I've had a bit of fun with these two stories, what with getting Google Translate to give "its" version of them, which has probably blown a few valves in the gubbins inside the thing, but it does make you think about the wisdom of putting computers in charge of so many things both now and even more in the future.
And when it all comes down to it, I think we want the languages we are learning to have some mystery about them, we don't want it to be dead easy, we want to think we're doing something special.
Well, us lot learning Welsh are certainly doing that. And so we should.
Dyna ni !
CANLYNIADAU, rhan 3
A 'co ni'n dod at Norah. Wel, bai Norah yw e 'mod i lico drama o gwbwl. 'Na beth od yw ffawd neci fa. Cered lawr y coridor yn South Hall, Coleg y Drindod, yn y dyddie cinta rheini yn pendrwmi i drio penderynu pwy bwnc i ddilyn. A'r fenyw fech, fe 'ma â'r llicid fel dou ddiamwnt yn dishgwl drwyddoch chi a'r talcan uchel 'na llawn brains, yn 'y ngalw i miwn i ryw stafell lle o'dd wyth arall o'r flwyddyn ginta yn ishta ishta-delwa o ofan. Dechruws hi siarad am ryw fenyw o'r enw Blodeuwedd a'r artist a'i creodd hi, Saunders Lewis - d'odd neb fel'na ym Mlaenllechau allai weud 'tho chi nawr - a chi'n gwpod, dicwydd rhwpath od i fi. Ethoi i dwmlo'n itha fflsyd, o'dd y'n anal i'n bring, ag o'n i'n gweld popath miwn ffordd wanieth. Chi'n gweld, man a man â shanco i fi gyfadde wrthoch chi , gwmpes i mewn cariad ! Do wir i chi. Cwmpo miwn cariad. Ddim yn y fan a'r lle, ond dicwyddws a rwbryd yn ystod yr orie rhyfeddol 'ny yn South Hall. Neci 'da Norah nê Blodeuwedd gyda llaw. Nê. Gwmpes i miwn cariad 'da'n iaith, y Gymrêg. O'n i wedi bod yn 'i wiliai a'i chymryd yn ganiataol yr holl flynydde a heb feddwl. Cwmpo miwn cariad yn anorchfygol, ddi-droi'n-ôl. A chanlyniad hwnna odd rhoi ystyr a chyfeiriad i fywyd a bodolaeth. A 'na beth shimpil i'w weud, neci fa ?
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Now then, this time I'm not going to show you the Google Translate version ... I'm going to get you to do it. Partly because I suspect that a lot of you out there don't actually believe it...and I can't really blame you. So ... if you want to see what the blasted machine makes of it, then have a go for yourselves.
And ... what about the music ? What can I put on here? I've always loved this Datblygu song ... "Santa a Barbara" .... he seems to be happy in it..