At the end of July I posted noting that Downing Street had decided to expand it's foreign language offering so that it not only offered an Arabic version, but offered a French version too. I also noted that there was no Welsh version which, for a man who so loves Britain seemed strange.
Fear not lonely taff, you will soon have a version of the site available in your strange indo-european non-latin dialect. According to the Downing Street websites foreign language section, "[v]ersions in other languages, including Welsh and Portuguese, will follow soon."
Doesn't of course change the fact that they decided to give the Arabs, French, Italians and Spanish a version before you. You may have given us Dylan Thomas, Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins, Bertrand Russell and many others famous names but you really need to know your place!
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Can you please not refer to Welsh people as "taffs"? It is as out-of-order as calling Irish people "paddies" or Scottish people "jocks". You wouldn't do it.
I don't want to appear po-faced about this, as I know it's intended in a light-hearted and jocular fashion. it's just a bit...1970s.
Would "sheep shagger" be more appropriate?
You may take from that that my answer is no.
Are the Welsh allowed to call themselves Taffs, Norm? Is that a bit 1970's? A bit Alf Garnett?
People are "allowed" to do what they like. They just look naff doing it.
Are you calling bestiality naff?
What's naff about Taff?
I will take all comments with a pinch of salt.
You call the Welsh taffs. I call you a cunt. Fair, cunty baws?
Seems fair to me. It's only a word after all. Although I must admit I prefer to be called a wanker or a tosser. But hey ho.
If 'taff' were banned we'd have to rename the Taffia, and I can't think of any term to replace it that would have the same resonance.
So I defend your right to call me a Taff. Just so long as you acknowledge that all decisions have consequences: in this case a bloody good kicking if you happen to be within reach and are smaller than me (hey, I'm a pragmatist).
Buuenaventura
Of that list of famous Taffs you give, how many even spoke Welsh, let alone rose to fame on their use of it? Like French, it is a dying language.
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