Notices by Nic Dafis (nic@toot.wales)

@HauntedOwlbear Not very metal today, but a label that’s on here - @ClayPipeMusic - so there’s that

A student just passed this along, so apologies if it’s already done the rounds. It’s quite an achievement to spell a two-letter word incorrectly, but here we are.

This is pretty common type of #scymraeg and the cause is obvious: san serif fonts + not bothering to check with an actual Welsh speaker before sending the text to the sign maker.

The Welsh for ‘ice’ is ‘iâ’, but Iâ (uppercase i) and lâ (lowercase L) are difficult to tell apart.

@davidgerard The last office job I had (briefly) required me to drive 64 miles a day to fiddle with a database on the internet. They even had an office I could’ve walked to near my village, but “the IT dept is in Aberystwyth”. I lasted 5 weeks.

@kkarhan @davidgerard In the interview they hinted at flexibility, but once I started they insisted on six months of pointless commuting

People who think “preferred pronouns” is a novel idea obviously don’t speak a language that has more than one second-person pronoun.