Mae’r Times Llundain wedi bod ati unwaith eto gan wneud popeth y gallent i estroni Cymry. Dw i ddim yn gallu cysylltu yn uniongyrchol â’r erthygl, felly dyma’r dyfyniad:
ìBashing Welsh speakers is the only form of minority-bashing that is still socially respectable in Britain,î complained Aran Jones, spokesman for the Cymuned pressure group.
I take great exception to his remark. Is he forgetting the Gaels and Doric speakers and the wonderfully silly Scots language lobby? I rather think he is, which is a form of suppression. All these groups are eminently bashable, but are being denied their inalienable right to be picked on because the Welsh lobby seeks to claim sole victimhood status. This is wrong: the Gaels et al are every bit as loopy as the Welsh, more so perhaps when you consider that a measurable number of people actually speak Welsh, a reality from which Scottish language nutters are happily spared. They must allow the Welsh to push them further into the margins. They must fight for their right to whinge. These Welsh wish to remove the hairshirts from your shoulders. You must not allow it. Stand up for their right to be put down.
O, ha ha HA! Oes unrhywun gyda digon o amynedd i fynd trwy archif y Times o 1963 i weld beth dwedon nhw am araith Martin Luther King?
Yn y cyfamser, dyma erthygl o’r Sunday Herald sy’n gofyn pam mae’r Albaneg (iaith Robert Burns, eicon mwya’r Alban) yn cael mwy o gefnogaeth yng Ngogledd Iwerddon nag yn yr Alban ei hun.
The moves [i hybu'r Albaneg yn Iwerddon], while broadly welcomed, have re-ignited the bitter debate in Scotland about the plight of Scots Lallans, the language of Burns, and of which Ulster-Scots is a variety ñ and the refusal of the Scottish Executive and parliament to award it official status .
ìHow ironic that theyíre now coming over here to promote the native language of Scotland,î sighed writer and broadcaster Billy Kay, who is a member of the parliamentís cross-party group on Scots.
ìMeanwhile in Scotland, various agencies run a mile every time Scots is mentioned for fear they have to confront the problem of this major cultural attribute, and major minority language, which the Scottish establishment has tried to ignore for centuries. Iím acutely aware of the ironies and wish Scotland had the same kind of money to spend.î
