[Spellyans] BBC Broadcast

[Craig Weatherhill]

Yes, Ken, both Oliver and I are included.  Our first meeting was last  
Friday.  That established little more than a basic working practice  
policy and the fact that I will have my work heavily cut out to banish  
non-traditional graphs from historic place-names.  I will need to have  
steel heels fitted for the amount of digging in I'll have to do  
against Pol and Julyan..

Craig


On 26 Gen 2010, at 16:01, Ken MacKinnon wrote:

> Craig and friends.
>
> I watched the Inside Out programme courtesy of Sky.   My own  
> thoughts were that it did not get us very much further forward.   I  
> contributed over an hour of recorded speech - but little more than a  
> couple of snippets were used ( in my view on somewhat perpheral  
> issues).
>
> The programme contained a lot of stereoptyping, and I thought that  
> Mick Catmull would have gotten a bit beyond this onto more salient  
> issues.
>
> I understand that CLP have set up a placenames working group.   I  
> very much trust that people like yourself, Craig , and Oliver Padel  
> have been included.
>
> Jenefer and Nev Meek are due to attend a British & Irish seminar on  
> language legislation next week in Edinburgh - and I hope to have the  
> opportunity of a session with them on current issues.
>
> - oll an gwella - an Ken ken
>
> Ken MacKinnon is now on Broadband  with new e-mail addresses:-
>
> ken at ferintosh.org
> and also at:-
> ken.ferintosh at googlemail.com
>
> My former e-mail addresses are no longer able to be used.
>
> (Prof) Ken MacKinnon
> Ivy Cottage, Ferintosh,
> The Black Isle, by Dingwall,
> Ross-shire  IV 7 8HX
> Scotland  UK
>
> Tel: 01349 - 863460
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Weatherhill" <craig at agantavas.org 
> >
> To: "Standard Cornish discussion list" <spellyans at kernowek.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [Spellyans] BBC Broadcast
>
>
>> Yes, I did see this.  Some presenter/interviewer from way out of
>> Cornwall, perpetuating the Dolly Pentreath list and with the usual
>> sneery attitude we've come to expect from the BBC.  'Do you speak
>> Cornish?' he asked the barmaid.  'No," she replied.  'Thank God for
>> that,' he said.
>>
>> Still, Mick, Ray and Denise held their own.  Rather well, I thought.
>>
>> I've missed the Radio Cornwall programme today on which some academic
>> from the University of Durham is being allowed to opine that the
>> Cornish, as a people, don't exist.  (If this was done against a black
>> or Asian group, there would be all hell to pay and probably
>> prosecutions as well).  Ok, so I don't exist, therefore this message
>> has never been sent.
>>
>> Craig
>>
>>
>>
>> On 26 Gen 2010, at 14:42, j.mills at email.com wrote:
>>
>>> For those who missed the BBC broadcast concerning the Cornish
>>> language (Monday 25 January), it can be found on BBC iPLayer at
>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qg3bb/Inside_Out_South_West_25_01_2010/
>>> .
>>> Fast forward to about 9 mins 50 secs into the programme for the part
>>> concerning the Cornish language.
>>> Ol an gwella
>>> Jon
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