aber peeps!

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 12:57 am

Why is it that every polo west of newtown all the way to "aberrustwif" is RED RED RED?

saw a couple nice ones though whilst out there, they anybodys?

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 8:51 pm

I know how to spell it dude

Just I went to my bro's graduation at aber uni (which is why i spotted all the cars - was in passenger seat of mum's rover*) and during all the welsh language bits, that's exactly how it was pronounced.

Strangely thats the first time ive heard anyone, including another welsh native, pronounce it "rustwif" (which i assume is the achingly proper way to do it) rather than the english-style "say what you see" approach (wrist-with).

* cut a long story short, I AM NEVER EVER EVER EVER DOING THAT AGAIN. I shall take the train solo (and naked) if it should come to it. One word summary: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhggh!!!
If you were driving on the A470 / A44 / A438 etc roads tween Aber and Shrews on monday 11th or tuesday 12th and got cut up / held up by a silver 25, I can only offer my apologies, but I was biting my tongue almost hard enough to amputate it. Only screamed three times (and got uber-nagged for each one).

Especially if you were the person happily minding their own business in a purple focus til you had to leap on the brakes to avoid T-boning us (read: me & nan - our driver would have survived without a scratch) during a frankly moronic right-turn maneouvre. I also apologise to the environment (and the car!) for the way we didn't leave third gear for about forty miles at 35-50mph....

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 9:18 pm

i really wouldn't have a clue! i've had people explain welsh pronunciation to me umpteen times and i've got the basic gist (ll = ckkl sound, f = v, ff = f, dd = thv, y = u, i = u, u = i, g = c, etc) and can even approximate a northwest accent when drunk, but totally lost on the fine details or doing it anywhere near properly.

i can just about manage a half hearted "ffriddoedd" from time to time

(frithvoithv.... ish? usually slurred to "frith!" as in Chapel-en-le) --- and thats because it was the hall of residence on-site bar!
(technically speaking the name of that, the halls site itself, and the road running past it, but o'course we didn't care for owt but the booze)

(i certainly understand what you mean about explaining, yes!)

Us english folks ancestry sure did yours up the jacksy when mis-applying the old runic letters to the english alphabet to try and kill the language off. It's pretty damn cool that the ancient welsheners

stuck stubbornly to using the new abberation rather than letting the tongue die.

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 6:13 pm

oooooh bitter rivalry flaring!

eh cont! the 'narvon scallies are coming..... run away!

(pffff naah..

i couldnt start a fight like that, not when you've got the funcentre - i wanna go back there someday)

mostly speaking english because its 1/3rd "natives" (unknown number being english/foreign expats anyway), 1/2lf english students, 1/6th foreign students (american, german, japanese...) who of course didn't know the language existed until they were three hours off the plane at heathrow and crossed the border...

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 6:31 pm

various random times when .... ahum .... i was studenting at bangor

some of those german, yank, and japanese girls were tasty... too bad they couldnt understand english in a brummy accent, and my vocab in all three dialects soon ran dry.... anata wa namae ka / was nahmen du? / howdy wass y'all known by? doesn't go as far as you think even in Time / Octagon when your bacardi breezer budget is tight

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 7:00 pm

if i get the chance, yeah