<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 24 Jul 2008, at 20:02, Michael Everson wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I have not seen it. What is it?<br></div> </blockquote><br></div><div>A series of books commissioned by the CLP for <i>ab initio</i> Primary School learners of Cornish. Have a look at</div><div><a href="http://www.magakernow.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=44044">http://www.magakernow.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=44044</a></div><div>for details of the project. There are links on that URL to a couple of sample pages.</div><div><br></div><div>Fwiw, my take on the books, based on the 2 sample pages on MAGA's site is that:</div><div><br></div><div>-- the artwork is well done and attractive, </div><div><br></div><div>-- the typography is poor in places: black text against medium cobalt sky is hard to read, and is a flaw that would be trivial to fix.</div><div><br></div><div>-- the story-lines are so politically correct they're utterly limp,</div><div><br></div><div>-- the mixing of fragments of Cornish in with much longer chunks of English is an awful way to try and teach a language.</div><div><br></div><div>-- the spelling is sometimes ludicrously anglicised. For instance, we find that English "Whee!" allegedly becomes *Cornish . . . "Whee!". This prompts 2 observations:</div><div>(1) SWF 'Main' Form has <hw> not <wh>, if memory serves me aright,</div><div>(2) it does not have Cornish <--ee> for the English /i:/ sound (as in E. 'tea', 'we'). In fact, I don't think SWF has <ee> at all, does it?</div><div><br></div><div>-- some of the 'Cornish' idioms sound strangely anglicised. Surely, E. "I can fly" would not normally be translated (as they do) "My a yll neija" but rather as "My a wor neija".</div><div><br></div><div>If I had kids of school age, I wouldn't be buying any of these for them (irrespective of the nasty SWF 'Main' Form orthography they've used).</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: SlimbachITC; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: SlimbachITC; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: SlimbachITC; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: SlimbachITC; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: SlimbachITC; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: SlimbachITC; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Eddie Foirbeis Climo</div><div>- -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- -</div><div>Dres ethom akennow byner re bons lyeshes</div><div><i>Accenti non multiplicanda praeter necessitatem</i></div></span></span></span></span></span></span> </div><br></body></html>