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