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omg, you can now use slack in uk english

morning

Wiley have just commissioned the second edition of Machine Learning: Hands on for Developers and Technical Professionals. Which is looking like an 80% rewrite than just a bunch of changes here and there.

Congratulations @jasonbell

Thank you kindly

Gefeliciteerd @jasonbell

I’m googling that @thomas because you could be saying anything to me! 🙂

Cheers sir.

I could indeed...

mind you... I only know what it means in Dutch... no idea if it is a swear word in any other language.

I think you were safe this time.

hehe

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@otfrom only the Welsh can cwtch

can you be new Welsh the way people can be new Scots?

You can for my money, but some people may not agree

I would think so

I think the Welsh bank their spare letters in railway station names hence Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Welsh just means foreigner anyway :)

In Saxon

So I think you can be New Welsh more easily

That's why we're really Cymry

What does that mean exactly? Because the original name for the Welsh is the British. Which makes sense.

> probably from ancient combrox "compatriot," from British Celtic *kom-brogos,

I don't entirely follow the etymology. I would guess that it's a name given by the Celtic British residing in England?

Well Welsh is the Germanic rooted word for the original Celtic people forced to flee to the west but the invasion of the Angles and Saxons

So the original Welsh were Romano British

Or maybe the Scottish, as I think I vaguely remember some kind of relationship there post-roman

But they have the own words to describe themselves in thier own language "Cymry"

The Scots are Irish invaders

The Picts were their before them

Yeah, I meant the residents of Northumbria really :)

Although they all integrated (some what violently)

Who integrated violently?

The Scots and Picts

Haven't covered that too much yet, mostly the picts are a bit of a mystery as far as I know :)

I do find it funny that the Scottish are Irish, the Irish are Welsh, and the Welsh are British

Yep

My favourite joke about that is the Irish are just Welsh who could swim!

Haha.

The Cornish, Welsh and Breton's are all closely related

Languages share a common root

I wonder why we don't see more remnants of Celtic in France outside of Brittany

I guess the Gauls bullied them into a corner. A bit like the what happened in Britain

I think Brittany is because of fleeing the country

I think you may be right. But I guess the rise of Charlemagne probably stopped any ideas they may have had of expansion.

(I just read a bunch of this History Channel exchange out loud to my wife, who is pretty much falling down on the floor laughing!)

I only recently learned any history of my country :) it's kinda exciting that I could hold a conversation like that and follow it.

Although Charlemagne is outside my domain :)

@seancorfield what, because it's inaccurate or because it's History Channel in a Clojure Channel?

The latter 🙂

@dominicm I'm just glad @otfrom hasn't told me how wrong I am yet!

Everything you said aligns with what I know!

The interesting stuff I've been picking up is that the anglosaxons didn't invade us

@agile_geek you are right as far as it goes. I'm enjoying living in an Irish colony. When they came over they beheaded the existing Pictish king and held a party with his head at the foot of the new Scottish/Irish king

Really you just have to remember that the water (sea and rivers) were easy to travel on and the land was just about impassible. So think of "countries": organising around water rather than around land

I once heard that lowland Scots is very similar to some Dutch dialects/Frisian and that people around the North sea could talk to each other relatively easily.