Elis Dafydd

‘Annog pobl ifanc i adael Cymru i fynd i brifysgolion yn tanseilio’r Gymraeg’ Mae un o gynlluniau Llywodraeth Cymru sy’n cefnogi pobl ifanc i adael Cymru i fynd i brifysgol os ydyn nhw am wneud hynny yn tanseilio’r Gymraeg yn ôl un mudiad

Mae prifysgolion Cymru ar eu glinia ac mae’r Gweinidog Addysg yn dal i drio cyfiawnhau gwario hanner biliwn o bunnau bob blwyddyn ar annog pobl ifanc Cymru i beidio astudio ynddyn nhw. Boncyrs.

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Nigel Farage and the political power of English grievance The Conservatives and Labour have allowed resentment to fester in the biggest part of the UK – and the only region not to have its own parliament.

NEWYDD - gan @ailsahenderson.bsky.social a minnau.

NEW by me and my fellow student of Englishness, Prof. Ailsa Henderson.

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Live Tracking Ring O’ Fire Ultra Marathon 2025 - Live Event Tracking

🔥 Shoutout to all the #ultrarunners running a full loop of Ynys Môn (Anglesey) today. You can track their 130 mile journey over the next 55 hours here: 👇

🏃‍♂️ Am y 55 awr nesaf, mae rhedwyr-ultra yn rhedeg o gwmpas yr ynys gyfan! Dilynwch nhw’n fyw:👇

#ultra #ultramarathon #run

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Y beddau a’u gwlych y glaw
prisiau isel eu haddaw
mor hael oedd asda aelaw

The Russell Group is simply a lobby group that has very effectively marketed itself as "the elite" group of UK universities, aided and abetted by willingly stupid journalists, commentators & others. It was simply initially a group of universities with medical schools seeking to sway gov. policy.

'Dawn dweud' a'r ddadl am 'oracy' gwallter.com/cymraeg/dawn...

Pwyll ap Siôn, Menna Baines, Prys Morgan a Pat Griffiths sy’n cofio Geraint Jarman a’i gyfraniad digyffelyb at ddiwylliant Cymru yn rhifyn diweddaraf BARN – mynnwch gopi.

Dictionary entry for Byddin bysgota: an organized gang of salmon poachers (in Pembrokeshire)

New favorite thing: highly specific historical phrases

British Steel employs 3.6k people. Coventry Uni group, which auditors say may not survive, employs 7.7k. But there is an emergency debate in parliament for British Steel and nothing for the whole HE sector imploding

This is good.

Mae ein prifysgolion yn wynebu argyfwng. Nid prinder arian o'r pwrs cyhoeddus yw hanfod y broblem yn ôl ein colofnydd gwleidyddol, ond diffyg ewyllys Llywodraeth Cymru i wario'r arian hwnnw mewn modd mwy dyfeisgar a strategol Gymreig. Darllenwch erthygl @richardwynjones.bsky.social yn BARN Ebrill.

Athol Fugard, South African political dissident playwright, dies aged 92 A giant of political drama, Fugard captured the injustices of apartheid in works such as Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island

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The UK and the US have generally been seen as having gold standard university systems - maybe the best in the world. Both countries are now actively working to change that.

Running British universities as if they were businesses Our universities used to be among the few British institutions that the rest of the world really did envy. But from 2010 the Coalition was d...

New commentary on Britain's university crisis today, from @lordbonkers.bsky.social: why would you run Britain's universities like businesses? Many UK businesses are rubbish, and they certainly haven't stood the test of time like HE...
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Chwilio am ffordd o esbonio'r gair 'bro'? Allwch chi wneud yn waeth nag awgrymu darllen 'Nelan a Bo', nofel ddiddarach Angharad Price. gwallter.com/cymraeg/nela...

Diolch, David!

Gweddnewidiadau - Ysgrifau Beirniadol XXXV Mae'r gyfrol yn archwilio gwahanol agweddau ar lên a diwylliant y Gymraeg yn benna, ond o sawl gogwydd gwahanol. Dyma gyfrol sy'n llawn 'gweddnewidiadau' i gyfres Ysgrifau Beirniadol - un a fydd yn ta...

Eitem ddifyr iawn gan @elisdafydd.bsky.social yn Ysgrifau Beirniadol XXXV: "Cyfieithydd: swydd cachu rwtsh"
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We’re seeing the end of the long 20th century From the crumbling of liberal democracy to epochal shifts in culture, tech and relationships, a page in history has turned

"The 20th century was the greatest age of reading the world has ever known: newspapers, magazines, self-help books, popular classics, airport bestsellers. Literacy is now declining for the first time on record": @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social on a disappearing world www.thetimes.com/article/0f9f... [£]

I was lost in the cesspit of social media. Then Jane Austen showed me the way out Why spend every evening fighting trolls on X when you could be working your way through the greats of literature? No more online rage, recriminations, doom-scrolling …

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Five years on from the Charlie Hebdo attack, ‘Je suis Charlie’ rings hollow Charlie Hebdo’s often biting and dark humour frequently troubles people in France, and many reactions to the attack in France were not in keeping with the values of the publication.

Today marks the tenth anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris. Here's a look back at an article I wrote for @uk.theconversation.com in 2020 about how the 'Je suis Charlie' sentiment was already starting to ring hollow then
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lovely piece on the threat AI poses to book translation, which doubles as an ode to translators: www.ft.com/content/3dff...

Pennill Dic Jones ar gychwyn hunangofiant Gerallt Lloyd Owen, ‘Fy Nghawl fy Hun’.

TLS Awst 18/25 2023, 6281/2.

Wedi cymryd oes i ail-ddod o hyd i’r dyfyniad isod felly dyma’i rannu yma. Gwahoddiad agored Haris Pašović ar ran ‘Grŵp Goroesi Artistig Sarajevo’ a anfonwyd at Susan Sontag yn ystod y Gwarchae.

(Sgrinlun o erthygl Amber Massie-Blomfield yn y TLS y llynedd.)

Mae Bullshit Jobs yn llyfr wnaeth argraff fawr arna i ac mi helpodd fi i ddeall pam mae cyfieithu i gyngor sir yn swydd mor ddiflas! Mi fydd ysgrif gen i’n trafod ‘swyddi cachu rwtsh’ a’r diwydiant cyfieithu yn ymddangos cyn bo hir.

Braf gweld bod @cylchgrawn-barn.bsky.social wedi cyrraedd y Lle Hwn! Ewch i ddarllen adolygiad Simon Brooks o gyfrol deyrnged Gwynn Matthews yn y rhifyn cyfredol. Craff a dadleuol.

Teyrnged wych i Waldo. Dw i’n siŵr y byddai o wrth ei fodd — roedd ei hoffter o o enwau uniaith Saesneg a chynhyrchu cyfalaf yn ddiarhebol.

Ateb y Galw: Non Mererid Jones Wrth iddi gyhoeddi ei nofel gyntaf un, Non Mererid Jones sy'n Ateb y Galw yr wythnos hon

Mae Dr Non Mererid Jones wedi ymuno â’r Oriel o Anfarwolion ag ydyw Ateb y Galw BBC Cymru Fyw!

Dilynwch y ddolen isod er mwyn dod i’w hadnabod yn well.

Gair am Nicanor Parra: mathemategydd a ffisegydd o Chile. Roedd o’n ei alw’i hun yn ‘wrth-fardd’ ac yn gorffen ei ddarlleniadau cyhoeddus drwy ddweud ‘dw i’n cymryd popeth ddywedais i yn ôl’.

Neges gyntaf yma i ddweud bod fy erthygl ar hamddena, ieuenctid a rhywedd yng Nghymru'r 1920 a 1930au ar gael yn rhifyn newydd y Traethodydd (clawr ffansi hefyd). Son am bethe fel ffasiwn, dawnsio, dillad a diwylliant ieuenctid Cymraeg y cyfnod ag ymateb awduron, beirdd a nofelwyr iddynt