I'm going to cobble together a Welsh version of this excellent and horribly accurate cartoon ... the picture-y bit will be hard but the Welsh bit's a doddle ... in the meantime you've got this.... Last time we saw the young Dave Datblygu ..here's the older and seen-a-bit-of-life version on Gwobrau'r Selar .... even Terrificer For Your Welsh .... If you're a long-term reader of this blog, you'll have seen this before ... but it's a fine song and a very apt video to go with it .... and if you haven't seen it before,prepare to be impressed by the high production values and sheer opportunism involved.
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Crumbs ! Briwsion ! Dyma David Datblygu yn siarad mewn 1984 !! Terrific For Your Welsh ... .... and here he is, still in the freshness of youth, with the excellent "Bloneg Meddyliau" ... take it away Dave ... Yes, I know it's been on here before, but like it.
Here's some Welsh for you to read, and then you can listen to what it was all about on this ancient edition of Y Dydd ..... I know that people always bang on about how many Welsh speakers claim they can't understand a lot of the Welsh news, even little me can follow most of this ..... Darn wedi ei olygu o'r rhaglen newyddion 'Y Dydd' ddarlledwyd ar 17/09/1980, sydd yn nodi datganiad gan y Llywodraeth eu bod nhw bellach o blaid sefydlu sianel deledu iaith Gymraeg. Roedd yr ymgyrch o blaid sianel iaith Gymraeg wedi bod yn mynd ers dros ddeg mlynedd, ond nid pawb oedd yn cytuno a'r syniad. Roedd rhai am i'r Gymraeg aros ar sianeli BBC ac ITV. Yn y darn mae Gwynfor Evans o Plaid Cymru, oedd wedi bygwth ymprydio i farwolaeth er mwyn cael sianel Gymraeg, a'r addysgwr Jac L Williams yn mynegi dwy safbwynt wahanol iawn. ..and here's the wizard-fingered Chris Jones with " Curo'r Gwydr Glas" We all know about "go-" ... go iawn, go-bryn, go lew, go dda .... it makes things a bit less, "rather" or "quite" rather than the full-on version. a sort of diminutive qualifier. Well, the other day I was looking through the g- section* of the dictionary when it dawned on me that quite a few of the go- words ...complete words starting with "go " were doing the same thing. I got a whole collection of them, some rather neat, some clever, some a bit sad ... go-drist I suppose. Here's some of them, you can find more for yourself. Here we go .... gofas somewhat coarse godywyll somewhat dark goferwl to parboil ( not quite boiling) golwybr a slight trace gofyddin ah ... it's a "small army." Pippin Fort stuff gogamp even sadder ... an inferior feat ... I expect it was the small army that did it. gogelog cautious, wary (celu=to hide)(Kelloggs Corn "flakes")(flaky") (?) gogoch reddish, rather red ( I'm sure I've seen that somewhere before) gogil to wane, decline (cil ... back, recess) gofardd a poetaster ... a poet who is not actually any good, a "would-be" poet. gogrisbin somewhat dry ( like crisps)(crisbin = dry, withered) goser a lovely one this .... "less than a star" .. it means an asteroid. goarfoel somewhat bald gobant a dell, a dingle .. not quite up to ( or down to) proper valley status. goben penultimate ( which this is) gochelffordd by-way * Don't confuse g-section with c-section by the way, even though they are a tiny Soft Mutation apart, they mean entirely different things. Well, that was exciting ... cyffrous ... well, gogyffrous ... wasn't it .... and here, to continue the general feeling of gosyndod for this world of words, here's Gruff Rhys with " Rhagluniaeth Ysgafn" .... I couldn't help wondering if go-go dancing was some sort of inferior type of prancing around. I was going to put a picture of a go-go dancer on here to liven things up a bit but they were all a bit, er, full-on. Instead we have this next picture ...surely in this universe of ours full of goseren and gofeirdd there must be a reason for its appearance .....
Yes readers, it's more of those words-that-look-like-what-they-mean ... It's a simple and enjoyable way to doodle away a few minutes in between doing real things like, er, can't think of anything right now. I've done quite a few of them in the past which you can find by clicking on these lovely links .... drawing-silly-pictures-of-welsh-words.html welsh-word-play-537-oriog-had-tyrru-nod-cemeg-ac-ati.html cyllell-and-a-tour-de-france-anomaly.html -anghyflaw.html And now, after all that, this ... a bit of an oddity here, it's Mary Hopkin singing the Welsh version of " Something Stupid" ..... Here's another interesting Scrabble variant ... what is going on here ? This particular version of Scrabble has some quirky features .... for a start, you can get some lovely patterns with it ...though this particular game hasn't brought up any yet. Also, it can grind to a halt after the first two plays if you don't watch out .... I'll show you how a bit later. When we first started playing it in the spring ( in English, of course) we came to the conclusion that a game like that one up there would never be able to reach the triple-word score squares. What do you think? I'm sure you have seen the obvious and realised what the special rule for this type of game is ... you can only have 3-letter words on the board. You can try all sorts of sub-versions ... 2 letters only is a bit weird (!) 4-letters is OK, we found that anything above that is tricky. One good version is to allow only 3,5,7,9 .. odd- numbered letter words like toc, sownd or cwynfan. Or only even ones like ac, tlws and modryb. That works fine. But let's see what happened later on in this particular game ..... Well, for a start, you can get to the triple-word squares, but in actual play it tends not to happen too often. Now, what about that " blocking start" I mentioned .... it happens like this ... C P A M M If you start with two crossed words like those, the next player can't go anywhere without making a 2-letter word or worse .... for example ... C P A M M A N Besides his chosen word, MAN, he's incidentally made MA as well. Not allowed. In general though, the 3-letter game flows along pretty well and certainly encourages you to swot up on the dinky Welsh words. Now a few questions ... [a] What letters do the two blanks stand for ? [b] If you had CRAPTEM what would be your best play ? [c] Could you reach any of the other triple-word squares on this board ? Now we have Accu with " Adain Adain" ..... I have buried the answer to my " can you reach any of the other triple-word squares" question deep in the past depths of this blog ... here's how you can reach it .... a link....
hanner-wedi-marw.html Looking through an old ( 4 years ago) diary I found this list of 3-letter Welsh words ... whether I put it on "the blog that disappeared" I can't remember ..... but here it is now. I would imagine I made it to help me with Bananagrams/Scrabble .. or that number-plate game... or maybe just out of pure idleness... always a powerful driver of male behaviour. It's far from complete of course..... there could be thousands of the things for all I know. Tausendfach. Who knows, it might come in useful at some future time. ... with this rather random sort of blog, you never know. But now we have Pyroclastig with " diwethaf" .... at last ... Here's a strange and fine cover of GZM's Merched yn Neud Gwallt eu Gilydd Should you wish to sing along or make your own cover version, and who wouldn't , here's the words. .. Wel mae merched yn neud gwallt eu gilydd trwy'r nos Yn clywed y gan ond yn chwarae 'mlaen Mae merched yn neud gwallt eu gilydd trwy'r nos Dy croen fel y lloer 'neud fi teimlo'n oer There's no need to worry! Why's that Johnny? 'Cos we ain't got school in the morning baby no, no, no, no Ain't got school in the morning baby no, no, no, no Ain't got school in the morning Well you can try, try, try Baby cry, cry, cry But what you'll never know verse chorus chorus verse Next up , here's a cover of Ffa Coffi Pawb's Sega Segur ... seeemingly by half the population of Wales. ... couldn't find any words for this brilliant song ... Who are these people ? I'm sure you'll be able to work them out, even though I've had to take a few liberties and cut a few corners to make them .... Melinydd Gwyntog Chwaraeog Sbeis Iâ T Sinsir Sbeis Di-Trons Personiaid Coeth Sbeis Pig yn Malu Tunnell Llwchog Sbringmaes Baban Sbeis Di-Dillad Isaf Stwrsiwn Bach Botasen Why Awyrau Ofnog Sbeis Ewyllys Ifanc Edrych Wybren-Cerddwr Gwennol Traeth I've been jotting them down all afternoon as I've thought of them..... there must be loads more that can be done but I don't know enough famous people. I'm sure you will all be bombarding me with them .. well, I'm not sure really because although I keep asking my loyal readers ( Gladys and Arthur Tadpole of Wigan) to help me out/solve my problems etc it has only happened once. I'm convinced that 99.9% of the people who look at this blog have found it by mistake ..probably whilst looking for Wellingtons or Wallabies or Washing Powder or houses to buy in Wem or West Kirby or West Wittering or Well-Being Courses or Westlife or Wet Wipes or whatever. Anyway, if you do have some we could add to that lot you could put them in a comment ( see below) or you could send them to [email protected] I'm not holding my breath. Which is a good thing because I'm too old for any dangerous activities .... and anyway, here's Bryn Fon and " Abacus" ... maybe a few of you Welsh Pop Music fans might be able to guess why I've chosen this .... Here at LWi88Y towers the most popular variant of Scrabble is "Ten-point Animal." All it is, is that if your word is an animal, you get an extra 10 points. If it isn't an animal, you get, er, normal points. Apart from being educational and fun and educational, it also can help you salvage a few points when your letters are utter crap ... ape, id, ant, bat, asp,cat, fly, etc can be an absolute lifeline when you've got a rack full of rubbish letters. We've even flirted with the idea of making it 20-point animal but we're so used to having it tough up in't North that we haven't dared to just yet. Strangely, it doesn't work too well with flowers ... very few of them have short names. I wonder why. On holiday we do ten-point-holiday-words Scrabble ... drizzle, rain, lightning, caravan, wasp .. they all count. All in the thin language, unfortunately. Obviously, you're going to want to run off and try this straight away in your actual Welsh,so here to help you are some dinky do-able animals to get you started .... epa = ape asb =asp bele = pine marten carw = deer cath = cat ci = dog gafr = goat gele = leech gwadd = mole llew = lion mul = donkey boda = buzzard brân = crow cnut - knot ( a type of wading bird) ( because of Canute, who tried to hold back the tide), dryw= wren eos = nightingale eryr = eagle ( and shingles ... sounds about the same) nico = goldfinch pal = puffin titw = tit eog = salmon These words are useful in other contexts. When you are being mugged by a low-life git you can now shout "llew" whilst pointing into the distance. Then you can knock him out with your handy copy of Y Geiriadur Mawr. Who says Welsh isn't useful ? Also, if your shoelace has come undone and you're carrying a mul and can't do it yourself, and you unfortunately don't know the name for that sort of knot, you can just use"cnut" instead and hope that your potential knot-making-person is both Welsh and an ornithologist. Sorted. Also, if you were at the Zoo ( Sw) and spotted an asp attacking an ape , you'd be able to summon the right sort of help. Plus, if you wanted to buy a goldfish from a pet shop but had forgotten what they were called in Welsh, why not just point to the cage of goldfinches and say " bron nico" and the assistant would realise straight away what you wanted.Swimming motions might help. Enough of this silliness... let's have a look at an actual game exactly as it happened ... this time it's Rhys Mwyn in the left corner, and in the right corner 'tis Swci Boscawen. As you will see, some of the words are not animals, and some are animals. Some look like they might be animals, but they aren't. Ystrywog ! Plus, there's an "f" and an "n" and a "dd" which they left lying around at the bottom of the board. Here's how the game went .... see if you can trace through the game with your finger ...that's the easy bit ...and then see if you can work out which ones were the animals. RHYS MWYN SWCI BOSCAWEN ddoe cadno epa cacen carlwm cnut pa + arth arthes ( neat !) ffured ffurff eogau hebog cod dacw boda llinos rhewi haf mws sa + afal I've not shown you the scores yet, but I will do so at the end. The animal words make quite a difference. Meanwhile, here's the excellent Huw M with "Swn y galon fach yn torri" OK .. here's the scores ...
RHYS MWYN SWCI BOSCAWEN ddoe 6 cadno 19 epa 19 cacen 22 carlwm 24 cnut 30 pa + arth 28 arthes ( neat !) 20 ffured 36 ffurff 33 eogau 18 hebog 32 cod 2 dacw 4 boda 22 llinos 22 rhewi 26 haf 9 mws 7 sa + afal 26 190 217 Go on, give it a go ... |
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