Steve Dyson a ddywedodd:"Let's ABOLISH the Welsh Language Act 1993 (diddymu, if you like)
By Steve Dyson on June 6, 2008 12:57 PM | Permalink
If I was editor of a newspaper in Wales, I would launch a campaign to ABOLISH the Welsh Language Act 1993. Diddymu!!
Why? Because it's bloomin' annoying to be in Cardiff's main railway station trying to find one's journey home only to be faced with a screen continuously flashing from English to Cymraeg (that's Welsh for Welsh, by the way).
Don't misunderstand me... I've nothing against Welsh folk who want to sing, chat and dance in the Welsh tongue in private, nor against weird academic qualifications in the subject, (if anyone can work out what use that could be!).
But this nonsensical Act makes it obligatory for every sign, announcement and notice that is deemed to be governmental or of 'public service' to be printed in both English and Cymraeg. Why? Madness, if you ask me.
"Preservation," some will hark. "If we don't insist on such codification of the language then it will die." Others may cruelly answer: "So what?".
Not me. I can see the sense in some codification. The odd road-sign, for instance. Or even the occasional 'dyn' on the door of the gents' toilet for those in a desperate hurry.
But why confuse rail passengers with every flaming destination on a changing railway board in both English and Cymraeg? Do you really think that will attract tourists? Annoy and frustrate them, more like.
I mean, we all love cute places like Cornwall, and some even profess to say Scotland is an OK place for views. But we don't insist on south coastal and tartan versions of Gaelic appearing on every beach or kilt, do we?
Come on South Wales Echo, The Western Mail and Wales on Sunday! Let's campaign for the right to use our common sense and a measure of reason in our use of this daft language, not shove it down everyone's throats!"
Dyma'r ddolen. Rydych yn gallu gadael sylwadau ar waelod y tudalen os dech isio....
Wrthi'n chwilio am ei ebost hefyd.
