The answer to your dilemma's not hard to find. You would not be able to register on the Kernowak list with an obvious pseudonym like 'Bram-bras' or 'Morvram'. So you can't use an obvious pseudonym, but . . . D'oh!
Eddie-C
I have to admit that after years of sitting on the fence and saying I don't mind which system is chosen so long as Cornish is promoted... I have now made up my mind. And I have to say thanks to the Kernowak.com crew for helping me make up my mind.
I have now definately put my support 100% with Kernewek Kemmyn!
I honestly believe going along the Kernowak.com route will be the worst outcome for the language as if this system were chosen, we would lose a vast number of fluent and semi-fluent Cornish users. I believe Kernowak would set the language back decades.
I have even been back to the Cornish Language Office, torn up my original testimony, and written a new one this week.
Thanks once again to the Kernowak crew for helping me make up my mind.
Angofbew, many KK supporters also live outside Cornwall and are not Cornish. Ray Edwards is a very good example. Some do live in Cornwall but are not Cornish - "Wella" Brown for example. Are these also to keep their noses out of the language? Of course not. Cornish is part of Britain's heritage, being descended from the Brythonic that was once spoken through the island. As a Celtic language, the scope of its legacy extends throughout the British Isles including Ireland. With the Cornish diaspora, it also extends to the USA, Australia, South Africa, etc. etc. Don't be so parochial.
Kernowacky has much chance of replacing the Standard Written Cornish of 90% of Cornish-speakers as I have of winning a fortune at Cheltenham. The Payton-Williams clique are desperate to wipe out Modern Cornish, and Kernowacky is their latest ploy. Trouble is, nobody uses it - not even its inventors. That's why they're busy behind doors this very moment, reinventing it. Complete waste of time. It'll never happen.
You have as much chance of winning a used bubble-gum wrapper at Cheltenham as Kemyn has of getting 90% of Cornish speakers to use it. Your tired pseudo-statistics fool nobody but the brain-dead and (possibly) yourself. Anyway, wasn't it "88-91%" the last time you tried selling this particular lie?
The Kemyn hardcore clique has been trying to wipe out all other forms of Revived Cornish for the last 20 years, and their failure at that has been just as great as their failure to increase the total number of Cornish speakers. Matched as well, of course, by their failure to find any academic support for their jerry-built sham-Cornish.
One notices that you use multiple, made-up names for Kemyn: 'Standard Written Cornish' and 'Modern Cornish'. And it's also apparent that you display a distantly familiar propensity for juvenile humour in your malapropist nonce-word 'Kernowacky'.
This terminological inexactitude, coupled with your pretentious pseudonym, makes one think that you might just be the former-bard manqué Mr. Saunders, who not only doesn't live in Cornwall, but who doesn't use Kemyn either (preferring a home-grown concoction of a bastard idiolect that no-one else but himself takes seriously).
You're also repeating some hackneyed turns of phrase from a recent letter to the Western Morning News that someone who sounds remarkably like yourself (and who signed himself 'Tim Saunders') penned. What's wrong, laddy buck? Has your Muse deserted you, so that you have to plagiarise yourself in such a drearily unoriginal fashion? Did you not realise that, if you prostitute your poetical talents, they would shrivel up and die?
As a 'friend' of yours put it recently, "these days," you're "rather marginal to Cornish affairs".
You seem to be upset about something. Am I right?
By the way - you do me too much honour, as ever. 'Kernowacky' isn't one of mine. Glad you, too, have taken it up, though.
Perhaps the most helpful work anybody could do would be to extend Andrew Hawke's work on the vocabulary of Cornish.
Andrew set up a data base of Old, Middle and Early Modern Cornish, down to c. 1850. We desperately need systematic evidence for Recent Modern Cornish since then. Surveying spoken Modern Cornish will take a lot of field work. However, it shouldn't be too difficult to create a data base of written Modern Cornish in *all* its forms. This would be very useful indeed.
Please note the "kernowacky". We have only, so far, referred to KK under those initials. Shall we call it Kernewek Klingonn instead? What is the point or motive of insulting each other's preferences? Criticism is fine, insults aren't.
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