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How can the company expect to be paid—for people to even know they are expected to pay—if they send out notices that aren't in the language of the country they're in?
It's in the UK, English is the de facto official language across the country (there doesn't seem to be a law or act making it official) but Welsh has been an official language in Wales (where that story happened) since 2011. So technically it's not like if the company gave tickets written in English in Turkey, but it's still interesting to see someone try to get the region's official language act respected.
England can de fac itself, even if its suppression of Brittonic tongues was de jure.
That's exactly what it's like. English is not the iaith of the pobl or the gwald. It is a foreign tongue. Was it not enough drowning Hafod Fadog, these people now need be drowned in gibberish as well?
If you asked the Parliament to select an official language for the country as a whole what do you think it would be?
I'm not saying it's a bad thing that Welsh is the official language in Wales, but even their act recognizing it as such makes it clear that it's the official language along with English and that both need to be treated as equals, not that Welsh is the only official language.
Why would I ask Westminster a damn thing?