V Tree
A large V shaped pine tree on the Antony estate near Torpoint...
Seaton Beach
Located at the bottom of the Seaton River valley this sand and shingle beach is popular with families. At low tide it joins up with Downderry around the headland...
Seaton River
The Seaton River as it flows out of the valley and through the village of the same name...
Portwrinkle
Looking down over the one time fishing village of Portwrinkle. In the background is the start of Whitsand Bay as it stretches 4 miles down the Rame Peninsula...
If ME were a real linguist interested in his subject, rather than a weird coding nerd, when I showed him where I thought _uw_ came from he would have said, "that looks interesting" and gone off to check the data to see if he agreed, or maybe could find a slightly different and maybe better explanation. Instead he just denies the whole idea. Why, because it goes against the Holy Word of Nynja. All Everson does is to quote from the works of his Boss -- "His Master's Voice". In several years of discussions with him, I have never seen him advance a single novel idea.
Even if Tregear and CW show signs of orthographic adaptation to Cornish (which I rather doubt) they'd be the exception to prove the rule. They come at the tail-end of Middle Cornish writing, so he's admitting that all the earlier stuff is written in a thoroughly English manner. It's not "English Bad" (morally presumably), but "English spelling seriously unsuitable", "bad" if you like in the way that a blunt knife is "bad" for cutting.
As for, what was his phrase, ah yes, "sustained opposition from people to whom the heritage of the texts was important". Who are these people please and could any of them read the texts if they were put before them? These are mostly people who can't understand any kind of Cornish, the very familiar (to Cornish speakers) "Good Intentions Brigade" for whom the language is a sort of pure unrequited passion.
Ad hominem bluster.I did say that it looked interesting. I don't think it's likely, though. In the first place the "phoneme" is a bit unlikely.Bzzzzzt. Thank you for playing. Do you think that such a theory would get by in primatology? Scientist A: "Lemurs prefer to groom their sisters to their brothers." Scientist B: "Show me your data." Scientist A: "Go look for it yourself." I think the phoneme */yʊ/ is unlikely, yes. And as you have produced no proof, only an argument, I have no reason to think otherwise. Your argument is neat. But that doesn't make it a proof, and you have to do the work of providing the proof.What utter nonsense. Nicholas' word is by no means "holy" and he is neither our leader nor our guru. We (in UdnFormScrefys) worked together collectively and by consensus. Authoritarianism is your bugaboo, not ours.I have quoted Nicholas. I have also co-authored text with him. Your ignorance is showing.Yawn. "Damn Everson by hyperbole." Recently Nicholas, Ben, Albert, and I were talking and we worked out something very interesting about tth though.
All of the orthographies are "adapted to Cornish". Real Cornish. Not that geminate-ridden construction of your own Master.No, I am not. You bleat it often enough end evidently you believe it. To me it makes you look rather ignorant about medieval orthography in general.
Well, you fit the bill pretty well, as do your fellow 'Wormtongues' (whom I have named previously on this forum).
So, I guess *I* would call that sort of repeatedly untruthful someone 'morvran', 'bardh' (of the 'cragh' variety), Steve the Fool . . . and let's not forget Paul the Appauling.
But, Keith, I thought you'd already established (to your own satisfaction, at least), that one doesn't need to prove anything, but can just make unsubstantiated statements, and leave it up to other people to find the proof.
After all, you've been doing just that with your proof-free arguments about your imaginary 'yw' words, on this very thread.
And the proof of your untruthfulness (or otherwise) is in the public domain, in the archives of C24 and CornishOrthography, under your various pseudonyms.
That's just an assertion. Show where I've deliberately told a lie. If you find I've made a mistake by accident, then I'll apologise (which is more than you lot ever do!)
As far as _uw_ goes please re-read the relevent thread here. I've already said all I need on that score.
You still haven't answered my question about the authors of the texts. Who were they? What does "There was Glasney too mean? Is there any proof that any of the manuscripts were written there?
Michael Everson helped to encode the Cherokee Syllabary in Unicode. A historically significant character was omitted from this encoding.
By the way what is the Unicode for Lhuyd's upside down small l?
It would be more accurate to say that nobody currently uses it. It was used in manuscripts.
But enough of that. What about the questions I asked? You have been very critical of Keith for not giving supporting facts. Where are your supporting facts about the Cornish manuscript authors?
The names and identities of the individual people who wrote in the scribal tradition is irrelevant. As is the question of whether any particular document was written at Glasney itself. Anyone with a modicum of training can see that there was a scribal tradition, not an ad-hoc set of writers out there inventing Cornish orthography on the fly based on their knowledge of Middle English. If you want to believe that myth of George's, go right ahead.
The Unicode codes you need for 'Inverted small letter I' are:
#0131 (UTF8: C4 B1)- under 'Latin', LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I
. . . plus . . .
#0323 (UTF8: CC A3) - under 'Diacritics', COMBINING DOT BELOW
I'm no expert on Unicode, but it took me less than a couple of minutes to find this information on my computer, using no more than the free Character Palette software that came bundled with the operating system.
No strain for anyone with a modicum of intelligence to find it out for themselves, Terry.
I know how to find the upside down i. I am looking for the small L. Fonts sometime displays the Capital i and lower case L so they look the same. That's the reason for your misinterpretation. If you may recall in the old days of library card catalogs they used a special loop L because of this. Now try looking at those same charts for an upside down small L. I haven't been able to find it.
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Prime Minister visits Eden
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