tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177035473709490779.post126233470160512706..comments2023-11-02T03:53:35.513-07:00Comments on Politics by Rebuttal: Just how Welsh Speaking is Gwynedd today?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03940241943756155933noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177035473709490779.post-78025970551185559032017-07-31T07:35:33.647-07:002017-07-31T07:35:33.647-07:00And Abermaw or Bermo......is an interesting one......And Abermaw or Bermo......is an interesting one...the very name Barmouth was made up in the 1700s and forced on the locals through a trade embargo by merchants as the Welsh was too difficult to use officially - this according the author Jan Morris Bryn-Dafhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13341258534904077701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177035473709490779.post-3846449106150097672017-07-31T06:34:51.610-07:002017-07-31T06:34:51.610-07:00full dependency on an industry in which most compa...full dependency on an industry in which most companies arent even owned by locals - is a deathknell for local community culture<br />NEVER GO FULL DEPENDENCYBryn-Dafhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13341258534904077701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177035473709490779.post-12489149999408015162016-08-02T11:46:17.053-07:002016-08-02T11:46:17.053-07:00So would you want there to be no tourism at all?So would you want there to be no tourism at all?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03940241943756155933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177035473709490779.post-31768452351033376232016-08-02T11:04:25.870-07:002016-08-02T11:04:25.870-07:00The reason for the decline of the Welsh language i...The reason for the decline of the Welsh language in Gwynedd - and indeed, Ceredigion, N Pembrokeshire and other areas - is tourism and the inevitable influx of colonists that results from tourism. <br /><br />Tourism in the past century has done more to anglicise and 'neutralise' Wales than all the medieval armies put together.<br /><br />Yet too many Welsh are blind to the danger because they've been brainwashed into believing that tourism is the economic salvation of rural and west coast Wales.<br /><br />Either we start waking up to the danger of tourism, which brings few benefits to Welsh people, or we accept the death of Welsh as a community language. Jac o' the North,https://www.blogger.com/profile/02032744625666336148noreply@blogger.com