanish (~500 million speakers), both pretty fluently, but I use Gaelic far, far more in my daily life. It's advanced my career and life in ways Spanish hasn't and couldn't.

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    I live in Scotland, and speak Welsh with my children. We read Welsh books, listen to Welsh music and watch Welsh tv. My Scottish husband has learnt Welsh. My heart soars when my children speak Welsh with me - the effort is definitely not low-reward.

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    Why do monoglot English speakers always try to 'rank' languages by how much economic opportunity it might give them?

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    Just look what it means to some people, Americans, just learning Welsh cos they wanted to understand Super Furries songs https://t.co/rWexyrcLYm

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    I wrote a book last year, and one of the chapters was about Welsh, the language I spoke at home and was educated in. Anyway. I’ve been told that this paragraph resonated with people

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    By definition issues to do with minorities are a ‘lot of effort’. The ‘low reward’ conclusion depends on your political bent, with those who appreciate diversity seeing this as very high reward.

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    I was once grilled as a grad student by another—very left-wing—student I'd just met about whether Welsh was "a luxury". I've also been reminded that people matter, not languages. There's a strange blind spot on the left about the importance of languages to people.

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    Hey - I notice that you're happy to extoll the virtues of Wales when you're covering places to go on holiday, but we don't exist just as a bolt hole to escape to every once in a while. We have a living, breathing culture, and a language that you belittle sneeringly.

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    An older woman came into the bookstore today. I made a joke about a credit card reader issue and she said "these things are all programmed by twenty-five-year-old boys who don't comment their code" and somehow we ended up having a great conversation about programming and biases.

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    Before he made Castle in the Sky, Miyazaki was in Wales, supporting the miner's strike. He based the landscapes in this film of the Welsh villages & tried to reflect the strength he saw in their communities So, arguably the best Welsh film ever made

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    What’s the opposite of nominative determinism?

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    Can any (developmental?) linguistics person tell me why small children use ‘my’ as the first person nominative? ‘My did it myself’ is a particularly good one. ??

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    This reminds me of my fave Frege quotation: “Wahrsein ist etwas anderes als Füwahrgehaltenwerden” (being true is quite different from being considered true). Is being perceived as good totally separate from being good? Is there any relationship between the two?

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