Welsh

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welsh

Title text: Found this delightful story in 'The Monsters and the Critics: And Other Essays.'

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In 1567, william salesbury created a welsh translation of the new testament.

This helped establish the orthographic standard for written welsh.

Before that translation, the letter k was quite common

That's because in salesbury's new testament, he dropped k and used c.

In welsh. Today, it's gone. It's always c instead.

You might imagine this was for linguistic reasons, but we have a contemporary statement from him on the topic, that reads: "c for k, because the printers have not so many as the welsh requiereth."

So, modern welsh looks more exotic than it should because a sixteenth century printer was out of tiny metal letters.

I wonder what percent of "authentic" culture comes down to an arbitrary decision by a long-dead ancestor.

Probably lots

We can make arbitrary choices right now and impose them on future people we'll never know! We can insist hot dogs must always come with spicy apple sauce, and our descendants will protect it like a beloved heirloom!

That is so empowering!

If we play our cards right, they'll believe the tradition is both older and more sacred than an idle conversation we had when we were kids!

Why do you have such a deep animus toward future people?

Probably

Because of

Something my

Ancestors did.

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We can convince them that comics are for adults!

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