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	<title>Blog Carl Morris &#187; eisteddfod</title>
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		<title>Cwestiynu&#8217;r gystadleuaeth blog Eisteddfod Gen</title>
		<link>http://quixoticquisling.com/2012/03/eisteddfod-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl Morris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beth yw&#8217;r gwahaniaethau rhwng traethawd a chofnod blog? Cyd-destun, cyfrwng sef cyfrwng o drosglwyddiad o&#8217;r awdur i&#8217;r darllenwyr, hyd yn oed defnydd o gyfryngau gwahanol fel fideo, lluniau, awdio a dolenni. Ac yn aml iawn mae sylwadau dan y cofnod blog. Dw i ddim yn siwr os ydy&#8217;r Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yn sylweddoli&#8217;r gwahaniaethau yma. Ar gyfer [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Beth yw&#8217;r gwahaniaethau rhwng traethawd a chofnod blog?</p>
<p>Cyd-destun, cyfrwng sef cyfrwng o drosglwyddiad o&#8217;r awdur i&#8217;r darllenwyr, hyd yn oed defnydd o gyfryngau gwahanol fel fideo, lluniau, awdio a dolenni. Ac yn aml iawn mae sylwadau dan y cofnod blog.</p>
<p>Dw i ddim yn siwr os ydy&#8217;r Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yn sylweddoli&#8217;r gwahaniaethau yma. Ar gyfer y gystadleuaeth blogio eleni (am y trydedd neu pedwaredd blywyddyn dw i&#8217;n credu?) mae&#8217;n rhaid <em>sgwennu</em> cyfres o draethawdau, yn hytrach nag unrhyw fynegiant arall fel fideo ayyb:</p>
<blockquote><p>165. Blog amserol<br />
Cyfres o flogiau wedi’u hysgrifennu yn ystod mis Mawrth 2012 heb fod dros 3,000 o eiriau<br />
Gwobr: £200 (o&#8217;r <a href="http://www.eisteddfod.org.uk/uploads/publications/736.pdf">PDF</a>)</p></blockquote>
<p>Maen nhw yn derbyn rhywbeth printiedig ar bapur neu ar USB. Fyddan nhw ddim yn derbyn dolen at rywbeth ar y we. Mewn gwirionedd fydd cofnod blog sydd ar y we eisoes ddim yn ddilys fel cais! Y person cyntaf (oc olaf?) i&#8217;w ddarllen ac i&#8217;w werthfawrogi fydd Betsan Powys, y beirniad.</p>
<p>Mae&#8217;n edrych fel cyfle coll i dyfu&#8217;r grefft o flogio yn Gymraeg lle y dylai fe fod, sef <em>ar y we</em>.</p>
<p><em>DIWEDDARIAD: Diolch i Rhys Wynne am fy helpu i gyda gramadeg.</em></p>
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		<title>Gwybodaeth rydd ac Amcan X</title>
		<link>http://quixoticquisling.com/2011/08/gwybodaeth-rydd-ac-amcan-x/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl Morris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dw i ddim wedi bod yn cysylltiedig iawn yn ystod yr Eisteddfod. Dw i&#8217;n meddwl bydd fideo o&#8217;r sesiwn Hacio&#8217;r Iaith yn stondin Prifysgol Aberystwyth ar gael ar y we. Yn y cyfamser hoffwn i sgwennu ymateb i&#8217;r cwestiwn yma: @elinhgj @Nwdls @carlmorris Dwi ddim, felly, yn rhy siwr beth yw pwrpas y rhestr? Er [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dw i ddim wedi bod yn cysylltiedig iawn yn ystod yr Eisteddfod. Dw i&#8217;n meddwl bydd fideo o&#8217;r <a href="http://haciaith.com/2011/07/27/hacior-iaith-eisteddfod-genedlaethol-2011-ac-augmented-reality/">sesiwn Hacio&#8217;r Iaith yn stondin Prifysgol Aberystwyth</a> ar gael ar y we.</p>
<p>Yn y cyfamser hoffwn i sgwennu ymateb i&#8217;r cwestiwn yma:</p>
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<p>Tipyn bach o gyd-destun. Roedden ni&#8217;n hoffi&#8217;r opsiynau eraill ond doedden nhw ddim yn digon:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://blogsearch.google.com">Google Blog Search</a> &#8211; bron pob blog ar y we ond ble mae&#8217;r blogiau Cymraeg? Anodd i&#8217;w ffeindio os ti eisiau pori &#8211; mae stwff Cymraeg ar goll. Dyma un angen enfawr yn Gymraeg ac ieithoedd bychan &#8211; uno darnau o&#8217;r we gyda&#8217;i gilydd.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogiadur.com">Blogiadur</a> &#8211; &#8216;blog o flogiau&#8217; gyda blogiau Cymraeg (88 blog ar hyn o bryd). Trefnwyd yn ôl amser.</li>
<li>awgrymiadau gan ffrindiau &#8211; &#8216;ar hap&#8217;</li>
<li>dolenni mewn ebost/gwefannau eraill &#8211; &#8216;ar hap&#8217;</li>
</ul>
<p>Nawr mae gyda ni:</p>
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<li><a href="http://hedyn.net/wici/Y_Rhestr">Y Rhestr ar Hedyn!</a> &#8211; cyfeirlyfr o flogiau Cymraeg! Trefnwyd yn ôl pynciau! Chwilio!</li>
</ul>
<p>Mae&#8217;r cwestiwn yn dilys, pam ydyn <a href="http://hedyn.net/index.php?title=Arbennig:ListUsers&amp;limit=500">ni</a> wedi bod yn treulio amser i gasglu Yellow Pages o flogiau?</p>
<p><strong>Dilyn</strong><strong>.</strong> Rydyn ni wedi bod yn chwilio am flogiau yn yr iaith Gymraeg fel darllenwyr/ymwelwyr. Pam ddarllen/dilyn/edrych at/gwylio/gwrando ar/tanysgrifio i flogiau? Newyddion, digwyddiadau lleol, barnau, fideo, hwyl, ymgyrchu, coginio, hobïau a diddordebau ayyb ayyb &#8211; beth bynnag mae pobol yn ei drafod o ddydd i ddydd.</p>
<p><strong>Ychwanegu blogiau i&#8217;r strwythur o ddolenni.</strong> Mae lot o flogiau yn anweledig i ryw raddau. Mae un dolen arall yn anfon ymwelwyr dynol a bots fel Google.</p>
<p><strong>Ymchwil ac ystadegau.</strong> Mae rhai o bobol eisiau astudio&#8217;r (tua) 288 blog Cymraeg ar y we. Dw i&#8217;n meddwl am waith academaidd gan Daniel Cunliffe, Courtenay Honeycutt ac eraill yma (<a href="http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/%7Eclhoneyc/homepage/papers/blogiadur-final.doc">a&#8217;u papur am flogiau Cymraeg ar Blogiadur</a>). Hefyd mae&#8217;r Rhestr yn sgil-cynnyrch o&#8217;n gwaith a dw i eisiau anfon mas y neges am rhannu stwff fel &#8216;na.</p>
<p><strong>Cofnodi ac hanes.</strong> Mae lot o bwyslais ar amser real a chofnodion newydd (gweler hefyd: Twitter). Gwych ond beth am fywyd i&#8217;r &#8216;hen&#8217; cynnwys sydd dal yn berthnasol i rywun? Beth am y blogiau sy&#8217;n cysgu?</p>
<p><strong>Dysgwyr iaith a datblygiad personol o&#8217;r iaith.</strong> Mae lot fawr o ddysgwyr ar y we. Yn aml iawn maen nhw yn mynd i&#8217;r we i weld Cymraeg &#8211; yn enwedig dysgwyr heb lot o ffrindiau Cymraeg a dysgwyr tu allan i Gymru.<strong></strong> Mae hynny yn hawdd iawn i&#8217;w anghofio os ti&#8217;n nofio yn Gymraeg fel siaradwr rhugl.</p>
<p><strong>Amcan X</strong></p>
<p>Amcan X yw&#8217;r rheswm pwysicaf. Mewn ffordd does dim ots beth oedd tarddiad Y Rhestr neu Hedyn. Efallai mae amcanion yr <a href="http://hedyn.net/index.php?title=Arbennig:ListUsers&amp;limit=500">aelodau/cyfranwyr</a> yn ddiddorol i ti, efallai ddim. Mae&#8217;r wybodaeth Y Rhestr ar gael i bawb yn y byd beth bynnag.</p>
<p>Mae&#8217;r wybodaeth am ddim <em>ac yn rhydd</em>.</p>
<p>Gweler hefyd: <a href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/05/14/freedom-0">rhyddid sero</a> gyda meddalwedd rydd.</p>
<p>Bydd e&#8217;n neis cael teclynnau sy&#8217;n dibynnu ar y data <em>mewn</em> blogiau hefyd. Mae unrhyw un yn gallu bwydo ei dogfen neu taenlen/dogfen gyda data o&#8217;r Rhestr. Cer amdani. Neu meddalwedd &#8211; er enghraifft, peiriaint chwilio o flogiau Cymraeg. Dw i&#8217;n meddwl am Blogiadur ar hyn o bryd &#8211; mae Aran Jones wedi anfon yr allwedd i fi. Oes angen rhywbeth fel <a href="http://cy.umap.eu">Umap</a> neu <a href="http://indigenoustweets.com/cy/">Indigenous Tweets</a> ar gyfer blogiau? Beth yw&#8217;r pynciau poeth heddiw?</p>
<p>Syniad. Efallai mae rhywun eisiau dadansoddi geiriau neu dermau ayyb ar blogiau gwahanol neu gynnwys y trafodaethau, e.e. pleidiau a phethau gwleidyddol.</p>
<p>Mae popeth yn dibynnu ar breuddwydion, gwaith, diddordebau a chreadigrwydd. Argraffa crys-t neu cylchgrawn gyda chynnwys Hedyn os ti eisiau. <a href="http://hedyn.net/wici/Sgwrs:Hafan#Cynnig:_newid_trwydded_Hedyn">(Gyda llaw gawn ni newid y drwydded i rywbeth mwyaf agored?)</a></p>
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		<title>Pa fath o ddigwyddiad fydd Eisteddfod Treganna?</title>
		<link>http://quixoticquisling.com/2011/05/pa-fath-o-ddigwyddiad-fydd-eisteddfod-treganna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl Morris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rydyn ni&#8217;n cynllunio Eisteddfod yng Nghaerdydd, yn Nhreganna, gyda lot o bobol eraill, benywod a dynion. Croeso i ti gymryd rhan. Ond pa fath o ddigwyddiad fydd Eisteddfod Treganna? Sut ydyn ni gallu cydbwyso gydag elfennau traddodiadol a phethau cyfoes? Rydyn ni eisiau &#8220;cynrychioli&#8217;r gymuned&#8221; felly beth ddylen ni wneud? Dyma rhai o&#8217;r meddyliau gan [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright" title="Eisteddfod Treganna" src="/pics/eisteddfod-treganna-gan-huw-aaron-bach.jpg" alt="Eisteddfod Treganna" width="300" height="264" />Rydyn ni&#8217;n cynllunio Eisteddfod yng Nghaerdydd, yn Nhreganna, gyda lot o bobol eraill, benywod a dynion. Croeso i ti gymryd rhan. Ond pa fath o ddigwyddiad fydd Eisteddfod Treganna? Sut ydyn ni gallu cydbwyso gydag elfennau traddodiadol a phethau cyfoes? Rydyn ni eisiau &#8220;cynrychioli&#8217;r gymuned&#8221; felly beth ddylen ni wneud?</p>
<p>Dyma rhai o&#8217;r meddyliau gan <a href="http://colinnosworthy.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/yetifeddiaeth/">Colin</a> a fi (darlledwyd yn wreiddiol ar <a href="http://shwmae.com">Shwmae</a> mis diwethaf).</p>
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<p>Os oes gyda ti diddordeb, cer i&#8217;r <a href="http://treganna.org">wefan treganna.org</a>, hoffi&#8217;r <a href="https://www.facebook.com/eisteddfodtreganna">tudalen Facebook</a>, neu dilyna&#8217;r cyfrif <a href="http://twitter.com/NiYwTreganna">Twitter</a>.</p>
<p><em>logo gan <a href="http://huwaaron.com/blog/2011/03/18/eisteddfod-treganna/">Huw Aaron</a></em></p>
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		<title>Y we, technoleg a meddalwedd yn Eisteddfod Glyn Ebwy 2010</title>
		<link>http://quixoticquisling.com/2010/08/y-we-technoleg-a-meddalwedd-yn-eisteddfod-glyn-ebwy-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl Morris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dyn ni wedi cyhoeddi lot o gofnodion am bethau technolegol yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol, Glyn Ebwy eleni. Ydyn ni wedi anghofio unrhyw beth? Gadawa sylw. Yn anffodus, wnes i colli&#8217;r trafodaeth cyfryngau cymdeithasol yn y pabell Prifysgol Aberystwyth bore dydd Mawrth. (Annwyl pawb, gawn ni recordiad am unrhyw sesiwn trafodaeth technoleg yn y dyfodol os gwelwch [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://haciaith.com/tag/eisteddfod+2010/">Dyn ni wedi cyhoeddi lot o gofnodion am bethau technolegol yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol, Glyn Ebwy eleni.</a> Ydyn ni wedi anghofio unrhyw beth? Gadawa sylw.</p>
<p>Yn anffodus, wnes i colli&#8217;r trafodaeth cyfryngau cymdeithasol yn y pabell Prifysgol Aberystwyth bore dydd Mawrth. (Annwyl pawb, gawn ni recordiad am unrhyw sesiwn trafodaeth technoleg yn y dyfodol os gwelwch yn dda? Dyn ni i gyd yn colli pethau trwy&#8217;r amser dw i&#8217;n gwybod ond mae <a href="http://www.theflip.com">Flipcam</a> yn rhad iawn dyddiau yma a digon bach am dy boced&#8230;)</p>
<p><strong>Hacio&#8217;r Iaith!</strong> Ces i amser da iawn eto gyda&#8217;r criw Hacio&#8217;r Iaith yn y dafarn The Picture House, Glyn Ebwy. Daeth yr <a href="http://yfrog.com/af5i3qj"><em>usual suspects</em></a> wrth gwrs ond oedd e&#8217;n casgliad unigryw ohonyn ni am y tro dw i&#8217;n meddwl.</p>
<p>Oedd e&#8217;n plesir i weld <a href="http://zeniv.linux.org.uk/~telsa/">Telsa</a> eto. Fydda i ddim yn enwi&#8217;r lleill ond dylet ti dod tro nesaf os oes gyda ti unrhyw diddordeb yn y we, blogio, technoleg a meddalwedd yn y Gymraeg &#8211; dyn ni&#8217;n croesawi unrhyw oed, unrhyw lliw, benywod a dynion. Neu trefna digwyddiad dy hun yn dy ardal (<a href="http://haciaith.com/2010/04/27/adroddiad-a-sgyrsiau-hacior-iaith-bach-ebrill-2010-caerdydd-un-gair-ardderchog/">sut?</a>).</p>
<p>Dyn ni&#8217;n cynllunio Hacio&#8217;r Iaith Mawr ar hyn o bryd (Aberystwyth ym mis Ionawr, mae&#8217;n debyg &#8211; <a href="http://hedyn.net/hacio_r_iaith/ionawr2010">fel eleni</a>).</p>
<p>Yn Hacio&#8217;r Iaith, dyn ni&#8217;n trafod pynciau debyg bob tro, dyn ni rili angen &#8220;chwildro cynnwys&#8221; yn enwedig. Mae pob chwildro yn dechrau gyda <em>hardcore</em> o bobol, yr <em>usual suspects</em>, yn fy marn i. Dyn ni ddim yn disgwyl cwmniau cyfryngau mawr i wneud POPETH. Felly dyn ni dal yn meddwl am ffyrdd i annog a helpu pobol &#8220;normal&#8221; i lenwi&#8217;r we gyda Cymraeg, e.e. <a href="http://pethaubychain.com">Pethau Bychain</a> &#8211; diwrnod i bostio pethau Cymraeg (fideos, lluniau, testun, awdio) a dathlu Cymraeg arlein ar Ddydd Gwener 3ydd mis Medi 2010 (agor i bawb, mwy o fanylion ar y ffordd).</p>
<p>Wnaethon ni trafod lot o syniadau eraill cyffrous yn Hacio&#8217;r Iaith.</p>
<p>Dw i&#8217;n datblygu gwefan i drafod newyddion yn Gymraeg ar hyn o bryd. Mwy ar y ffordd&#8230;</p>
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		<dc:creator>Carl Morris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might be wondering what exactly happened at the National Eisteddfod in Bala earlier this month. Well, so am I. And I was there. There are many eisteddfodau (which is the correct plural, where the last syllable rhymes with &#8216;pie&#8217;) around Wales and the world. But the National Eisteddfod is unique, it&#8217;s the biggest and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You might be wondering what exactly happened at the National Eisteddfod in Bala earlier this month.</p>
<p>Well, so am I.</p>
<p>And I was there.</p>
<p>There are many eisteddfodau (which is the correct plural, where the last syllable rhymes with &#8216;pie&#8217;) around Wales and the world. But the National Eisteddfod is unique, it&#8217;s the biggest and varies its location, alternating between north and south Wales annually.</p>
<p>This was only my second National Eisteddfod. To the people who&#8217;ve been attending since a very young age, I described it as being this exotic thing in my mind, like Rio Carnival, which was perhaps overstatement. But what you get in this blog post is an atypical viewpoint of a newcomer, or possibly outsider.</p>
<p>(By the way, if you can write Welsh and you have any comment to make on this you should consider starting your own blog and making it there. <em>Lle mae fy mlogs, gyfeillion?</em>)</p>
<p>For most other attendees, I imagine the Eisteddfod takes on a familiar, reassuring regularity every summer. On one hand it&#8217;s a Welsh language idyll for a week, understandably protected in order to retain the essential vibe which makes it unique (because there are plenty of other events catering for various languages and tastes &#8211; the Eisteddfod is just plain different mmkay?).</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also a chance to do things common to all humanity like listen to music, have a drink, see friends and cousins. And then maybe compare children. You know, with the Joneses.</p>
<p>Cymry Cymraeg take the latter to a whole new level. To my mind, the default state of a young child is shyness and total inability to step in front of a crowd, let alone entertain one. When I was eight years old, say, I was in Berkshire and we had roughly one or two light entertainers per class, which is maybe 5% give or take. I don&#8217;t know how the schooling is done but by the time a Welsh language child gets to the stage, he or she will possess total confidence to sing, perform and dramatically contort the face with a very fine degree of eyebrow control.</p>
<p>Obviously at the Eisteddfod you get the top percentile, the very apex of primary school level performance craft, but it is definitely embedded in the culture. I could list all the things about the Eisteddfod that were novel to me but this is a good one because it means there is a constant flow of competition-ready offspring being bred in folk artforms and Eisteddfod traditions before I&#8217;ve even built my tent. Or figured out the appropriate Welsh verb for this (<em>codi</em> to raise, not <em>adeiladu</em> to build).</p>
<p>I had a great, great time. Gigs, camping, good weather, good company. The Eisteddfod took over the whole of Bala town, which felt like the heartland and small enough to be conducive to fringe events and spontaneous happenings and encounters. Last year in Cardiff was very dispersed by comparison, where the <em>maes</em> was on the margins of the city centre at a distance from fringe gigs and other goings on. That and it was diluted, by the rest of the city and by actual rain.</p>
<p>In Cardiff the focus ended up on the <em>maes</em> which is not the sum total of the Eisteddfod experience. Please don&#8217;t let it be the sum total. In fact, reaching the point around the fifth hour of deciding which of three quango stands to visit &#8211; all of which totally irrelevant to your life and work &#8211; yields a kind of existential despair as you crumple the day ticket in your pocket. What I&#8217;m trying to say is, there are a lot of organisations who mistakenly think it&#8217;s important to have a presence and show the face at the <em>maes</em> and it ends up feeling like a row of uniform display stands at a business expo. Unless they can pack a mean display stand and dazzle us then they probably shouldn&#8217;t bother at all. Oh and cool freebies. Little tractors I can give to my nephews would be good.</p>
<p>I had to dig to find the cultural stuff at the <em>maes</em> but it was there, stuff like <a href="http://www.tuchwith.com">Tu Chwith</a> at the Pabell Len (literature), <a href="http://pictiwrs.com">Pictiwrs</a> showing shoestring films and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twm_Morys">Twm Morys</a> roaring and banging a stick on the ground. I saw someone singing Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper but in Welsh and on a harp which is something to write home about, I guess. There were a couple of noteworthy tech launches too (<a href="http://www.metastwnsh.com/cysill-ar-lein/">Cysill</a> grammar checker and a belated but welcome phone from <a href="http://www.metastwnsh.com/ffon-yn-y-gymraeg/">Samsung</a> that does predictive text in Cymraeg).</p>
<p>Over in town, the inaugural <a href="http://www.metastwnsh.com/gorsedd-y-gics-eisteddfod-bala/">Gorsedd Y Gîcs</a> event was good too. It&#8217;s fun to be in a gorsedd.</p>
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<p>The (proper) Gorsedd and the costume is what many people associate with the Eisteddfod and is again, only a part but admittedly rather peculiar.</p>
<p>Watch the video above. I missed this bit so I&#8217;m glad I caught it here. The commentary is in English. As you can see, any remaining poetry hopefuls are lambasted for a lack of vision, organisation and clarity. There is no poet decent enough this year so the chair kinda just yawns at the audience. The audience can&#8217;t do much but applaud &#8211; I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s the TV edit &#8211; it looks like they do just break out into applause at such mediocrity regardless.</p>
<p>(For moments like this somebody should invent <em>negative</em> applause where you suck bursts of sound from the air in disapproval.)</p>
<p>In the clipped parlance of Twitter, lolspeak and leetspeak this is known as a #fail.</p>
<p>In life itself I&#8217;d like to create this kind of tension at times by announcing to a packed auditorium there is a chair for something but that nobody deserves to sit in it. I&#8217;d reserve it for things which make me disappointed and very cross, like public transport and the general state of things.</p>
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