Mille Cymru - Welsh 1000 - 23-26/07/2010

[Euan Uzami]

...I still struggle with the placename 'Machynlleth'

MA-hinth-lath apparently

[Maverick]

Dear Mr Dulates,

Llandildoes becomes 'Dildoes.

Not sure I'll want to use this particular abbreviation

[Rhys W]

...I still struggle with the placename 'Machynlleth'

MA-hinth-lath apparently

Ouch! Not even close.

[Euan Uzami]

...I still struggle with the placename 'Machynlleth'

MA-hinth-lath apparently

Ouch! Not even close.

t's how it was said on a train, by the welsh-accented* train announcer.

*which doesn't necessarily mean he's right

[mattc]

2nd class return to Nottingham, please!

[for older readers ... ]

[Aidan]

Ma-cunt-lith

There... I've said it

When I worked in Birmingham we delivered to a customer in Machynlleth.  Drivers used to call it  Macuntlips

[vistaed]

Ma-cunt-lith

There... I've said it

When I worked in Birmingham we delivered to a customer in Machynlleth.  Drivers used to call it  Macuntlips

Other wise know to friends as "you know that place in Mid-Wales that start's with an M, near the centre for alternative technology"

[JohnHamilton]

You're all wrong. It's simply "Mac" And you're not even going there.

Now try Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa.

[Hummers]

You're all wrong. It's simply "Mac" And you're not even going there.

Now try Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa.

That's even more of a mouthful  than Macuntluv Mac.

H

[Tewdric]

Bydda i'n helpwyr am y gorffen a bydda i'n hapus i helpu pawb yng ngymraeg neu saesneg.

Wrth gwrs, os dych chi'n siarad dim ond saesneg, a chymrud y piso o'r enwau y drefydd Cymru, bydda i'n pissio yn eich paned chi...

I am helping at the finish and will be happy to assist riders in either Welsh or English.  My apologies to Hummers as, despite having benefited from a public school education, I am unable to offer Greek.

[Hot Flatus]

Θα είμαι αρωγοί στον τερματισμό, και θα είμαι στην ευχάριστη θέση να βοηθήσουμε όλοι στην ευθύνη της εταιρικής σχέσης .

Φυσικά, αν το κάνετε εσείς μόνο μιλούν αγγλικά, και το κάτουρο που τοπωνύμια των πόλεων της Ουαλίας, θα είμαι τον καφέ σας piss

[Hummers]

Thank  you  for the kind offer Tewdric but it seems that Flatus is blessed with the gift of tongues.

H

[Panoramix]

Quand le cordier cordant veut corder la corde, pour la corde à corder, trois cordons il accorde. Si l'un des cordons de la corde décorde; le cordon décordant fait décorder la corde!

[thing1]

I am helping at the finish and will be happy to assist riders in either Welsh or English.

I'm sure by the finish, Welsh translation will be the least of Hummer's worries.

[Weirdy Biker]

I suspect my diction at the end of the ride will be:

Wibble - Yes
Wibble wibble - No
Wibble wobble - That's enough beer for now
Wobble wobble - Show me to my cot

[Tewdric]

Quand le cordier cordant veut corder la corde, pour la corde à corder, trois cordons il accorde. Si l'un des cordons de la corde décorde; le cordon décordant fait décorder la corde!

Aha! Entente cordiale!

[Plodder]

Wrth gwrs, os dych chi'n siarad dim ond saesneg, a chymrud y piso o'r enwau y drefydd Cymru, bydda i'n pissio yn eich paned chi...

Just tea in mine, please!

[vistaed]

I didn’t realise that I needed to include language lessons in my training for this event.

[Paul D]

I'm just going to talk LOUDLY in pigeon English and hope the locals get the gist of what I want.

[iddu]

I'm just going to talk LOUDLY in pigeon English and hope the locals get the gist of what I want.

If you can still talk you've not ridden far enough yet...

[Greenbank]

I'm just going to talk LOUDLY in pigeon English and hope the locals get the gist of what I want.

Did you need to do this on your recent DIY 1300 outside England? (This tactic worked well for me North of the border on LEL.)

[simonp]

I'm gonna get a welsh phrasebook app for my iPhone.

[Paul D]

I'm just going to talk LOUDLY in pigeon English and hope the locals get the gist of what I want.

Did you need to do this on your recent DIY 1300 outside England? (This tactic worked well for me North of the border on LEL.)

Nah. I lived in and around Glasgow for nearly 7 years so I'm competant if not fluent in Rab C Nesbitt.

Down in deepest Devon last weekend, now that was somewhere to speak loudly and slowly and hope they understood a few words of English.

[Chris N]

Down in deepest Devon last weekend, now that was somewhere to speak loudly and slowly and hope they understood a few words of English.

And what were the locals like?

[JohnHamilton]

Two weeks to go... Time to wake the dragon and go see just what I've created. Iddu, Mikek and Pete Turner(notp) due to arrive later. Off early tomorrow am - hopefully I'll make it back within 75hours

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