I'm actually ashamed to say that untill some time ago, I had no idea Wales had its own language. On Orbital's "In Sides", there is a track entitled "Dŵr Budr" which supposedly means "dirty water". I always lived under the impression that the UK had English as the main language with various dialects, but not full bloomed other languages.

Even the words "Dŵr Budr" don't seem to be remotely related to English anyway (someone feel free to correct me on this one)

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On There's a fair bit of job security available for you in Colorado, Marcus: http://www.npr.org/2011/01/20/13265...d-prairiedogese

This is exactly the type of useful, productive and fulfilling work I always knew linguists were doing.

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Originally posted by Chimney I'm actually ashamed to say that untill some time ago, I had no idea Wales had its own language. On Orbital's "In Sides", there is a track entitled "Dŵr Budr" which supposedly means "dirty water". I always lived under the impression that the UK had English as the main language with various dialects, but not full bloomed other languages. Even the words "Dŵr Budr" don't seem to be remotely related to English anyway (someone feel free to correct me on this one)

"Dŵr Budr" is Welsh. So, related to English in a pretty distant way (certainly less than German or even French). They are on separate branches of the Indo-European tree of languages.

One of Aphex Twin's albums had a bunch of the song titles in Cornish, which is closely related to Welsh.

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Originally posted by Meat187 This is exactly the type of useful, productive and fulfilling work I always knew linguists were doing.

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Welsh and Cornish are varieties of Celtic. All the Celtic languages are only spoken by minorities now, and generally only as a show of political separatism from the United Kingdom.

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There's about 2 million people in Ireland who can speak at least some Gaelic. That's almost 50% of the population.

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Originally posted by OrangestO This isn't about physics, this is about waves.

Almost 50% is still a minority, and the percentage of people who can actually speak it fluently is a lot lower than that.

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Originally posted by Blake I still don't fully understand why the word 'corruption' in place of 'refinement' isn't correct. Aren't all languages just some corrupted form of other languages? Corrupted in the linguistic sense, of course... Can you explain further?

Corruption implies that it's a negative.

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Originally posted by OrangestO This isn't about physics, this is about waves.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Almost 50% is still a minority, and the percentage of people who can actually speak it fluently is a lot lower than that.

Sea, tá go maith go díreach cosúil le do thuairim fear,

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Originally posted by OrangestO This isn't about physics, this is about waves.

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Originally posted by srussell0018 Sea, tá go maith go díreach cosúil le do thuairim fear,

Google Translate tells me: "Yeah, well that just like your opinion man"

Are you actually fluent in Irish?

No not at all. I know a fair amount of Irish Gaelic words, but I can't speak the language. While you do learn it a little bit in school, it's mostly just words that you see everywhere. While a lot of people "speak" it, I would say very few are actually fluent, and the only places that you'll find a lot of fluent speakers are way out in the country.

The only words in that sentence I knew were "Sea" and "fear", and only because you see "Fir" on men's room doors pretty often.

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Originally posted by OrangestO This isn't about physics, this is about waves.

Ahh. I think it's cool that people are keeping it alive, though.