{"id":13696,"date":"2023-08-02T13:45:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T12:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/?p=13696"},"modified":"2023-08-02T13:46:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T12:46:01","slug":"welsh-forget-me-not-the-minority-language-part-of-a-political-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/welsh-forget-me-not-the-minority-language-part-of-a-political-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh, forget me not: the minority language part of a political fight \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As the fight for preserving Welsh continues, how has Welsh been politicised and how much is learning it a political act? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When Anglesey Homes, a property development company announced that they were going to change the name of one of their houses in the village of Llanfaelog, Welsh Twitter erupted. The house which is \u201cavailable for 8 guests\u201d and \u201cpet friendly\u201d was originally called Gwel yr Wyddfa<\/em>, or View of Snowdon<\/em>, but the company said it would now instead be called 9 Sandy Retreat<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The response from the self-proclaimed \u201cWelsh twitter\u201d group was adverse. Some called it a lack of respect, others just a plain lack of originality. Some described it as cultural vandalism or even colonisation in action. This marked one of the most recent examples of the lengthy fight surrounding the preservation of Welsh and also how political it can be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Anglesey Homes put out a tweet just days later to say that it was the owners – a third party- who had renamed it, there was no turning back. The group had already written nearly 300 negative reviews about the homes to discredit them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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