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I’m from Wales and it almost seems like a transliteration of the word “Mumble” - actual translation is “mwmial”

• dmurray 3y ago
  Welsh has the unfortunate combination of being unfamiliar to most English speakers, and not exotic enough to score diversity points.
  • melx 3y ago
    On that topic I love the Welsh-English encounter of civil servants thinking they understood each other[0] [0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7702913.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7702913.stm
    • zx8080 3y ago
      It surprisingly resembles Swedish language a bit.
    • mdaniel 3y ago
      Heh, I look forward to the future version of "en tant que modèle linguistique, je ne peux pas traduire ce texte" or in this specific case "fel model iaith, ni allaf gyfieithu'r testun hwnnw"
• toastal 3y ago
  But Mumble brings back fond memories https://www.mumble.info/ https://www.mumble.info/
• remram 3y ago
  So not only is it based on an obscure word in Welsh, but it's not even spelled correctly?
• daoudc 3y ago
  Yeah, pretty much, I named it after Mumbles or Mwmbwls where I live, but it's also a play on the word mumble.