Posted on 06/06/2023 5:08:32 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
I think about three of the guys I. Band of Brothers were from UK. In fact the guy who played Dick Winter graduated from Eton.
Sorry but being in a cesspool called Hollywood, I'll pass. 🤓
Edward II only spoke no English at birth. By the time he was a youth, I am sure he was perfectly fluent. (There is no direct evidence that Richard I, CÅ“ur de Lion, raised in Norman castles in England, spoke English. He composed poems in Latin and Occitan, but none in English that have come down to us.)
Don’t care who plays as a Welshman as long as they can sing and play rugby.
The Scottish are the same, but you don’t hear the Cornish getting all antsy.
BTW, does it work the other way, too? Sir Richard Burton, a Welshman, played Petruchio in the Taming of the Shrew, and he’s not even Italian.
“Edward II only spoke no English at birth.”
Lol. Neither did you or I.
Sheen is most famous for playing Tony Blair, an Englishman (or maybe a Scotsman if you go back far enough, but by no means a Welshman) and Martin Whitley, a fictional American murderer (also not Welsh), in a Fox series.
Sheen is most best known for playing Tony Blair, an Englishman (or maybe a Scotsman if you go back far enough, but by no means a Welshman) and perhaps Martin Whitley, a fictional American murderer (also not Welsh), in a Fox series.
..while we are at it Anthony Hopkins another Welshman. Should he a allowed to play serial killers?
“(There is no direct evidence that Richard I, CÅ“ur de Lion, raised in Norman castles in England, spoke English.”
Richard Coer de Lion died in 1199. If you measure the birth of English as a language from the writing of the Canterbury Tales in 1387 (or was it 1400?), there was no English to speak in 1199, nor in the days of Edward II. There was an informal mish-mosh of Norman French and Saxon German along with a few other languages, but no body of literature as of yet.
Yeah, dammit! Why didn’t a real serial killer get the role?
Those Welshmen should stick to mining their own anthracite. And how come he has no beef with the “Welshmen” in Zulu. Were they really Welsh, or just good singers?
Well actually two members of cast were Welshman. Stanly Baker who played the role of Lt. Chard, who was awarded VC, and Ivor Emmanuel who played the role of Private Owen who sang lead in “Men of Harlech.”
There was “Anglo-Saxon”, and Beowulf dates to the Seventh Century. There was clearly writing in Anglo-Saxon at least from the Seventh Century, and an English alphabet, though no clear single dominant dialect, but late West Saxon became dominant. Chaucer is considered Middle English, Beowulf Old-English or Anglo-Saxon. Shakespeare is considered early modern English, though much of his language is archaic today.
“I see no reason why the title should continue. Certainly not with someone who’s not Welsh.”
Well, the reason is because you got conquered. So your crown is no longer in the hands of the Welsh.
Eats a decent amount of fish though, I hear.
I was gonna say. He may have forgotten the sarc tag. Maybe he thought he didn’t need it.
That fits. Better than my second thought: Prince of Wells.
Or maybe Prince of ‘Wales? (Short for gunwales).
after 722 years maybe they could withdraw the troops.
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