Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 21, 2011

Sure they do … unless you’re English.

Dw I ddim yn siarad Cymraeg.

Google Translate gives: I do not know. Yes. I’m sorry.Nice little gadget: http://www.google.com/ig/directory?type=gadgets&url=www.gstatic.com/ig/modules/dictionary/kennedy/dictionary.xml

Was Welsh invented by someone’s cat walking across the keyboard…?

Maen nhw’n ar i ni. Rydym yn ymosod ar doriad gwawr. Cael y llygoden fawr gyntaf.

Cwm fjord bank glyphs vext quiz.

They come in peace but will fight to the death in defense! Men of Harlech! Owen Glendower, Prince of Wales!

They invented grape jelly.

Bron-Yr-Aur Forever! Long may Zep stomp !♥!♥!♥!♥!

I do not know. Yes. I’m sorry i.

Hey! it gave Merv Griffin the idea for Wheel of Fortune. Can I buy a lifetime supply of vowels Vanna?!. . ..

Nid wyf yn y swyddfa ar hyn o bryd. Anfonwch unrhyw waith i’w gyfieithu.

Or there’s this:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7702913.stm

Yorn desh de umm desh de born bork bork bork!

Alun, where are you when we need you?

And fatjimi — yes. At Concord.

“I do not know. Yes. I’m sorry i. " according to google. >.>

—> Andrea@home. It translates as: “I do not know. Yes. I am sorry.” Dw i’n mynd yr Cymru dydd Gwener.

so, the welsh are aliens? then, what about tom jones or other welshies?

…quite it..you’re making my brain hurt…

wakarimasen

Leó Szilárd suggested to Fermi that extraterrestrials “are already among us—but they call themselves Hungarians.”

@keno21: Welsh was spoken before it was written, and was written centuries before keyboards, so cats had little to do with it. @JohnnyDiego: pronounce it roughly like “Dewey thim un gooeybod. Ado. Mine throog gen ee.” And make the ‘th’ sound hard, like in ‘this.’

Welsh proverb: ddlrig awkreoth jsjhuhq haallleaadkkdh. Or was that Klingon?

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.

Don’t bet on it!

According to Babblefish.com, that translates to:

I do not know. Am. I’m sorry i.

Let it be noted that ‘Welsh’ is a Germanic term for foreigner, alien. (German Swiss call French Swiss that.)

So Rat is not wrong.

Yeah – I’d like to know how to pronounce it, too. I believe “dd” is a “th” sound, right?

At the GoBrittania travel guide they have a nice article on how to pronounce Welsh.

.Gwd lwc. Ai hop ddat yw can ryd ddys and ddat yt meiks sens tw yw. Iff yw can ryd ddys, dden yw ar dwing ffaen and wil haf no problems at ol yn lyrnyng awr ffaen Welsh alffabet..

Good luck: I hope that you can read this, and that it makes sense to you. If you can read this, then you are doing fine and will have no problems at all in learning our fine Welsh alphabet.

I did not know. Yes I am. Sorry I am… WTF? Can’t wait to see where this leads…

Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do!

@G Hardy Thanks for the link! Very Funny!!!

They must have interesting internet shorthand.

I think it’s Rat’s homage to the International Day of Peas.

thebird55, Dave4B: Google Translate rheolau, ac rydych roc! :)

“Maen nhw’n ar i ni. Rydym yn ymosod ar doriad gwawr. Cael y llygoden fawr gyntaf.”

???

Paid â chyffwrdd â chyffuriau, plant! :-D

Welsh is a language that sounds like poetry but looks like someone vomited the alphabet.

Wow. Rat yn buffoon anwybodus.

“Iggy toople Zap”: Tom Jones forever.

LOL LOL!

xxx

banana-rama-ding-dong….

Oogie boogie ick ick!÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷Wales… in… spaaaaaaaaace!

Creo que no comprendes espanol…

No, what happened was some priest went wandering around armed only with a keg with no bottom and the anglicized alphabet. Then he tried to spell what he heard.

This, this.

@SCAATY_423 Mae gen i deimlad heddiw yn ddiwrnod brysur i’r adran Gymraeg Cyfieithu Google.

As a Welshman myself and a Welsh speaker, these are obviously answers to questions and not a sentence themselves. Dw i ddim yn gwybod is I don’t know. Ydw is yes, but a first person yes and would be the answer to such a question as Ydy chi’n mynd ir theatr heno? (Are you going to the theatre tonight?). Yes as the English speakers know it is ydu. Mae’n ddrwg gen i is actually sorry, but said in a very polite way.

Welsh is an ancient language from the same group of Celtic languages such as French, Cornish, Manx and both Scottish and Irish Gaelic and is considered one of the oldest still spoken language in the world. At one time it would have been spoken throughout the British Isles and much like English today would have had different dialects. Aber is Welsh for mouth of the river, hence Aberdeen means mouth of the river Deen. Swansea’s welsh name is Abertawe, which is mouth of the river Tawe. Scottish Gaelic for Scotland is Alba, the Welsh for Scotland is Alban.

Sorry for the lengthy history lesson, but it’s nice to see my first language being referenced in an American comic strip.

Hwyl

Sylwadau heddiw wedi bod yn hwyl ac yn llawn gwybodaeth.Hyfforddi’r Mwy, os gwelwch yn dda. Gallwn i barhau i wneud hyn am gyfnod.

Cymraeg mor ddryslyd (Welsh is confusing)

I think’s GREAT how so many of the commenters know this little-spoken language! May it continue to be spoken for many ages on.Incidentally the name “Welsh” was used by Germanic invaders to designate the Romanized inhabitants they came across, so it has something in common with Walloons (Belgium), Vlachs (Romania) and the Wallace surname of Scotland.

I have no idea if any of the commenters are using real Welsh, or just Mock Welsh. (As in the Mock Swedish spoken by the Swedish Chef…)

The Welsh/American Club of The Villages, Fl thanks Mr Patis for this recognition. The Welsh get too little.Barry the Descendant

oh gawd.p.s. stephster, can u do a harry potter strip

When rat beats the crap out of people it’s funny

someone translate

Ni yo tampoco. Me gusta el uso de la idioma mas bella que hay. Nos vemos

Alla i ddim yn credu eich bod yn mynd drwy holl waith dim ond i ddarganfod beth mae hyn yn golygu yn y Saesneg. Oni bai, wrth gwrs, gallwch ddarllen Cymraeg i ddechrau. Llongyfarchiadau!

I have Welch ancestry, but I’m not blessed to speak the language (nor do I have any sort of gift with languages that would allow me to actually learn it either).

‘Welsh’ does means ‘foreigner’ or ‘alien’ in old English!

“I do not know I’m sorry.”

Would you please tell me how to write a note of appreciation for his viewpoint (Welsh as evidence of alien communication) directly to Stephan Pastis? Thanks a lot, songlaw@aol.com.

Ahh. Welsh. The language I’ve never heard of.

i thought it was just a bunch of random letters. LOL.

IHTOASMTIACOTYHABYWABOL.

Pronunciation: Mainly, the “y” is pronounced as “i” as in “pit” or sometimes more like an “e”; “w” like “u” in the English “put”, and “dd” as “the” in the English “the”, while the “th” is as in English “thing”. A single “f” is pronounced like the “v” in English “evening”; a double “f” as the English “f”. “C” is pronounced like the English “k”. “ll” is a weird sound; you should pronounce it like an “l”… while blowing. “a” is pronounced as in “father”, “e” as in “get”, “i” as in “pit”, “o” as in “lost”. Most of the other letters are what you would expect.

The word “Welsh” comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for “alien”.

I do not know. Yes. I’m sorry

Sadly they probably think it’s from aliens because the Language it self is dying :(

“I do not know. Yes. I’m sorry.”