tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10548919.post114537110968494041..comments2023-08-22T12:11:04.451+01:00Comments on Banksy's Blog: Column, April 18, 2006Banksyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12828119121143269262noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10548919.post-17555031962557706512007-06-11T21:30:00.000+01:002007-06-11T21:30:00.000+01:00Commenting on a blog post that's more than a year ...Commenting on a blog post that's more than a year old? Slight misnomer Thatsnews?<BR/><BR/>I refer you to the column and my comments - the ignorance of one employee is not indicative of company policy, no matter how large or small.<BR/><BR/>As to whether my commenting on it makes it a success, that rather depends on whether you believe the old adage about there being no such thing as bad publicity.Banksyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12828119121143269262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10548919.post-45905424069464931592007-06-11T16:55:00.000+01:002007-06-11T16:55:00.000+01:00But Banksy, you noticed it. Indeed, you have comme...But Banksy, <I>you</I> noticed it. Indeed, you have commented on it and given them more publicity.<BR/><BR/>Therefore their demonstration worked. And as it is part of a large chain with branches throughout the Uk it is not "one small shop."Martin Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04148241391183658112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10548919.post-1147095840312284812006-05-08T14:44:00.000+01:002006-05-08T14:44:00.000+01:00How? I refer you to my first comment here:"Half th...<I>How?</I> <BR/><BR/>I refer you to my first comment here:<BR/><BR/>"Half the problem the language faces is it's continued lack of visibility in our country. Yes, it's on the road signs, and there may be a little in your local post office and if you're really lucky, your bank. But otherwise it's invisible to the vast majority of the population the vast majority of the time. If the employee in question was working in a shop where Welsh was a visible as English, in a town and in a country where she saw Welsh everywhere, every day, then she would have been much more aware that she was in a Welsh-speaking environment where it is perfectly normal for people to start a conversation in Welsh. Her attitude, and that of the thousands of others who are ignorant of the language would change"Aledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07481522305151881457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10548919.post-1145962763765863912006-04-25T11:59:00.000+01:002006-04-25T11:59:00.000+01:00How?How?Banksyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12828119121143269262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10548919.post-1145885018285909392006-04-24T14:23:00.000+01:002006-04-24T14:23:00.000+01:00You cannot legislate away individual stupidity.Tru...<I>You cannot legislate away individual stupidity.</I><BR/><BR/>True, but you can legislate to create a luinguistic environment where such ignorance of Welsh would be impossible.<BR/><BR/><I>By all means make Welsh more visible, and that is CYI should be aiming to do, rather than frittereing away its energies on relatively minor slights to the language.</I><BR/><BR/>You're missing the point. CYI are using the Blacks case as an example of why a new Welsh Language Act is needed. Its not wasting its time on a minor slight, but publicising that slight as sympomatic of why the current situation is unacceptable because of the ignorace of Welsh it allows within large sections of the population. It is innumerable 'small' cases like this that make up the very big problem that a new Act would help tackle.Aledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07481522305151881457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10548919.post-1145549238688036942006-04-20T17:07:00.000+01:002006-04-20T17:07:00.000+01:00I agree, but I can't quite see how one employee's ...I agree, but I can't quite see how one employee's ignorance is indicative of company policy.<BR/><BR/>You cannot legislate away individual stupidity.<BR/><BR/>By all means make Welsh more visible, and that is CYI should be aiming to do, rather than frittereing away its energies on relatively minor slights to the language.Banksyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12828119121143269262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10548919.post-1145547117185252702006-04-20T16:31:00.000+01:002006-04-20T16:31:00.000+01:00"One small shop" in Betws y Coed Blacks may be, bu..."One small shop" in Betws y Coed Blacks may be, but it is part of the Millets group (360 shops throughout Britain, 14 in Wales) and therefore a perfect example of how the Welsh language is ignored by the large companies who come to Wales to make money, but show no respect to the Welsh language.<BR/><BR/>A new Welsh Language Act would compel such companies to provide bilingual sineage and such - there is not a single word of Welsh to be seen in any of Millets shops at the moment. So what you might say, that wouldn't stop the odd loose cannon of an employee making rude comments to Welsh speakers, but there you'd be wrong.<BR/><BR/>Half the problem the language faces is it's continued lack of visibility in our country. Yes, it's on the road signs, and there may be a little in your local post office and if you're really lucky, your bank. But otherwise it's invisible to the vast majority of the population the vast majority of the time. If the employee in question was working in a shop where Welsh was a visible as English, in a town and in a country where she saw Welsh everywhere, every day, then she would have been much more aware that she was in a Welsh-speaking environment where it is perfectly normal for people to start a conversation in Welsh. Her attitude, and that of the thousands of others who are ignorant of the language would change - surely even you can see that that can only be a good thing?Aledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07481522305151881457noreply@blogger.com