Mr Blue Sky wrote:For you to suggest that it is my responsibility that some Welsh speakers are rude to me because of some fault of mine is patronising and actually rude. What i wrote was that when phoning Plaid members and voters from Ty Gwynfor a fair few of them had been angry that i couldn't speak Welsh. Probably about 5%.
I don't know what the Welsh is for "bollocks" but you should read posts more carefully before weighing in and writing bolwcs.
Wow Blue Sky, read my post again, I agree 100% with that. Those 5% are idiots, that's literally what I said
Cwlcymro wrote:"Mr Blue Sky, it breaks my heart that you were discouraged from learning by people criticising your pronunciation - those people are idiots."
The bit about 'If everyone you meet is rude to you, maybe you should start to think why.' was for those in the thread who said that all their experiences of Welsh speakers are of angry militants (i.e. Zach). Full apologies if I made it sound like that was aimed at you!
The only thing you've said in this thread I disagree with is
The people who live in a place get to pronounce it how they want to, not some outsiders with a superior attitude.
As someone living in a Welsh-named place that's pronounced differently by the vast majority of the people living here, I don't agree that I'm an outsider with a superior attitude for sticking to the proper pronunciation.