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Diolch yn fawr, Motherfucker! Great minds think alike.

by Manuel | | April 14th, 2009 | Manuel, columns & rants, videos

About two weeks ago, I found on one of my ‘every day “youtube journeys”‘ the wonderful videochannel of the fantastic “Sophie Brown”, who’s videos are not only charming to watch, but also fun to watch. After contacting her on “Myspace”, something like – I might almost say – friendship began to grow. Even though this friendship couldn’t have been more difficult to accomplish. Oh, don’t get me wrong, not our personal tastes in film – music and books (which is – to my suprise – pretty similar), nor the distance (she’s an english girl living in wales – doesn’t that sound romantic?) was the biggest problem. It was the language.

No-no-no, my english is pretty good (I hope) and so is – of course – hers. But one day, without knowing what horryfying thing might crawl over my body – eating my sins and feeding me with shame – eyes all red, I was caught by suprise (and total horror!) as she threw a single, tiny word into our conversation – ugly, dark and cynical as one word could possibly be. I didn’t know where it comes from, or what this god forsaken misnomer even means. But saying that Rydw was the – by far – single most disturbing thing I have ever read in my entire life, would be an understatement.

Naive, as I was, I didn’t really know that “welsh” is, in fact, a real existing language. I thought it might just be one hell of a british accent, true, with many unique words thrown in. But that’s, in the end, austrian- and swiss-german too… I had no Idea. So Sophie, this wunderful wonderful person… and I, this – well – austrian guy with a thick accent, made a deal. The deal was simple enough. She teachses me the welsh slang for “Thank You Very Much” in one of her vlogs, but therefor, I have to make my own vlog (teh utter horror!) in which I say it myself as good as I can while teaching her – at the same time (!!) – how to pronounce my name. Sounds simple enough? It might have been, if I wouldn’t take it so gosh darn serious – d’oh.

So, be warned to get amazed, when “Crazy Austrian Guy” does what he does worst – speaking english while trying to control his accent. Oh well, at least I’m no “Schwarzenegger”.

Sophie’s Vlog: