davidagain
@davidagain@lemmy.world
- Comment on ESL homework 2 weeks ago:
There’s more to a country than is in front of your nose, and for the third time, learning Welsh is compulsory in schools. You’re acting incredibly ignorant and you sound like you’re trying to be offensive deliberately.
- Comment on ESL homework 2 weeks ago:
Like I said,
Away from the south and the more touristy areas, you’re likely to find people speaking Welsh in everyday life (education, shopping, workplace), rather than just at home.
If the furthest north you went was Methryr Tydfil, you were never more than 15-20 miles from the M4 corridor, which is where the most strongly English speaking areas are, (apart from South Pembrokeshire and some more touristy bits).
I’m not surprised that you found mostly English speaking in the mostly English speaking parts of Wales. If you had stayed in East Anglia you might have concluded that England possessed no hills at all, but it might be worth admitting that there’s more to know than that.
So,
I just said that you could grow up in Wales never learning Welsh,
(apart from it being compulsory in Welsh schools)
because English is just as much (if not more) the language used in every-day dealings
in the South and more touristy areas, whereas Welsh is the main spoken language in much of the country further North.
- Comment on ESL homework 2 weeks ago:
My central point is just that Welsh is one of the languages of Wales and so can be third on your bullet points.
I think it’s at the very least rather undiplomatic to argue that it shouldn’t be called a national language of Wales.I’ve had people swear blind to me that they visited Wales on holiday and Welsh people are rude because they speak English in the shop until an English person turns up and then they switch to Welsh to exclude the English. I think they were mistaken that English was being spoken before they went in (how would they know?) and just assumed they were speaking English until they started paying attention, when they realised it was Welsh. I’m willing to bet £10 that any such people cannot accurately tell me the content of the English that was being spoken until they “switched to Welsh”.
Culturally, ignoring Welsh or downplaying its relevance to real people’s lives is similar in offence to telling British people that they don’t speak American properly, that they spell words like colour incorrectly, and that they should stop putting on their absurd British accent and just speak normally.
- Comment on ESL homework 2 weeks ago:
If you are born in Wales and never moved away, it might look like this:
English English English Welsh
If you are born in Wales and never moved away, it might look like this:
English English Welsh Welsh
Welsh is an official language of the UK and most things in Wales are in Welsh first and English second.
Away from the south and the more touristy areas, you’re likely to find people speaking Welsh in everyday life (education, shopping, workplace), rather than just at home.
- Comment on ESL homework 2 weeks ago:
Now EAL, English as an additional language.
- Comment on Detention Doesn’t Begin to Describe It 3 weeks ago:
Horrendous. Farage wants to do the same in the uk and it looks like as a nation we’re going to follow the USA down the path of having a milquetoast leader who is vaguely disappointing, and idiots deciding that we may as well unleash the nightmare on ourselves and our neighbours.
- Comment on happy valentines day❤️ 3 weeks ago:
Who says romance is dead!
- Comment on happy valentines day❤️ 3 weeks ago:
I’m hoping that I’m misinterpreting what you’re saying.
- Comment on A succulent meal 3 weeks ago:
I was a boy, and I appreciate it.
- Comment on Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 3 weeks ago:
Braindead ruling. Not as braindead as “the equality act was not intended to protect trans people” which is about as stupid and fucked up as it gets, but still really pretty braindead.
- Comment on Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 3 weeks ago:
Not if you’re selling it in shops.
I think you’re in the clear if you’re just giving it away to people you like.
- Comment on There's still life left in them! 3 weeks ago:
He looks great in them. Let him be.
- Comment on Trump audibly loses control of his bowels during a press conference - via Forbes Breaking News 4 weeks ago:
Can confirm.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 month ago:
You get blowjobs from Lemmy users?! I gotta try changing my username!
- Comment on pro choice 1 month ago:
Then it’s not empty. If it were a union of empty sets, that would be empty.
- Comment on Huh? 1 month ago:
Like my local pub, then. That’s how I like it. Spoiler: they’re not ranking it in and agent millionaires, though.
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 month ago:
Your heart’s not really in it any mid, is it. You’re not even trying to win the argument at all, you’re just trying to get the last word.
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 month ago:
I don’t think you’re very good at spotting when I’m being facetious and when I’m making a serious point. Let’s try again.
Hahahahahahahaha powerstruggle can’t even tell the difference been TEN and TWO!
Your diagrams overlap a lot and it’s a lie to say that you have disentangled the real chart when you have ignored and omitted details that don’t fit with your oversimplified untestable pseudoscience.
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 month ago:
Too true. Scared dogs bark a lot. Confident dogs accept and welcome.
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 month ago:
I understand that using reason, logic, truth and sense to debate with you was a waste of time and that we continue to disagree about sex. You claim there are only two sexes yet you are unable to demonstrate that on the real chart and you are unable to see that your eleven charts would be tangled up if you drew them as one diagram with one node each for each set of chromosomes, but there I go, talking logic to a bigoted troll who wouldn’t admit they were wrong under any circumstances whatsoever, because truth matters to them less than “winning”.
Did you own the libs again, powerstruggle? Did all the little red downvotes on the rest of the conversation prove you were winning your little war against the libs?
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 month ago:
I understand that you’re unable to use your definition to untangle the real chart. It’s OK, I knew that you wouldn’t be able to, and I also knew that you wouldn’t be able to admit that you can’t, because I also know that you want to win more than you want to be right. You’re quite happy to be wrong as long as you’re winning.
One day you may realise that truth and people are more important than winning, but that day is definitely not going to be today, and definitely won’t be written about using the powerstruggle account. Do you think that Charlie kirk realised that his loyalty to winning arguments was misplaced as he was dying, or do you think he died happy for a cause he believed in - the right to bear arms no matter the consequences?
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 month ago:
By right wingers typically, yes.
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 month ago:
I think I explained that one pretty well.
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 month ago:
Did you understand that anyone who actually knows something about it also knows that sex is more complicated than you claim? Did you understand that you’re being a complete arse to trans people? Wait, yes, you knew that one. That was the deliberate part.
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 month ago:
I was being sarcastic. Secretly I think you’re far, far more stupid than you begin to realise, because everyone who tries to explain what science or scientific method or scientific consensus means has wasted their breath because you’d rather cling to and defend daddy trump’s pseudoscience than learn amything. It’s willful ignorance and maybe the only cure is when trump’s goons kidnap someone you actually care about in real life that you might begin to question him in any meaningful way.
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 month ago:
You’re so clever, repeating stuff like you do while ignoring the truth of what you reply to. I really respect that.
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 month ago:
What the fuck are finding hard about “same thing at the top of several of them” that made you think they were disentangled? If I made maps where only one underground line was on each map it would in no way prove that the lines aren’t tangled in real life! Are you completely stupid or is it an act for the purpose of trolling more?
Given that we disagree about the meaning of the word sex and your charts use your definition, why on earth would it be meaningful for you to slap the word male and female on ten diargams that appear unconnected in only the most stupid and superficial sense that they’re in separate images, and why the fuck do you think I would fall for such a juvenile ruse?
If your (trump-following) “organised around producing” large gametes or small gametes theory that you’ve been telling everyone about for days and days on end holds water, have one chart, no duplicated nodes, split by gamete size, no tangles, the body is “organised” around the size of the gametes by your own definition, all the primary and secondary sexual characteristics well easily follow the “organisation” you claim is so definitive.
Or admit that your definition is useless.
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 month ago:
You’re so clever.
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 month ago:
You’re good at doubling down.
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 month ago:
I’ll take that as “no you can’t disentangle them”