Just watched that clip … Duw annwyl!!

Is this clip to do with the interview you are referring to? If not, then it’s worth watching anyway, because it DOES show what a puffed up annoying little prick that “Jase” (I’m Welsh & British) Mohammed really is. He’s never struck me as being too bright either – maybe that’s how they turn them out in Ely.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p038grpg

I think there is a growing consensus that Jason Mohammad is a nasty piece of work who, like so many BBC people before him – Vincent Kane comes to mind – thinks ‘Wales’ begins and ends with Kerdiff. And that those living outside the city are ‘Welshie’ fuckers who should be grateful to see Cardiff grab everything.

Id heard about the Jason Mohammad/Leanne Wood interview but not seen it. I thought Leanne did amazingly well to control herself in the face of shear stupidity from JM. This is the same person who, when it was decided to centralize all Welsh HMRC jobs in Cardiff (and create even more well paid jobs in an area that has already had far more than it’s share of those compared with the rest of Wales) and was asked about the 350 Swansea people who’s jobs were being transferred said ‘so what, they’ll still have jobs’.

The guy is a fool and should be given a job appropriate to his abilities. Toilet cleaning maybe.

It’s a business. They’re using these programmes, and the ‘celebs’, to sell their tests. It’s explained on the Cruwys News blog.

Yes, the genetics is bollocks on the whole.

What interested me was how the Welsh analog of ‘Braveheart-ary’ was played up in the Welsh text and played down in the English. How for example “one of today’s sporting heroes” becomes “a manly warrior who battled for the old land of his fathers in the field of sport” (un gwrol rhyfelwr a frwydrodd dros hen wlad ei dadau ar y meysydd chwarae). Rather than simply “dyn enwog o charaewr” or some such. Similarly, “ten powerful men who are likely to have lived in Wales less than 2,000 years ago” are transformed into “ancient chiefs and princes — the warriors who ‘shed their blood’ according to our national anthem” (hen benaethiaid a thywysogion – y rhyfelwyr a ‘gollasant eu gwaed’ yn ôl ein hanthem genedlaethol).

So what exactly is going on here? Are they trying to somehow incite the Welsh with all those references to bloodshed and conflict, in contrast to the much more benign matter-of-fact English version? It struck me because ‘official’ translations are usually so mechanical and uncreative.

My thoughts on this can be found in this blog post of mine, and in comments to the blog of this observer in Devon. In a nutshell, it’s all a load of bollocks.

Mae’r testun Cymraeg uchod yn rhyw wahanol i’r un Saesneg, dim cyfieithiad syml ydi o … Here’s what the Welsh ‘translation’ actually says, as near as I can get it :

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[It’s] JM, BG and Dr. AJ who follow the epic journey of our DNA — revealing that a high percentage of the population of Wales are descendants of ancient chiefs and princes — the warriors who ‘shed their blood’ according to our national anthem. The research also brought to light a story which caused considerable surprise for a certain manly warrior who battled for the old land of his fathers in the field of sport — but who until now had no idea at all of his royal Welsh roots.
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No mention of ‘genetic clusters’ in the Welsh text, but much play on ‘patriotic’ motifs and being related to noble warriors. I’ll leave it to you to decide if this is just sloppy translation or some more subtle linguistic engineering at work.