Skip to content

Eh?

Welsh rapper dropped from festival for singing in English
Bilingual artist says he refused to change his set for the cultural event, which celebrates the Welsh language

I thought the point of rap was that it wasn’t singing?

7 thoughts on “Eh?”

  1. As Jon Pertwee explained in a Goidies episode, the word Eisteddford is detived from the words
    Eistedd = bored
    Fford = stiff

  2. I had to re-read the snippet. I thought the rapper was dropped for refusing to sign in Welsh. I then wondered if every country has their own version of sign language. So that would lead to multiple people standing next to a speaker signing in loads of different languages.

    Then I re-read the snippet and realised I was wrong.

  3. Different countries do have different sign languages – and since sign languages are totally different to spoken to different languages, not just a way of encoding a spoken language into visible actions, you can even get two English-speaking countries with totally different sign languages. But you can’t “sign in Welsh”.

Comments are closed.

Can you help support The Blog? If you can spare a few pounds you can donate to our fundraising campaign below. All donations are greatly appreciated and go towards our server, securityĀ and software costs.Ā 25,000Ā people per day read our sites andĀ every penny goes towards our fight against for independent journalism. We don't take a wage and do what we do because we enjoy it and hope our readers enjoy it too.