Meaning of Scymraeg | Babel Free

Definitions

Badly written or ungrammatical Welsh, often written with machine translation.

informal

Examples

“Soon the term Scymraeg, or scummy Welsh, was born and it has really caught on - it is part of Gary's stand-up routine, and examples are posted via a Twitter hashtag and in a Flickr group.”

“And Google Translate⟳—infamous since 2009 for its Scymraeg, or scummy Welsh—has, according to the BBC, recently taken a great leap⟳ forward⟳ in terms of the accuracy and quality of its Welsh translations.”

““Witcher Welsh” and Scymraeg share⟳ the same problem: well-meaning people trying to use⟳ Welsh without taking it seriously.”

“I’m pissing in the wind here, obviously, but this isn’t some funny “Scymraeg” scenario, this is public money being spent on a bilingual website that only works in English.”

CEFR level