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Originally Posted by phoenix
so why is it not obscure 
are you welsh and offended?
it was a comparison made purely because the sound of welsh is astonishing to me. The fact that it exists whilst not really being a remote area dialect makes it amusing. to me.
guess not to you though. |
I'm not Welsh or offended - it's just that obscure has, to me, connotations of being awkward, deliberately difficult - I don't think of all British languages Welsh is the least 'obscure'. I hate to use the
dictionary definition...I suppose you're using obscure meaning 'not clear to the understanding' (?), but I think that's a misnomer - If you don't speak Mandarin, that doesn't make the language Mandarin obscure; there are literally tens of thousands of langauges, and by comparison to many, Weslh is very well-spoken. It's not in the Mandarin/ English/ Spanish league of things, but it is a fairly big deal.
Cornish strikes me as a non-language, or a language for political ends. Scots Gaelic is a political language except in small communities where it's continued 'organically'. Irish is definitely a different thing, the politics are almost stitched into the language (see the Hedge schools)...
But yeah. It's not an important point, and I don't want to be a dick. It's something that I'm interested in, but I can entirely appreciate it doesn't make any odds to you.