Comment on Tesco sorry for putting up Welsh bilingual signs in Cornwall

tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• me_myself_and_I@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t mean to be rude but isn’t Cornish an extinct language with only 400-500 modern native speakers? That said it is kind of dumb for them to put Welsh in Cornwall. Feels like they are digging themselves a hole. Though I do wonder if there are more Welsh speaking people in Cornwall then Cornish?

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  • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s pretty much what she said in the video. I have mixed feelings about reviving languages that had been dead more than a century, as I get strange nationalist tingles at the back of my neck.

    But if they’re doing it for fun, then that’s fine

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    • SpicyLizards@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      True, and we may have lost immunity over the years so it could be dangerous

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      • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        you lost me

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    • Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      There’s some debate on when Cornish actually died out quite a few accounts well into the 1800s of fishermen speaking it here and there. Half the problem with Kernewek is poor written records towards the end of its decline.

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    • me_myself_and_I@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ah sorry I did not watch the video. Yeah fair enough. Maybe they can add a QR Code that links to a website about the language? Though I don’t think many people would be super annoyed.

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• GreyShuck@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I wonder if Irish/Scottish/Gaelic speakers can pick out anything

  Those are from the Q-celtic branch. Cornish, Breton and Welsh are P-celtic. They are pretty different.

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  • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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• ns1@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I enjoyed this video, it’s funny because the Cornish accent is the same in Cornish as it is in English

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