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I just got some troll telling me that he hopes that nobody talks in the manner of my colloquial Welsh on the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
dysgu_cymraeg forum.
My response was to retort, in Welsh, "What are you trying to do? If you are trying to frighten off the beginners, you're going the right way about it. Everybody can make a mistake. My Mum says "Heb ei fai - heb ei eni," ("Nobody born can be blameless") but nobody likes the company of a showoff know it all."
I get this problem with every bloody language forum I log on to. There's always some witless fucker who tries to show how much of the formal, correct language he knows.
If he had been teaching French, this would be the sort of man who would retort that "Enculer" is not in the French dictionary. And yet he would be called it everywhere he went, if he wandered over to France. And he would never stop to wonder why.
dysgu_cymraeg forum.My response was to retort, in Welsh, "What are you trying to do? If you are trying to frighten off the beginners, you're going the right way about it. Everybody can make a mistake. My Mum says "Heb ei fai - heb ei eni," ("Nobody born can be blameless") but nobody likes the company of a showoff know it all."
I get this problem with every bloody language forum I log on to. There's always some witless fucker who tries to show how much of the formal, correct language he knows.
If he had been teaching French, this would be the sort of man who would retort that "Enculer" is not in the French dictionary. And yet he would be called it everywhere he went, if he wandered over to France. And he would never stop to wonder why.
