Comments by "Kathy Bramley" (@kathybramley5609) on "RobWords" channel.

  1.  @gamechip06  Toxic? What is toxic about this discussion? I see jocular precision, playfully robust attention to detail but no real animosity of nastiness. I fear you just don't get it, missed the vibe.
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  2. Calling England saxon land would have been weird because... And some rowdy Breton biscuits start shouting and singing.
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  3. I know about the Breton-Welsh link having lived in Aberystwyth for a while as a student. My favourite nerdy fact about the smaller islands is that Hans and Thomas the Tank Engine come from the same place, sort of. Please correct me, but I think this was part of the history for a while. The Southern Isles (Sodor - except not a d but a th sound like in Icelandic Dadi Freyr's name) was once the Norwegian name for the Hebrides and Mann, and the state and church authorities here took over, the church diocese of Sodor and Mann just transliterated without the special character or that pronunciation. And that ended up inspiring Rev Awdry.
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  4. The leap from music to the modern sense of dream doesn't seem that big. Transportation.
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  5. You didn't mention the Welsh 'dd' th-sound which is a thorn sort of sound - but you were more on it than I gave you credit for in the last video I commented on. But you've got a good Scots reference! Kudos for mentioning Dadi Freyr!
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  6. ​ @huskydogable 🤔
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  7.  @gamechip06  but if you mean the people getting annoyed about interdisciplinary nerds being interdisciplinary nerds, I don't know. They should go watch football or something. In the words of the Doctor "this planet is defended!" 😜
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  8. Very cool. Very glad you tackled that.
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  9. Ah but what is power!? Chaotic is better than top down. The class system is probably the reason we don't have reforms because there's necessary defensive attitudes in different centres of power.
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  10. Also Germany's history and our history with France and Germany haven't helped: we don't want to be like that.
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  11. America neither.
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  12. You're proving yourself wrong in the first sentences by describing the meaning of your examples with sentences!
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  13. I actually got dog. I don't know if it was random or if I pulled it from the back of my brain from somewhere.
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  14. My friend's surname is Howerska from her Polish side of the family.
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  15. The economic reasons of lost investment will probably prevent it, and what about Scrabble!?
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  16. Thank-you for this, genuinely, but some notes: I see sistren used in black culture - I'm not sure if it's hip hop, AAVE, or in Caribbean culture (maybe Jamaican or more specifically Rasta) or maybe in African English varieties but I have the impression it's used particularly in the blend of artistic, religious & political rhetoric, in elevated speech. I'm afraid I was also dissatisfied to see you not mention the wider language complexities of these islands. I'm not a language expert but I've picked up that both Irish and Welsh and have a f-v thing going on (maybe in Scots/Gaelic too, I don't know). Like in the Welsh afon for river which we also see in English place-names and river names as Avon. A quick google to help me with spellings but that's from the wider distributed Brythonic languages, common Brittonic once widely spoken. And as in the Irish name Aoife, which is not pronounced Eve or Eva or Ava, or even effa or oi-va, not properly. The vowels and consonant are a bit more liminal comparatively from English-trained ears. I gathered this much from a novel I read recently. That alternative linguistic heritage interacts with English and is sometimes a flashpoint in battles around forced Anglicisation and pressures. I also gathered that much since I went to (and failed) university in Aberystwyth! Explanatory Personal Background (very optional reading): I was studying countryside management which is a big topic that called for a more well rounded & resilient breadth of skills & stamina than I possessed as an anxious undiagnosed autistic. We only touched on it in class but cymraeg and the politics of the language was a big topic of conversation in general and everywhere around you. I found the language & the politics fascinating and important didn't get much beyond learning the alphabet, numbers, some basic vocabulary and that there was such things as mutations. And about the history of Aberystwyth which means mouth of the sinuous maybe literally and in the playful minds of the local elite when it stopped being called fortified Llanbadarn - Llanbadarn, the church of Padarn was an important celtic Clas church & monastery targeted by the Normans. Of course it is generally taken to mean mouth of the River Ystwyth, but that river whilst nearby is not the closest to the castle and town centre.
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  17. But that is a personal theory. Maybe too personal.
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  18. Soft consonants and all that! Wink-wink! Like the wet hissing sound in ll - double L. Sometimes approximated with a cluh sound. And dd - double D is the softer end of th - 'think' more than 'that' - it's fascinating. (Vowels can be pretty interesting too: Y and W are vowels and Y changes depending on position in the word, uh near the beginning and ih (short ee, i) near the end though unlike English where a final ee sound is usually a 'y' - in Welsh it seems it's usually it's u or au. It's either an aye sound in the North Wellian or ee sound in the south, I think. W is an uh or oo sound but 'with' in English is about the same as -wyth. Ystwyth - Ust-with. Ynyslas - un-is-las. Tacsi is welsh for taxi, bonus. This is an inexpert taster but people should start with Welsh speakers or other proper resources if interested!)
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  19. Roses are red, violets are blue: singular they is older than singular you. Denis Baron.
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