Originally Posted by bcoppola
It's a Celtic language, hence supposedly related to Scots and Irish Gaelic. But even the Gaelic speaking Irish and Scots can't understand or speak it
AFAIK.
Pretty country, though. I don't think there's a straight road anywhere in Wales.
There are but it is straight up the mountain - or straight down.
Talking about Gaelic. When I joined the Marines, we had a scots lad lad that was a bit slow, I think we called him thick. From day one of training- whenever an order was directed- he was always the last one to act to it. This went on for a couple of weeks and eventually we got to the bottom of the problem. He came from the Isles and his native tongue was gaelic. The only English he knew was very basic so whenever we were called to attention- he had to see what everyone else was doing and then he would copy. He learnt very quickly after that- but if you want to hear a foreign language- Talk to a Geordie. That is some one from Newcastle and the accent is so thick- it might aswell be a foreign language.