{"id":11496,"date":"2022-08-14T10:20:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T10:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=11496"},"modified":"2022-08-15T09:24:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T09:24:06","slug":"welsh-language-payment-machine-baffles-monoglots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=11496","title":{"rendered":"Welsh language payment machine baffles monoglots"},"content":{"rendered":",\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11505\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/08\/maes_parcio.png\" alt=\"Bilingual Welsh\/English pay and display sign\" width=\"153\" height=\"104\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhyl\">Rhyl<\/a> on the North Wales coast attracts many non-Welsh-speaking visitors to its golden sands (<em>your &#8216;umble scribe was once a regular visitor there as a child since our Sunday school outings all went there. Ed.<\/em>) and views of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liverpool_Bay\">Liverpool Bay<\/a> wind farms. However, its council-run car parks have pay and display machines set to Welsh as the default language; and this has been frustrating those who cannot read, speak or understand even basic instructions in Welsh, as <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.cymru\/news\/tempers-fray-as-car-park-ticket-machine-only-gives-instructions-in-welsh\/\">yesterday&#8217;s Nation Cymru reports<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>According to the article, &#8220;<em>Queues developed as non-Welsh speakers struggled to work out how to pay for their parking at Rhyl\u2019s central underground car park near the promenade, which is administered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denbighshire.gov.uk\/\">Denbighshire County Council<\/a>.<\/em>&#8221;\r\n<\/p><p>Furthermore, the council&#8217;s machinery also seemed to have difficulty recognising bank debit cards.<\/p>\r\n<p>A local with basic Welsh fluency described the experience of one monoglot: &#8220;The man stormed off when the machine repeatedly failed to accept his bank card. \u2018Why are the instructions only in Welsh. Not many people in Rhyl speak Welsh\u2019.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p>A spokesperson for the local authority defended the default Welsh language option, stating:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>We would like to remind people that there are two other machines available in the Rhyl Central car park and people can use the pay-by-phone smartphone app with location code 804281 as an alternative way of paying.<br \/>\r\nOur pay and display machines default to Welsh, but there is a large grey \u201clanguage button\u201d that people can press to change the language. This is explained on the machines.<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Perhaps grey is not a suitable colour for the language button; perhaps the council need to change this to red and white in the style of the English flag or red, white and blue in the style of the Bloody Butcher&#8217;s Apron (<em>which some still call the Union Jack or Union flag. Ed.<\/em>). \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\r\n<p><strong><em>Update 15\/08\/22:<\/em><\/strong> Monday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.cymru\/news\/complaints-about-second-parking-machine-in-bloody-welsh-even-though-english-a-pressed-button-away\/\">Nation Cymru has yet another story<\/a> on the inability of users to operate a second parking machine \u2018<em>in bloody Welsh<\/em>\u2019, this time from the other end of the country, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitswanseabay.com\/inspirations\/beach-guide\/caswell-bay-beach\/\">Caswell Bay, on the Gower peninsula near Swansea<\/a>.<\/p> \r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>, Rhyl on the North Wales coast attracts many non-Welsh-speaking visitors to its golden sands (your &#8216;umble scribe was once a regular visitor there as a child since our Sunday school outings all went there. Ed.) and views of the Liverpool Bay wind farms. However, its council-run car parks have pay and display machines set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32],"tags":[16,22,33],"class_list":["post-11496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11496"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11515,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11496\/revisions\/11515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}