Ok so your post about the emergency alert reminded me of something VERY FUNNY about it which is that a) my parents also live where there's currently lots of fire, we could see it from the party they threw at the weekend and b) they live in Wales, and so had a slightly different experience of the alert.
Now, the thing about Wales is that *by law* all official government communication must be bilingual. Which means that in Wales, everyone got 2 alerts: one in welsh, and one in english.
Unfortunately, by law the welsh must happen *first*, and so the whole of wales got the fire alert in Welsh: A language that approximately 5% of the population speak well enough to actually understand what was going on.
So imagine, the emergency alert noise goes off. You open your phone. And the most *incomprehensible* collection of letters appear to you. You live in wales, so you know what Welsh looks like, but this is not the vocabulary that you usually see at the train station or on the letter from the council. And it's the emergency alert system. It's probably both Important and Urgent
So people all over Wales are using google lense or whatever to try and get a translations of this alert because this is clearly something Life Threatening. A frantic five minutes for the whole country.
And then the alert arrives in English.
Of course, now the joke is that this is how they force the Welsh Language on people: by making it clear that only Welsh Speakers will be saved from the atom bomb.
this is one of the funniest things i have Ever heard. as someone who grew up in cornwall, which desperately wants to be wales in terms of language and independence but simply doesnt have the push, imagining a universe in which i receive a kernow-only emergency text that is functionally meaningless to me but still sends the terrifying sirens off on your phone to make you think there's a bomb threat is kind of the premise of a horror movie . and that really is how they motivate u to revive a dead language
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