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Welsh has the unfortunate combination of being unfamiliar to most English speakers, and not exotic enough to score diversity points.

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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

It surprisingly resembles Swedish language a bit.

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"

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