Gareth Roberts
@garicgymro
Welsh linguist in Philadelphia. I grow languages in the lab. Opinions my own. He. Ieithydd o Gymro yn Philadelphia. Tyfaf ieithoedd yn y lab. Barnau fy hun. Fo.
Interesting example of "proceeds" being used transitively to mean "follows" (i.e., as the opposite of "precedes"). I've seen this a few times from students but this might be the first time I've seen it in an edited publication.
The film also provides insight into what English and American people in the 1930s imagined a Welsh person might look like
Tonight's #FirstTimeFilm: The Old Dark House. A film about travellers caught in a storm in the Welsh mountains who seek refuge in an old house, whose owners, horrifyingly, turn out to be English.
Today's #FirstTimeFilm: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Watching it so you don't have to.
I know Claire and her work! Not what I had in mind in this post though. I know that people have done work on Gaelic phonology and written about it. What I'm looking for is specifically a Gaelic equivalent of this.
Tonight's #FirstTimeFilm: Army of Darkness. Happy birthday, America! 🇺🇸🎆🎇🇺🇸
Tonight's #BoardGame: Spirit Island. Tonight Lure of the Deep Wilderness and Many Minds Move as One defeated the Russian Tsardom
A good fact: The average population density of Vatican City is 2,205/km². Since the area of Vatican City is 0.49km², the average Pope density is 2.
Unpopular opinion: The biggest wrong turn in computing history was the discontinuation of Microsoft Bob.
Actually it's had people in it since before it was an island... Which wasn't really all that long ago at all... 13/
"Always" pops up in other ways too. There's a good book by Tim Clarkson called The Picts: A History. I recommend it as a well-written popular history that strips the Picts of all the silly mysticism that's been thrown at them. But it does contain an annoying "always". 7/
Or take Royal coronations. Sure, British monarchs have been crowned for centuries, but a lot of the modern pomp and circumstance was created in the twentieth century to look deliberately old. 5/
It turns out that when you scratch a bit at the historical surface, a lot of traditions and conventions are surprisingly recent. Clan tartans are a well-known example: mostly a 19th-century invention. 4/