Wedi bod yn pori trwy archifau cylchgronau Americanaidd ar-lein am erthyglau diddorol.
Dyma un: erthygl am ddatganoli gan Pamela Petro, awdur Travels in an Old Tongue:
Are the Welsh afraid of freedom? When James Callaghan’s Labour government put the issue of limited self-rule to Wales, in 1979, voters trounced it by a ratio of four to one. Even the Welsh cited as reasons a historical strain of national timidity and a lack of self-confidence bred into the country through centuries of subservience. A visiting African journalist told a local reporter in 1997, “The colonial mentality is more firmly entrenched in your country than in any other I have been to.”
Un arall o’r un cylchgrawn: Should English be the Law?:
We have known race riots, draft riots, labor violence, secession, anti-war protests, and a whiskey rebellion, but one kind of trouble we’ve never had: a language riot. Language riot? It sounds like a joke. The very idea of language as a political forceY¥– as something that might threaten to split a country wide apartY¥– is alien to our way of thinking and to our cultural traditions.
A dyma cyflwyniad at waith a bywyd John Cowper Powys:
To some readers, John Cowper Powys is a long-winded, bombastic bore and an almost pathological celebrant of oddball sex and chthonic realms. To most, he is an unknown quantity. His name seldom comes up in discussions of that dreary academic figment known as The Novel, and a number of well-read people of my acquaintance have never heard of him.
Beth am erthygl am ddwyieithrwydd, sy’n sôn am broblemau dysgwyr ail-iaith:
However determined their study of an adoptive language, however thorough their immersion in it, they eventually reach a plateau. At a dinner party conducted in the nonnative tongue, for instance, they may contribute to the table talk, but the best they can aspire to be is a bore. In such situations, as Evelyn Waugh observed, “there is no platitude so trite that a highly educated foreigner will not bring it out with pride.”
Rhywbeth bach yn wahanol, ac o ddiddordeb i fi achos daeth fy nghyn-wraig o’r dre yn y stori yw hanes arwyddion tafarndai yn Dedham, Massachusetts:
Tavern signs advertised the availability of food, drink, and lodging, but they were also meant to entertain and, sometimes, to broadcast the tavern owner’s political sympathies. The use of tavern signs to display political alliances accelerated during and after the Revolution. But in Dedham, Massachusetts, in the late 1740s, tavern owner, almanac writer, physician, and common lawyer Nathaniel Ames used his sign to skewer five of the province’s most powerful politicians: the justices sitting on the Superior Court of Judicature, Massachusetts’ highest court of law.
A dyma un sy’n f’atgoffa o’m dyddiau coleg (nid mod i’n hen hipi, ond wnes i sgwennu fy nhraetawd terfynol ar y Yippies), hanes Abbie Hoffman:
If you wanted to change society, you weren’t going to do it by lecturing people -Û you would do it by employing the artillery of pop culture itself to puncture the lumbering, humorless establishment, by using anarchic, prankish, lysergic humor to radicalize the hippies and humanize the radicals.