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Re: [OM] IMG: Cardiff and Carmarthen

Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Cardiff and Carmarthen
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 20:01:20 -0400
Thanks for the tour.  My wife and I were in that area in the 80s in 
pursuit of some genealogical data from her mother's Welsh side.  We 
weren't very successful in that endeavor but did see a lot of very fine 
scenery... but not including most of what you showed us.

But you've posed a language mystery.  Perhaps someone who speaks Welsh 
can answer.  If you read the sign here 
<http://www.frozenlight.eu/cardiff082013/content/20130831-_DSF3952_large.html> 
and look at the estimated time for Canon y dref/Town centre by bike (at 
upper left) you'll see the abbreviation for 2 minutes as "2 fun".  But 
estimates of more than 2 minutes all use the abbreviation "mun" rather 
than "fun".  If I ask Google to translate 2 minutes I get 2 funud.  If I 
ask any other number (including 1 and 3) I get munud rather than funud.

So, what's unique about 2 minutes that it gets its own word for minute? 
Something tells me the translator isn't telling me all about the language.

Chuck Norcutt


On 9/8/2013 3:32 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Finally finished processing my pictures from the week in Wales, and the 
> resulting gallery is here:
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> http://www.frozenlight.eu/cardiff082013/
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> Mostly from Cardiff Bay since that is where we were most of the time, 
> although there are also a couple from Cardiff centre and from the town of 
> Carmarthen, 70 miles to the west. Cardiff Bay is the city's waterfront. Like 
> in many other cities, it had become a seedy area during the 1970 and 80s but 
> has been completely transformed in recent years.
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> As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
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> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
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> YNWA
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