That sounds like a reduction in your ‘trust settings’ - Discourse does a lot of quite complex things around forum behaviour, most of which seem to work pretty well. I’ve over-ridden this so that your trust levels are back at ‘member’.
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Diolch yn fawr! I might not have been able to send this, otherwise! How about new members? Can you increase their allowances?
I’m happy with the current settings, which are part of our defence system against spam accounts.
@henddraig Your username is now showing in proud black electronic print … when you first came back into the fold, you were a sort of ghostly grey. I’m glad you are back, and not just as a ghostly wraith! 
(“wraith” is a rather nice English word. Out of curiosity, I looked it up in Gweiadur, and it gave: “drychiolaeth, ysbryd”).
(I seem to remember that wraiths featured in “Lord of the Rings” (although I think JK Rowling sort of nicked the idea for Harry Potter).
(I’m guessing that you are more comfortable as a draig than as a drychiolaeth).
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Yn wir! Truly!
Done here in the @seren’s list - under section “Learning problems” link “Which lessons to do for revision”. I hope it’s OK that way.
Brilliant! Diolch yn fawr!
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I’m hearing a lot of ceisio, rather than trio. Is this one of them dialectical differences or is there any difference in meaning?
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In the old Course 1, right at the beginning, Aran explains that ceisio is an older word for trio. They are interchangeable. I tend to use trio because that is what I learned first. 
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To @margaretnock. I was browsing the thread yn Gymraeg and saw an exchange between you and Pete about speed. You had put 300 cm/hr Now I am fairly sure that the Internationally agreed units rule. You can, of course, write cilomedr, but cm = centimetre Internationally on pain of total chaos! Now I am not actually sure of this, but it seems to be what ruled when I was working. But I never did physics through the medium of Welsh. So I am asking, does anyone know? I mean, I remember a French colleague being upset at the demise of the Curie, and I pointed out that the Curies were half Polish, whereas M. Becquerel, for whom the new unit was named, was entirely French.
Shouldn’t that be cm/a?
Seriously, the international unit nomenclature is km/h, for example as is done in Ireland: “Since the text “km/h” on Irish speed limit signs is a symbol, not an abbreviation, it represents both “kilometres per hour” (English) and “ciliméadar san uair”(Irish)” (Wikipedia). But UK speed signs don’t show this, I don’t think.
Another example: French, like Welsh, does not have the letter “k” other than in loan words, but uses kilometre (at least in my dictionary).
So the correct description is km/h, and it has nothing to do with English nor Welsh, and you are totally correct, @henddraig
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And I’m quite prepared to believe I’m wrong. Didn’t think of it being an international unit, just a translation issue.
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I never know if I want to be a billionaire or a millionaire in Welsh (yn filiwnydd)
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Depends on the currency. 1,000,000 Lao Kip will get you 4 nights in a middle range travel lodge type of place. £1,000,000 and I could think of retiring.
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As @a_jay says.
I tend to find ceisio used more here (Cardiff) by “Westies” (as I affectionately call people from the Gorllewin not the dogs) than Gogs.
Only think, Margaret?? Surely you would travel on to anywhere your fancy listed before eventually settling in luxury and bliss, doing volunteer work when you had the urge! (I sort of started out doing the settling and bliss and volunteering on Gower before finding my finances were not quite up to my cottage’s needs!)
To @louis Thanks for the reassurance. I had a notion that centimetres per second went at the same time as the curie, but I was more concerned with units which directly effected my work!
As the old joke has it: a million here, a million there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money!
But on the important subject of units and symbols for units, when you were a working chemist @henddraig, had the SI system not come in? Perhaps it didn’t affect chemists to the same extent as physicists and engineers.
When I was at secondary school, in the lower school we used the so-called CGS system - centimeter-gramme-second system, but by the time I was doing physics in the 6th form, we had moved on to the MKS system - metre-kilogramme-second. I’m not 100% sure how the process worked, but what became used in the SI (Système international) were the MKS, rather than the CGS units.
I guess you are referring there to the adoption of SI units, but as you also suggest, in practice people probably carried on using what they had been used to, for a long time, anyway.
It would have to keep me going for 30, perhaps 40 years. If I just lived on the interest there wouldn’t be much in the way of luxury. If I lived on the capital inflation would mean that the good numbers now would feel pretty meager at the end of that time. It would need to be thought about.
What do people use to say “annoying” in Welsh? I tend to use “bod yn niwsans” in some form. Wondering if there was another form?
Mynd ar nerfau…
But what we hear lots from the kids and their friends is that stuff is ‘annoying’… 
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