Comment on Tesco sorry for putting up Welsh bilingual signs in Cornwall
me_myself_and_I@lemmy.world 1 day agoI 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?
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
SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 1 day ago
True, and we may have lost immunity over the years so it could be dangerous
tetris11@feddit.uk 1 day ago
you lost me
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.
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.