#cylch

Dydd Santes Dwynwen Hapus! Dyma delweddau i gael dathliad bach LHDT+ o’r diwrnod cariadon Cymraeg.

Happy St. Dwynwen’s Day! Here are images I’ve seen and wanted to share to queerly celebrate the Welsh day of lovers.

1. Gwnewch Bopeth yn Gymraeg. (Do Everything in Welsh) O’r gylchlythyr ‘Draig Binc’ gan CYLCH, 1994, wedi liwio yn diweddaraf. From ‘Draig Binc’ (Pink Dragon), the newsletter of the Welsh gay group CYLCH, 1994, colourized later.

2. Llwy Caru / Welsh lovespoon. O’r Amgueddfa Genedlaethol - “Efallai taw enw'r gwneuthurwr oedd John, neu a gafodd ei wneud gan ddyn i ddangos ei gariad at ddyn arall?” From the National Museum of Wales - “Was the maker called John? Or was it made by a man to show his love for another man?” @museumwales

Y Ddraig Binc, Rhif 4, Haf 1994.

‘Gwnewch BOPETH yn Gymraeg’: poster CYLCH o 1994.

My 'object' for gallery one isn't exactly an object, it's languages, (hence the title). Languages are something I find incredibly interesting and important, everything from dialects and the evolution and devolution of language to the ever developing definition of words. It's something I spend a long time thinking, reading and talking about and something which, I believe, is often overlooked. We take language for granted, we rarely think about what it was, what it will be, or even what it is, despite the fact we use and consume it daily. And rather than prattle about the difference between 'you' and 'thou' in Shakespearian english, I'll explain my idea. 

At first it was hard to think of a way to represent language, I didn't really want to just represent a single language and I didn't want to confine it to only one aspect either. After brainstorming at a Cylch meeting, I started to see ways to combine the aspects of language that I wished to represent. One of these was to possibly display an english exam paper written in text-speak or a Shakespearean play, yet again written in text-speak. Thereby combining 'classic' english with a more modern version (evolution of language yo).

Another idea was to fill a dictionary with words that have been removed from past dictionaries or, you guessed it, text-speak and slang, and whilst I didn't want to just focus on one language in specific, I did find an interesting timeline showing how the english language became what it is today. 

I really liked this idea of a timeline, either one focusing on a particular language and showing it's evolution or one focusing on the evolution of language as a whole. Trying to show the evolution of language as a whole would mean showing the progress from spoken word to cave paintings, from hieroglyphics to Chaucer's english, and then to english today, with lots of steps in between. I'd also like to include either slang or text-speak or possibly even a guess at how language will develop in the future, so as to come full circle.  

Un o’r pethau y daethais ar ei draws yn ddiweddar oedd Cylch Emosiwn Plutchik ar wefan Swiss Miss. Mae’n dangos yr amrywiad o emosioynau a sut maent wedi eu cysylltu. [...] Dwi wedi ceisio creu cylch fy hun gydag enwau Cymraeg yr emosiynau.