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Brother texts greetings in Welsh

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MoHub · 22/04/2025 02:20

My brother lives in Wales but he is English. He doesn't want to be Welsh, but every time he texts me at Christmas, New Year, birthday, etc he will do it in Welsh. So this weekend it was
Me: Happy Easter DB
DB: Pasg Hapus to you too

Don't get me wrong I like Wales, it's a lovely country, I like the Welsh and if a Welsh person wished me Happy Easter in Welsh that'd be fine but my brother is English and so am I. Every bloody time he does it.
A greeting in Welsh means nothing to me and yes I can work it out, but it doesn't half irk me and I know it's annoying me far more than it should.
AIBU to just want greetings in the language we both speak?

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Arlanymor · 22/04/2025 18:40

nomas · 22/04/2025 18:38

Time for you to step away and have a coffee maybe.

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Don’t drink coffee, I’m going for yoga on the beach. But as you’re being patronising, maybe time for you to step away and consider how abhorrent your attitude is towards people who speak a repressed language that has a massive history behind it that you care neither to understand nor acknowledge.

nomas · 22/04/2025 18:38

CatSnackTagine · 22/04/2025 18:37

Calm down

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Go have a nice lie down.

nomas · 22/04/2025 18:38

Arlanymor · 22/04/2025 18:36

You’ve called me that once already. Keep up with your insults and disgusting attitude.

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Time for you to step away and have a coffee maybe.

CatSnackTagine · 22/04/2025 18:37

nomas · 22/04/2025 18:34

It’s not silly to point out most people wouldn’t know know what below means.
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And I would have more respect for your opinion if you had challenged the people calling posters fucking idiots and fucking morons. But guess what, you didn’t. Says a lot, eh?

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Calm down

Arlanymor · 22/04/2025 18:36

nomas · 22/04/2025 18:35

And yet you were the one deleted for rudeness.

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You’ve called me that once already. Keep up with your insults and disgusting attitude.

nomas · 22/04/2025 18:35

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And yet you were the one deleted for rudeness.

nomas · 22/04/2025 18:34

CatSnackTagine · 22/04/2025 17:35

They would. You're being quite silly and rude to be honest. Other people have tried to explain this to you.

Most people would recognise a foreign greeting on a special day. Sorry, but that's that.

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It’s not silly to point out most people wouldn’t know know what below means.
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And I would have more respect for your opinion if you had challenged the people calling posters fucking idiots and fucking morons. But guess what, you didn’t. Says a lot, eh?

Arlanymor · 22/04/2025 18:14

TheWonderhorse · 22/04/2025 18:13

No idea why, I just pointed out that they call us foreigners everywhere, not just on the website.

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My error then.

TheWonderhorse · 22/04/2025 18:13

Arlanymor · 22/04/2025 17:29

So am I, but it didn't come across that way in your post. Not at all.

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No idea why, I just pointed out that they call us foreigners everywhere, not just on the website.

LlynTegid · 22/04/2025 18:04

Noswaith dda.

Wouldn't bother me in the slightest, be it Welsh or another language were a family member to live elsewhere.

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 22/04/2025 18:03

My brother married a Jewish woman... Now he wishes us "Shabbat Shalom" every week. It annoys the feck out of me!

They are not practising Jews btw.

Greebosmum · 22/04/2025 17:51

Oh my goodness. My sister is just the same. I don't take any notice now, just think she's a bit pretentious. Funniest thing I have heard her say, before going on a rant about Welsh schools, was 'I don't mind them speaking Welsh'. Grin I am sure the entire Welsh nation is delighted by that. As she is well past retirement age and has never had a child in a Welsh achool I'm not sure it is any of her concern.

Arlanymor · 22/04/2025 17:47

OhWhistle · 22/04/2025 17:47

Maybe a younger minor royal was interning and got confused. Don't they learn Welsh.

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HA! I just laughed out loud!!! Diolch!

OhWhistle · 22/04/2025 17:47

ohtowinthelottery · 22/04/2025 17:45

@Arlanymor I signed up as a member. All the details were completed by an employee/volunteer at a National Trust property in England. So I'm not sure where Welsh ever came up on anyone's radar.

Maybe a younger minor royal was interning and got confused. Don't they learn Welsh.

Arlanymor · 22/04/2025 17:46

ohtowinthelottery · 22/04/2025 17:45

@Arlanymor I signed up as a member. All the details were completed by an employee/volunteer at a National Trust property in England. So I'm not sure where Welsh ever came up on anyone's radar.

Well on behalf of Wales I am sorry you were so inconvenienced.

We've ourselves have been fairly inconvenienced since 1543, no one that I can write a letter to though...

Arlanymor · 22/04/2025 17:45

But thanks to the people on here who have reminded me to march in Barry on Saturday... just goes to show doesn't it really?

ohtowinthelottery · 22/04/2025 17:45

@Arlanymor I signed up as a member. All the details were completed by an employee/volunteer at a National Trust property in England. So I'm not sure where Welsh ever came up on anyone's radar.

OhWhistle · 22/04/2025 17:43

Arlanymor · 22/04/2025 17:43

Right?!

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Arlanymor · 22/04/2025 17:43

OhWhistle · 22/04/2025 17:41

It's been Captured.

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Right?!

Arlanymor · 22/04/2025 17:42

ohtowinthelottery · 22/04/2025 17:39

@Arlanymor I don't tend to bother though tbh. I may as well unsubscribe to the emails.
I'm just curious as to why their system is doing it in the first place.

Probably something you signed up for. Ticked the wrong box. Maybe remove yourself from their database and sign up again and make sure you don't sign up for Cymraeg.

OhWhistle · 22/04/2025 17:41

ohtowinthelottery · 22/04/2025 17:39

@Arlanymor I don't tend to bother though tbh. I may as well unsubscribe to the emails.
I'm just curious as to why their system is doing it in the first place.

It's been Captured.

ohtowinthelottery · 22/04/2025 17:39

@Arlanymor I don't tend to bother though tbh. I may as well unsubscribe to the emails.
I'm just curious as to why their system is doing it in the first place.

Arlanymor · 22/04/2025 17:37

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Arlanymor · 22/04/2025 17:36

ohtowinthelottery · 22/04/2025 14:30

Well I'm English, I live in England and I joined the National Trust at a property in England but every email they send me (and there's been quite a few) are in Welsh and English but with the Welsh first. Explain that!
I've emailed them asking them to stop it, had a reply that they're not sure why it's happening but they'd try and sort it but a month later it's still happening!
I think I could cope with the occasional greeting in Welsh from someone who lives in Wales. I actually have a Welsh friend in my English village who always wishes everyone happy birthday/Christmas/Easter in Welsh

Well I hope they sort that out for you soon, must be such a chore to scroll down.

CatSnackTagine · 22/04/2025 17:35

nomas · 22/04/2025 17:22

Er no, they wouldn’t. You’d have to be completely daft to think that.

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They would. You're being quite silly and rude to be honest. Other people have tried to explain this to you.

Most people would recognise a foreign greeting on a special day. Sorry, but that's that.