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</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: Paul Finlow-Bates <a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L "Language politics" 2011.07.17 (01) [EN]</font></div>
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From Ron:</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"What do these cases teach us, if anything?"</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Probably that searching for any unfying, universal political/linguistic truth is a lost cause. People will speak how they want to speak, when they want to. If they find nobody around them understands what they're saying, they'll try something else.</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"The Cornish people, whose country is officially a part of England.."</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Not in my book it isn't! England stops at the River Tamar :)</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Actually Cornwall has two distinctive halves as seen in place-names: an eastern Saxon part and a western Brtyhonic bit. You see signs of two different senses of "Cornishmess" as well, on the flags on vans and caravans (mobile homes) etc. Some fly the Cornish white cross-on-black, next to the St George cross - "English, but different"; others fly the Cornish flag alone - "Cornish, not English". It would be interesting to find out where the different factions are from - my guess is an east-west split.</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">But in any event, walk into a pub in Cornwall and speak Cornish, if you can, and you'll be very lucky to find anyone who understands you, west or east. It's not at all like Welsh in North Wales.</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Paul</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Derby</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">England</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Paul</font><div style="text-align: center">
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