Today, the Blog opens its doors to the public at large, after an evaluation period in front of selected critics.
The aim is to cast a skeptical and satirical eye over the Cornish language revival, and to sound a warning note whenever we spy anything undesirable littering the landscape. This includes the lies, hypocrisies and disinformation handed out by those in charge of the Kernowek Kemyn clique, but is not confined exclusively to those.
But in addition to our role as skeptical debunkers, we've also enjoyed our work as satirists as well. We hope you might find your eyes opened by the first, and your funny bones tickled by the second.
To nail our colours to the mast, the authors of this blog all use Unified Cornish, but are perfectly receptive to all the other historically-attested forms, such as Late Cornish, Late C. Revised, and Unified C. Revised. When the Single Written Form is eventually decided upon, it's likely that we'll be receptive to that as well, although we'll probably still continue to use the U.C. we're familiar with.
What we reject utterly is Kernowek Kemyn and 'Saun-Dreck', and any other forms of 'Cornic' which are not historically attested. These we view as shoddy fakeries, invented by linguistic incompetents--a view shared by every university Celtic Studies department in the world. We believe that these idiolects will come in time to have the same half-forgotten status in Cornish as the various extinct 'fakeries' one can find in the English-speaking world; GB Shaw's Shavian orthography comes to mind, as an example of this (as does William Barnes' 19th-century Real English with its mock-Anglo-Saxon coinings like 'ungothroughsome' for 'impenetrable', 'folk-wain' for a 'bus', and 'life-lore' for 'biology').
Remember, Kernowek Kemyn -- fük yu!
An Pyber Dyscryjyk, An Barthyk Dysbardhek, An Geriadorer Dyslettrys (and friends).
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