Although Kernowek Kemyn is best known perhaps for its faux-Cornish spelling, grammar, syntax, pronunciation and vocab ideas, it does occasionally add items to the repertoire of English. The present jocund offering is a colourfully playful reference to those recalcitrant recidivists who will insist on using historically attested forms of Cornish.
(They've also been luridly dubbed, 'Venom-Spitters', 'a few Living Old Fossils', the 'Wilhemine intelligentsia of the Mobutu-Heidegger school of linguistics', and the 'Bizarre anti-Cornish self-referential Bigots who inhabit a Tudor refectory culture'. And all these because they hold dissenting views about spelling -- we kid you not!)
This first charming phrase was in a personal communication that was inadvertently shared with the whole membership of CornishOrthography (and subsequently deleted). It offers a valuable insight into the degree of respect accorded by a prominent Kemynista towards his despised foes.
[Mong Vras, pers. comm. on CornishOrthography]
See also 'tw*t, twit, twot''and 'nonsense, nonsensical ramblings, load of cr*p'
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