the Cornish don't exist.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....t-rules-watchdog.html

So it seems it is alright to insult anyone from Cornwall, because, under the Race Relations Act, the Cornish do not exist as a separate nationality from the English.

With this in mind, is it also alright to insult anyone who comes from The County of Cornwall, in Jamaica?

[fredpuli47]

Yes, if your insulting him qua from that County.

[Rev Sermon]

Bloody trouble making pixies, we should ban them from AB!

[Gromit]

Cornwall is a county not a Country. They are English, same as Scoucers, Brummies and Geordies.

You can insult anyone you like, but you cannot racially insult them. There is a difference.

[flip_flop]

I had no idea street name signs in Cornwall are written in English and Cornish.

Cornish, like Welsh, is pretty much a dead language only spoken by a few die-hards who use it as a badge of honour to show they aren't English.

I visit Pembrokeshire in Wales a lot - my Brother-In-Law is Welsh and lives there - and it always makes me wryly smile that all the road signs are in English and gibberish and yet nobody he knows in Wales can speak Welsh. Him included.

[fredpuli47]

flip_flop nobody who knows Wales well would be surprised.South Pembrokeshire and Cardiganshire are known as 'Little England beyond Wales' because they've had the English language and culture adopted for centuries.There is a marked dividing line called the 'Landsker ( sp?) boundary' between the area and the North, where Welsh (nasal and northern, differing somewhat from that of South Wales) is spoken.
One thing you may notice, certainly in the South, is that roadsigns have English above Welsh where Welsh is commonly spoken but the other way round where English is clearly predominant.(Don't know which way the signs are in Pembrokeshire).

[fredpuli47]

EDIT "Welsh above English where Welsh....." !

[MarkRae]

> Welsh is pretty much a dead language only spoken by a few die-hards

Approximately 750,000 at the last census

[MarkRae]

> There is a marked dividing line called the 'Landsker (sp?) boundary'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsker_Line

[craft1948]

My aunt and uncle once went on a walking holiday in Wales, and went into the village pub, where they were totally ignored, but talked about in Welsh.
On leaving my aunt, before marriage she was called Mary Williams, turned round and told them in Welsh exactly where they could stick their village......

[MarkRae]

They're famous for it.

We'll keep a welcome in the hillside my a**e!

[fredpuli47]

Truly said, Mark .but the chorus of 'We'll keep a welcome.." is 'when you come home again to Wales' It's not being addressed to any English ! Notice that the TV ads for Welsh tourism feature a man and his family being welcomed there but he's Rhod Gilbert, a Welshman.They couldn't find any English bloke to look genuinely welcome even if they hired the best Welsh actors to fake the warm greetings. I was welcome,eventually, but I had to marry a Welsh, Welsh speaking woman, to be so (and even then it was bit iffy, seeing as she'd married out !)

[MarkRae]

It's a different story a few hundred miles further North, though...

Come to Islay, Lewis, Uist or wherever and you will be genuinely made to feel welcome.

Make the tiniest of efforts by saying "Feasgar math" and "Tapadh leibh", and chances are you won't buy a drink all evening...

[Answerprancer]

Flip-flop, at the risk of it looking like I'm ganging up on you: I think you're entering dangerous territory by saying "Cornish, like Welsh, is pretty much a dead language".
Welsh is very much alive and is a compulsory subject in many Welsh schools.
I think it's important to keep these languages/cultures thriving.
I love the thought that there may still be communities in Cornwall that can speak Cornish fluently - they have my support.

Nos dha !

[MarkRae]

Or a sheep tied to a lamp post? A leisure centre.

[MarkRae]

> I love the thought that there may still be communities in Cornwall that can speak
> Cornish fluently - they have my support.

Me too. 100%.