[Spellyans] More on bys/bes words and diacritical marks

[Christian Semmens]

Hi Harry,

Were you looking for Late Cornish examples? If so have a look here:
http://home.btconnect.com/htm_cornwall/traditional%20texts/index_late_text.html
There are some links to late Cornish fragments.

Christian

2008/7/16 Harry Fraiser <harryfraiser at googlemail.com>:
> I've no idea what the figures are for the different forms of Cornish,
> but surely there must be a minimum for each one? And who is Jenny?
>
> Harry
>
> On 7/16/08, Mary Williams <marywilliams230 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>> 2008/7/15 Harry Fraiser <harryfraiser at googlemail.com> rug scrifa:
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>>> Could we use 'zh' or 'dzh' in modern Cornish, perhaps?
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>> In theory, certainly, but what good would it do? We want an
>> orthography that will bridge the gap between Middle and Late
>> orthographies, thereby making RLC material accessible to RMC users and
>> vice versa. Using a grapheme for RLC that wouldn't be present in RMC
>> subverts this overall design.
>>
>> ~~Owen
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>> I've often wondered why nobody has put all the Late material
>> together in a book, I don't imagine it would be a very thick book.
>> Is that what you mean by "making RLC material accessible"? I've
>> seen Dick Gendall's dictionaries and course books, but I can't
>> recall seeing anything written in this system apart from the odd
>> line or two here and there. Likewise Jenny was talking about the
>> need to cater for kids growing up learning Late, until someone
>> pointed out to her that there weren't any! Why do you feel the
>> need to give so much attention to a group that's almost invisible
>> to us in Cornwall?
>>
>> Mary
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