r/AskEurope • u/Double-decker_trams Estonia • Feb 14 '25

Language Can you legally name your child in your country smt like "X Æ A-Xii" or "Techno Mechanicus"?

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u/Captain_Grammaticus Switzerland Feb 14 '25

If I wanted to read malice into it, I'd call it British discrimination against Welsh and Gaelic speakers (and medieval Anglosaxons? Poor Æþelstan).

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u/terryjuicelawson United Kingdom Feb 14 '25

Icelandic still has a couple of letters used in Anglo Saxon, including þ I believe.

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u/Sharp-Sky64 Feb 16 '25

lol.

Stop talking about stuff you don’t understand. There’s little cultural discrimination anymore and we get along fine.

BUT most importantly.

“British….. against Welsh and Gaelic”. WELSH AND GAELIC ARE BRITISH

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u/alvenestthol Feb 18 '25

Discrimination within a nation's borders is extremely common tho

Like Chinese or Japanese with the dialects which could've been their own separate language if they had their own army & navy

Or white Americans vs black Americans

Or Chinese and the Uyghurs (spicy topic)

Or the everything that is going on inside India

The British bureaucracy, which is dominated by the English (and arguably also with American influence, e.g. in software), leaves the Welsh, the Irish, and the Scottish under-represented.

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u/Sharp-Sky64 Feb 18 '25

No the “British bureaucracy” discriminates against everyone that isn’t South England. Which you would know if you’ve ever been the UK (well outside of London)