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Kelly Courtez's avatar

Nick, I'm bad with accents but...🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿?

Nick Sinclair's avatar

How did you know I’m Welsh? Haha. Yeah, proper Welsh here. Not quite from the valleys. I’m originally from Swansea. Now I live in a proper Welsh town called Llanelli.

How about you, were you from Kelly? Also I love the second name. Just conjures images of Spanish conquistadors in my head. 😊

Kelly Courtez's avatar

Lol@you explaining Llanelli like I don't know where that is! 😂😂😂 Omg Nick! I'm literally in Swansea lol From Gowerton

Nick Sinclair's avatar

I forgot to say, your lucky ‘Voss I almost tried to explain how to pronounce the two LLs in llanelli. Haha I was wracking my brain for while.

I thought, hmm, it’s sounds. Bit like that hissing sound a cat makes when they are upset. But with more of an L sound to it.

Yeah. Total crap. That was the best I could do.

Kelly Courtez's avatar

😂😂 My mother's English. She pronounces it Lan-elli (no spitting mouth sounds with the ll) 😂 so I know what you mean about explaining that

Nick Sinclair's avatar

I had a Welsh grand father who pronounced it like that. So I sometimes thing not even the Welsh know how to say their place name. Hehe. 😊

Kelly Courtez's avatar

We're just making it up 😂

Nick Sinclair's avatar

Shut up! I can’t believe it. Of all the places in the world you are literally 15 minutes from me. 😊👍

What the hell! That is incredible the world is such a small place.

I drive down there all the time to go for spins down the Gower.

Keep an eye out for an orange Seat Arona.

I was originally from Fforstfach, in Swansea near Tescos.

Kelly Courtez's avatar

No way! How mad is that. I think the Substack Al-Gore-Rhythm brought us together so we'd have a friend amongst all the Americans 😂

Nick Sinclair's avatar

We do indeed. I can’t believe it. I can’t even remember the Substack. I just remember your writing.

The writing is great. But my god, your voice is incredible. You have captured the Welsh fire!

Where did you learn to write like that. To have such confidence in your voice?

Kelly Courtez's avatar

Omg thats a huge compliment, thank you Nick. I think it's a mix of love for reading, practise, and being kind of shy and quiet 😂

I studied English lit at uni and all those books show you what's possible with the voice, all different kinds. I used to freelance for blogs and ebooks. Got burnout and hated it in the end so now I need to voice myself to stay sane lol. When you're quiet, people LOVE to speak over you or bombard you with their opinions without caring about yours. I'm too old now to let that slide so if I can't say what I want to them, I'll say it though my writing, I feel better for it too, and I guess that comes out through the voice?

Also, fuck it 😂 the best works I've read were written by fearless writers.

If you want some help, or just talk though some things, you're welcome to DM :)