Beach Ices at Praa Sands
Ice meeting the sand at the base of the low cliff behind Praa Sands Beach, West Cornwall. 6th January 2009....
Icicles at Trewellard Bottoms
Water seeping through a wall is turned to icicles, ate Trewellard Bottoms, where Geevor Mine meets the sea....
Winter Sunset at Levant
A late afternoon scene, at Levant Mine, West Cornwall. 7th January 2009....
Winter at Levant
The old electricity generator building, at Levant Mine, West Cornwall, during the recent cold snap. 7th Jnauary 2009....
I've never made fags a habit, but I'd never dream of bumming one. My mother taught me 'never a borrower nor a lender be'.
In all seriousness, English is a language divided by its similarities. I've had to re-think the way I say some things, simply to save myself having to over-explain myself.
We don't have dinner at all, it's breakfast, lunch and tea, most times, but if we go out for an evening meal, it's dinner. As a child we had dinner lunch time, and on Sundays always had a roast dinner and what would have been considered high tea, about 5pm. sandwiches and cakes. mum would buy 6 fancy cakes and my brother and I would fight over who had what. never have a Sunday roast these days, but usually have a Wednesday roast most weeks.
This is all very good interesting stuff but it doesn't appear to have much to do with the title of this thread, the Cornish accent.
All to often on the streets, the local Cornish accent, in all of its forms, is being anglicised (yes, Stroppygit, anglicised) by the incessant use of either the Queen's English, as on the EBC National News, or approximations of the London vernacular as found on that dirge of a soap-opera, Eastenders.
It is unacceptable that almost no Cornish accents are to be heard either on Radio Cornwall, aka, Radio England, and its slightly less Anglo-centric, "independent" rival, Pirate FM. Of course, you will hear a plethora of other regional accents, including Ulster, Scottish, Cockney, Geordie etc etc but never a Cornish one. On Pirate, you will even hear adverts for that most Cornish of comestibles, the pasty, which is invariably voiced in a a plummy or, even, a Mancunian accent.
No wonder our children are sounding like foreigners! It's time for something to be done about it!
I wouldn't mind doing voice overs for Radio Cornwall etc - I wonder how you go about it? I'll be one of the voices heard on the headphones at truro museum soon - I'm quite chuffed about that
That's why you have got the job of museum voice-over operative. You probably stand a good chance of getting a job as a newscaster on Radio England also.
Errr - I've got the 'job' of museum voice over as an old cornish lady character from a new play about the downfall of mining and community so no cigar for you I'm afraid - she's very cornish
People saying I don't have a cornish accent says more about them than me. I do have a cornish accent but I don't sound like someone out of Wycliffe or Doc Martin.
Perhaps you should wait to hear my accent before casting nasty-urtiums.
I was going to say welcome to the forums but maybe I'll hang fire
But you stated earlier that people don't think you have a Cornish accent. My facetious comment merely drew attention to the fact that the museum would look favourably upon that. You made no mention of the character you are being asked to portray.
Perhaps.
Thank goodness for that!
All I have to go on are your comments. You said that people don't think you have an accent. What conclusion am I to draw?
Anyway, I accept that I might have been a little quick of the mark and I offer you an apology with a very good wish that you will be successful at the museum. Hope that calms things down and we can start off on the right foot!
With globalisation rapidly occuring, accents will become rarer.
Colloquialisms, on the otherhand, are an easy way to hang on to your language heritage.
Of course you could all make sure that you don't leave Cornwall or communicate to any non-Cornish. But that would be very difficult. Unless it is on this Board where you only talk nicely to Cornish and insult those from other countries.
I say, I say. That's a joke son.
No. Truly it is.
Welcome Hunlef. Nice of you to join us here. Or as I would say in my home town, you'll be apples.
Factual evidence is something Stroppygit wouldn't recognise if it landed on his English nationalist head!
He thinks it sufficient to merely disagree with anything remotely associated with Cornish national minority issues without providing any substance whatsoever. Pontifications are simply not enough mee'andsome, you really do need to try harder.
Perhaps, he might be inclined to start with the drafters of international charters and conventions who, in his warped opinion, have seemingly got things so completely wrong. Let's start with the Council of Europe which recognises the Cornish language, along with the Brit government which does the same. Let's not forget the human rights principles of freedom of expression and association - please explain your warped position on these issues in regard to the Cornish minority. I've looked at the drivel in so many of your postings - I use the word cautiously as it is clear that he tries very hard. However, it is interesting to note that he takes an anti-Cornish stance automatically, even in the face of overwhelming contrary evidence.
Unless cogent answers with supporting evidence is adduced, I am afraid that poor old Stroppygit will continue to portray himself as a militant opposed to even the most basic of international human rights principles.
"Pot calling the kettle black, methinks"!
If he doesn't like the Cornish, why does he not join a forum which supports his opinions? It is, IMHO, completely bizarre that someone who now lives in Australia, who claims (?) to be Welsh and who articulates English nationalist sympathies (without adducing a shred of substance) now spends most of his waking life articulating anti-Cornish drivel.
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