LL-L "Language politics" 2011.07.07 (03) [EN]

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From: Paul Finlow-Bates wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk
Subject: LL-L "Language politics" 2011.07.17 (01) [EN]

>From Ron:
"What do these cases teach us, if anything?"

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.

"The Cornish people, whose country is officially a part of England.."

Not in my book it isn't! England stops at the River Tamar :)

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.

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.

Paul
Derby
England

Paul

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