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King Coconut Posted July 3, 2024 Posted July 3, 2024 (edited) I didn't realise we could post such dull shit here! Nice! TIL the Rhondda River has two sources. The Rhondda Fach (Small Rhondda) and Rhondda Fawr (Large Rhondda) converge at Porth to form the Rhondda proper. Edited July 3, 2024 by King Coconut Next thing you know you're getting their hair and they nails done. Quote
Paid Members Carbomb Posted July 3, 2024 Paid Members Posted July 3, 2024 (edited) 44 minutes ago, King Coconut said: I didn't realise we could post such dull shit here! Nice! TIL the Rhondda River has two sources. The Rhondda Fach (Small Rhondda) and Rhondda Fawr (Large Rhondda) converge at Porth to form the Rhondda proper. Now this is interesting to me - I know that "bach" and "mawr" are Welsh for "small" and "big", so what's happened here? Is it something like what happens in the Gaelic languages, where beginning consonants are lenited and change their sounds when their nouns become an object in a sentence? @garynysmon? Edited July 3, 2024 by Carbomb Quote
King Coconut Posted July 3, 2024 Posted July 3, 2024 35 minutes ago, Carbomb said: Now this is interesting to me - I know that "bach" and "mawr" are Welsh for "small" and "big", so what's happened here? Is it something like what happens in the Gaelic languages, where beginning consonants are lenited and change their sounds when their nouns become an object in a sentence? @garynysmon? It's all about the gender of the preceding word. I believe feminine requires the F. Quote
Paid Members Carbomb Posted July 3, 2024 Paid Members Posted July 3, 2024 4 minutes ago, King Coconut said: It's all about the gender of the preceding word. I believe feminine requires the F. Ah, I see. My language receptors thank you. Quote
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted July 3, 2024 Paid Members Posted July 3, 2024 21 hours ago, SuperBacon said: KRS ONE claiming it stood for Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everybody always annoyed me, but he's so pretentious I believe him. Wu-Tang standing for Witty, Unpredictable Talent And Natural Game is another one which I'm pretty sure GZA made up in a song years after their debut but RZA pretends has always been the case. Quote
Paid Members JLM Posted July 3, 2024 Paid Members Posted July 3, 2024 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaolin_and_Wu_Tang Haha yeah, that famous 80s kung fu movie: Shaolin and Witty unpredictable talent and natural game. Big Daddy Kane also added the backronym King Asiatic Nobody’s Equal. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted July 3, 2024 Members Posted July 3, 2024 16 minutes ago, LaGoosh said: Wu-Tang standing for Witty, Unpredictable Talent And Natural Game is another one which I'm pretty sure GZA made up in a song years after their debut but RZA pretends has always been the case. GZA also came up with BIBLE (Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth) the cringey bastard. Guru was also Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal (emcees that ain't equipped get flipped in my circle) which reminds me of when 16yo Bacon went to some sort of club night in my FUBU cap, and was asked if I knew what it meant. I replied "yeah For Us By Us, meaning the hip hop community" before being politely informed it meant the black community, and I took it off and never wore it again. I've just died inside at that interaction and my response. MC Baconbits really thought he was down like that. Quote
Fog Dude Posted July 3, 2024 Posted July 3, 2024 5 hours ago, Carbomb said: Ah, I see. My language receptors thank you. It's more complicated than that, but essentially your initial instinct was correct since Gaelic and the Brythonic languages (which include Breton and Cornish) are all Celtic at the end of the day. Essentially, feminine adjective require a soft "mutation" (treiglad meddal) which changes the first letter of certain words, and it just so happens that in this instance both 'B' and 'M' turn into an 'F'. Other types of morphology exist but have a narrower range of triggers. Quote
Paid Members Carbomb Posted July 3, 2024 Paid Members Posted July 3, 2024 1 minute ago, Fog Dude said: It's more complicated than that, but essentially your initial instinct was correct since Gaelic and the Brythonic languages (which include Breton and Cornish) are all Celtic at the end of the day. Essentially, feminine adjective require a soft "mutation" (treiglad meddal) which changes the first letter of certain words, and it just so happens that in this instance both 'B' and 'M' turn into an 'F'. Other types of morphology exist but have a narrower range of triggers. That's the thing, though - I thought the Goidelic/Brythonic divide excluded any kind of mutation in the latter, so it's interesting to find out there is a version of that after all. Quote
Paid Members garynysmon Posted July 3, 2024 Paid Members Posted July 3, 2024 (edited) 9 hours ago, Carbomb said: Now this is interesting to me - I know that "bach" and "mawr" are Welsh for "small" and "big", so what's happened here? Is it something like what happens in the Gaelic languages, where beginning consonants are lenited and change their sounds when their nouns become an object in a sentence? @garynysmon? Its mutation. Their use is one of those things that as a first language speaker just sound right or wrong when you hear/read them, but the rules surrounding mutation are probably the hardest to learn as a learner and getting them mixed up is usually a giveaway that they’ve learnt the language later on in life (not that they’re not totally intelligible anyway or that we want to discourage anyone learning!) You assumed correctly, its a Celtic thing. https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Welsh/Mutations Edited July 3, 2024 by garynysmon Quote
Paid Members Carbomb Posted July 3, 2024 Paid Members Posted July 3, 2024 2 hours ago, garynysmon said: Its mutation. Their use is one of those things that as a first language speaker just sound right or wrong when you hear/read them, but the rules surrounding mutation are probably the hardest to learn as a learner and getting them mixed up is usually a giveaway that they’ve learnt the language later on in life (not that they’re not totally intelligible anyway or that we want to discourage anyone learning!) You assumed correctly, its a Celtic thing. https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Welsh/Mutations Currently in the middle of learning Indonesian Bahasa (want to visit there in the next couple of years), but I've always wanted to learn Welsh, so will probably do that next on Duolingo (such a good app). Quote
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