• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    dead language

    If people learn it, and people use it, it is by definition not a dead language.

    This is some colonialist BS.

    • User_4272894@lemmy.world
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      Also, over half a million Welsh speakers exist in Wales, accounting for roughly 20% of the population. It’s hardly dead.

    • vsg@lemmy.world
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      Also, isn’t Welsh the Celtic language with the most native speakers?

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      Well Latin is a dead language, people do learn and use it. But there is no new words, or evolution of the language.

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      It’s also not a dead language by any stretch of the imagination. Even latin isn’t technically a dead language since it is still used.

      Imperialists calling something dead is often just wishful thinking.

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      “Just seen”

      “Just saw” is accepted shorthand for “I/we just saw…” “I have seen…” is acceptable if you’re saying that you’ve watched a movie 27 times.

      Even substituting in “I just have seen” in the OP doesn’t make grammatical sense to me.

      The guy should probably worry more about his own English than other people’s Welsh.

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    Proposal:

    Force the English to learn Welsh and rename the English language to American

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      🇬🇧 English (Traditional)

      🇺🇲 English (Simplified)

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    What an idiot this guy must be… Did it cross his mind that Welsh people are also tax payers? …

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    It’s always the chucklefuck who only speaks one language that wants to abolish “dead” languages.

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      Makes you wonder how many Canadian users are here complaining while also complaining about our language protection, right?