[Spellyans] SWF review

Craig Weatherhill craig at agantavas.org
Sat May 10 10:55:41 BST 2014


We have said, throughout the 5 years since Treyarnon, that we strongly suspected the Review would move towards KK, and so it's proven.

Craig



On 2014 Me 9, at 14:05, Daniel Prohaska wrote:

> The (ex-)KKers on the Review board completely ignored and excluded the wishes and desires of the Modern (Revived Late) Cornish speakers who in their pre-SWF orthographies only wrote ‹h› and never ‹gh›. Writing word final and pre-consonantal ‹gh› was a compromise on their (our) part, and the return to the overly mediaevalist intervocalic ‹gh› spellings is a further slap in the face of the Modern Cornish users. 
> Dan
> 
> 
> On May 9, 2014, at 11:03 AM, Philip Newton wrote:
> 
>> On 9 May 2014 10:31, Ray Chubb <ray at spyrys.org> wrote:
>>> The only reason that the Review Board decided to 'dumb up' on this issue is
>>> because medial 'gh' is part of Kernewek Kemyn.
>> 
>> Do you have a source for that?
>> 
>> Because my assumption was that they did it as a measure to make SWF
>> more similar to those things that are shared by UC and KK—a kind of
>> reconciliation.
>> 
>> Since UC seems to be used by more people than UCR, so this change
>> would make SWF more similar to what most people previously used.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Philip
>> -- 
>> Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>
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