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Friday, 31 January 2014
Fulfillment?
Just in case anyone's asking questions; I'm a Merthyr boy who didn't know that the Welsh language even existed anymore until I was 12 years of age when I was given Mrs Jones as a Welsh teacher and she asked my fellow pupils who amongst us spoke Welsh, I was surprised if not shocked when some of them raised their hands. I have always been a proud Welshman, as are many of you, even though there was never a word of Welsh spoken in my family, leading me to think that it was a redundant language. I understood that it is a living language basically when practising it out loud for homework in my garden, my neighbour began speaking to me, then I found out that all my neighbours spoke Welsh including my next door neighbour who wasn't chapel but a Rhondda miner. I don't care who you are, there's no fulfillment in being Welsh without having a certain curiosity towards our mother tongue. There again if you think that Wales is an integral part of English rule within a monoglot system then there's no hope. I won't self-righteously pity you because we each have opinions on these things, but you are definitely missing out on the wholeness of your identity, something that no-one else can share with us.
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