By the way, he doesn't really say precisely what he implies by using the work "resist" as opposed to ,say, "prevent." Does he imply here that sometimes you do the bloody SM anyway and they can't touch you for it ? You might get some comic effects from NOT resisting it ....
Example 1.... in the good old days when I didn't know about all this, I SM'd "Gorky's Zygotic Mynci" into "Orky's Zygotic Mynci" which I now know I shouldn't have under the " Proper names resist SM" rule. I thought it sounded horrible but it does have a rather comic look about it. Then there's Ruff Rhys of course.
Example 2 ... Is " Mr" part of your proper name ? .. if so, Mr Bean could, if you did the SM and ignored Mr King's sage advice, turn into the well-known monk "Fr Bean." I like it. And if the rather old-fashioned "Master" for young boys is part of your proper name, it would be a shame not to be allowed to have a bit of a laugh at the expense of the young version of our ex-shadow chancellor by SM-ing his name to Faster Balls.
Example 3 ... resisting SM on proper names would put a stop you doing silly and thoroughly funny things like calling people Eorge, Golin, Fartin, Batrick, Furiel, Ladys, Gristopher .... well worth taking the risk I say. Especially for Fartin.
Another of his bits of "resistance" advice is that " you don't SM expression with a "hidden" y.... such as "(y) tu allan". "
Yes, fair enough, but how do you know which ones have the elusive, rather wraith-like hidden "y"s ? That's my question. Because they're ,er, hidden aren't they!
I also didn't know that you should "resist" SM for English loan-words, especially ones starting with g- .It's a pity, because it would be nice to occasionally be able to talk about a ramoffôn and olff and the student rant , but apparently we should resist temptation.
Nor should you SM "non-Welsh" place names, so no "Fumbles Head" or "Farrow" or "Fuckinghamshire" or " Rimsby" or "Lastonbury" or "Batagonia" or "Beebles" or Fiddlesex" which is by far the best sort. What a shame... but rules are rules, and I thought it best to bring your attention to them .
Well, having put these serious and weighty matters to one side, we now turn to Sobin a'r Smaeliaid with their spirited rendering of Dagrau o waed .... no hidden "y" there then, eh !