The Colonists' Tongue

Strolling down the street of Queens this morning, I heard the Romanian language and to me it sounded great. There were a group of about six or seven people and one woman holding court. I thought, great to hear another language apart from English in the Welsh Capital. I don't hear much Welsh now on the streets. I don't go to the 'Black Pig' or 'Clwb' or the Diwc of Clarence. In fact I don't do anything at all with Welsh Speakers in Cardiff and because I am a Welsh speaker, that in itself is strange. As a judgemental bastard I tends to categorise people by their human qualities, not by the language they speak, so a kind English speaker gets the vote and my approval over a cruel Welsh speaker any time. I still have Cymry as friends from the old days but having not had a television for ten years I don't tends to watch the old S4C like. I would only get jealous and resentful watching the 'cyfryngis' raking it in. As I might have mentioned before, I think it's immoral for people to make a living off the back of an endangered language. If it wasn't for Gwynfor Evans and the Welsh Language Society, some of these gracing our screens and airwaves would not now be making a killing. They weren't even born when Gwynfor threatened William Whitelaw and the Conservative Government with fasting until death unless a Welsh Language Fourth Channel was created.  Now the words fall out of their mouths like crumbs from the BBC's table. So hearing Romanian brought a rush, thinking what it would be like if everyone spoke Welsh and English was the minority language. As long as the majority who spoke it were kind because kindness in my opinion is the most important quality you can have regardless of which language you speak. Language, our primary means of communication takes second place when we hear of Ebola and ISIS. The two 'great' topics of our news channels in 2014.  There is a Polish shop now in Grangetown which is bigger than the Tescos Extra. I think 'Great', the entrepreneurial spirit less than a mile from the Purple & Gold UKIP shop in Colonial Penarth. Welsh as a language was erased from the Industrial Coalfield areas of South Wales by...the Industrial Coalfield areas of South Wales. The Industrial Revolution stripped away the language and now those Capitalists and their workers, their descendants, have the nerve to moan about immigration.