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cwtch (that ain't no typo)
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To whom? Should Welsh people not use privacy software too? Stupid ass chauvinist position
In any case, the IPA above doesn't seem "unpronounceable" at all to me as a native speaker of German and fluent speaker of English. The pronunciation isn't intuitive from the spelling, that is quite a different thing from being unpronounceable.
I mean, just imagine you're spitting game at cutie at the bar and things are cooking and you go "hit me up on hkmbljurgh" and all of a sudden fire and brimstone all around ~~kthulu~~ cthulhu appears wondering why you summoned ~~him~~ them you scream sorry bro wrong number bro kthulu goes its aight but ~~he~~ they missed a dentist's appointment because of this the barkeep is now pissed who's gonna clean this up cutie is nowhere to be found...
shoulda gone with signal is what I'm saying
Again, stupid chauvinist take. Not everyone speaks English and not everyone uses English pronunciations. Also, cwtch is a relatively popular loanword too, plenty of English speakers have learnt to say it.
You know most of the world finds English spellings hard to pronounce, right? You're speaking in a language notorious for its inconsistent pronunciations (see "-ough").
It's also particularly fucked up to mock Welsh like that given that Welsh is one of the many languages with a long history of children being violently reprimanded for speaking their native language by English people.
To piggyback on this and apply chauvinistic reciprocity, why would you spit anything at some you find cute. They probably decided to leave with Cthulhu, who is confidently, unapologetically, Cthulhu.