#wenglish

[celticstudies]

The beauty of the word "cwtch" is actually that it doesn't conform entirely to either Welsh or English spelling conventions.

[barnlarn]

Does anyone here ride Wenglish?

.............*raises hand*

[berensreverie]

Growing up learning English but also slowly realizing there are different flavours of English is stupid and funny. For a long time I thought "dotty" means "cute", but no, it means "crazy", and the word I was thinking of is "dwtty" which is Welsh/Wenglish. I must have had a Welsh teacher once and picked it up from him thinking it was English.

[hello-from-avalon]

My brain for no reason at 12:53 on a Friday:

Wenglish in Welsh is "Cymraesneg", which is actually better.

[broganwen]

Linguistics is descriptive, not prescriptive.

There is no ‘correct’ language or dialect. They all developed as part of the history of the people who speak them and should all be celebrated.

And phrases that are grammatically ‘incorrect’ are fine as long as they are able to be understood. And after a while they become part of the language and should be considered grammatical.

But I will still never accept ‘hence why’, it just makes me die inside. It’s just ‘hence’ or ‘that’s why’. You don’t need to ‘suffocation, no breathing’ your connectives.

I say ‘whose mug is that cup’, ‘there’s lovely’, and ‘now in a minute’ unironically. But I have a physically painful reaction to ‘hence why’.

Please tell me other people have common non-grammatical phrases that physically hurt them too.

[creatrixcymraes]

I love adding extra syllables for emphasis yk. I'm not just tired I'm tie-YUD!

[arcadia-city-stories-if]

hiiiii i saw your comment and had to ask whats a wenglish?

I'm not sure why but this ask is adorable to me lol.

Wenglish is basically what I speak IRL lol. Most people in South Wales speak the same way and it's a majority of English words but spoken in Welsh language speech patterns?

If you're not familiar with it it's kind of hard to describe but doing things like starting a sentence with a contraction and ending it with the same words is probably the easiest example, using two different words that mean the same thing right next to each other, adding unnecessary joining words, starting no answers with the word yeah and vice versa, as well as a variety of local words that don't really mean anything anywhere else.

Example time!

That's lush, that is.

I'm tamping, I am.

I'm freezing cold or I'm boiling hot.

Where you to?

What are you on with?

It's by there.

I'll do it now in a minute.

I wants a cwtch, I do.

Arka this one, he's chopsy he is.

Yeah, no, that's not gonna happen. (means no)

No, yeah, that's the plan. (means yes)

etc etc

There's also the more stereotypical phrases that are used for jokes but I've actually heard out in the wild like-

Whose pint's this half?

Whose coat's this jacket?

You reading that paper you sat on?

Lol it's all Wenglish and most of us don't realise we're doing it until it's pointed out or, like in my case, you catch yourself typing it out and then you learn to reel it in reeeeeal quick so people don't think you're chatting absolute nonsense lol.

[celticstudies]

Maybe I should write in Wenglish as some sort of attempt to destigmatise "non-standard" dialects of English.