Ju-jitsu pressure points in KK.

Practitioners of martial arts like ju-jitsu learn the 'pressure points' of the human body, that's to say, sensitive points where pressure will induce disabling pain. You could probably guess when someone's hit one of these by the victim's voice getting louder, and his movements getting rather frantic in response to the pain.

In a similar way, we can guess at the sensitive 'pressure points' for the Kemynistas by the volume of protest they give off, and a certain frantic quality coming into their utterances. For your delectation, here are a few suspected pressure points, that the Kemynistas seem to be sensitive to. It would, of course, be blatant sadism were I to suggest that anyone might actually try prodding them, just to see what happens; but I can'tl be held at all responsible for what you choose to do, now can I? Here are some factual statements that they really don't like:

• Kemyn came to power in 1987 by dishonest means, and has retained it in the same way ever since.

• The 1987 Truro meeting of the Cornish Language Board (in which they came to power) was rigged.

• The Kemynistas betrayed the trust of many great people, to whom all Cornish speakers owe a huge debt. Morton Nance and Caradar stand at the head of quite a long list of them. The KKists deny this debt has ever existed, just as they deny their treachery.

• Ken George's linguistic Ph.D. is sub-standard. His linguistic work is sub-standard, and is rejected by all academics in Celtic Studies Departments round the world.

• Celtic Studies academics are not worthy of contempt, simply because they unanimously reject George's work as shoddy.

• George's ideas only came to prominence because he was a small frog in a very small Cornish pond. If he'd tried his ideas in Wales or Brittany or the Scottish Gàidhealtachd he'd have been a ridiculed failure (than which his true current status is not a whit higher, in reality!).

• It does matter that Kemyn is not attested in the historical Cornish language texts. It does matter that, by contrast, all the other forms of Cornish are attested in the historical Cornish language texts. Thus, it is not a badge of shame to dub as 'Authentic' Unified Cornish (± Revised) and Late Cornish (± Revised), but rather is it a badge of pride. And it is a badge of shame that Kemyn can be accurately dubbed as being 'Inauthentic Cornish', 'Fake Cornish', 'Pseudo-Cornish' or 'Faux-Cornish'.

• There are scholars who are much better qualified than Ken George to deal with Cornish:
— Dr. Nicholas Williams is an outstanding Celticist, who is worthy of respect.
— Micheal Everson is an internationally renowned expert on typography and scripts, who is worthy of respect.
— My cats are wholly fluent both in their native Gourgathek dialect of Cornish, and in all the relevant parts of English, bar the word "No!" ... even they are more worthy or respect than George et al! And they're ansum, too!

• The Kemyn cabal have damaged the language Revival, and have made many people turn away from studying the language. The number of speakers has declined since they brought themselves to power in their 1987 Putsch.

• The Kemyn cabal has deliberately and repeatedly sabotaged language initiatives by supporters of the other forms of Cornish. They think more of their own self-aggrandisement that the good of the language movement as a whole.

• The number of Kemyn users is much lower than claimed by the Kemynistas. The number of non-Kemyn users is much higher than alleged by the Kemynistas.

• Similarly, the quality and number of Kemyn publications is much lower than claimed by the Kemynistas. This is especially true in their attempts at 'scholarly' books: near universal derision has been evoked in scholarly circles by George's Dictionaries, Brown's Grammar, the Kemyn New Testament and the Kemyn Bewnans Ke.

• The converse is true of non-Kemyn publications: they are both more numerous and of better quality than the Kemynistas are willing to admit.

• Those who have been taught Kemmny have been cynically duped into learning a flawed form of pseudo-Cornish. But you can't fool all the people all the time, and the scales will fall from their eyes in due course.

• Kernewek Kemyn will be looked back on by future generations as a failed experiment, like many other crack-pot linguistic 'revolutions' in history.

• Although the Kemynistas seem to enjoy saying horrid things to other people, they are much less keen on having such things said to them. With their revisionist version of recent history evident in their response, they cry, 'What have we ever done to you?'