The Cornish are Anglo-Saxons

[Beorn]

The Cornish have a ceremony of digging a trench between them and England.

Thought I might just add this.

[Albion]

The Cornish have a ceremony of digging a trench between them and England.

Thought I might just add this.

Who cares, they can fill it with aligators for all I care, England subsidises the whole county and there are no excuses such as oil for them either.
Ungrateful bastards.

[The Ripper]

I've been watching the HBO series called Deadwood, and in it appear numerous Cornish miners, known for their "Clannish behaviour" and labour organizational activities, making them a pain in the ass for the capitalists exploiting the gold finds. There's also a few scenes where we hear them discussing in Cornish, but this must be a mistake, I understood the language died out already before the end of the 19th century?

[Beorn]

Ungrateful bastards.

Extremist nationalists are a bitch. I'd say the rest of the Cornish are grateful, but 'can we have our land back now, please?'

I've been watching the HBO series called Deadwood, and in it appear numerous Cornish miners, known for their "Clannish behaviour" and labour organizational activities, making them a pain in the ass for the capitalists exploiting the gold finds. There's also a few scenes where we hear them discussing in Cornish, but this must be a mistake, I understood the language died out already before the end of the 19th century?

Depends really. My grandad could just about speak Cornish (to himself) but could have a conversation on par with a Cornishman via a letter.

I wouldn't be so surprised to learn of insular communities living in The Great America who spoke Cornish.

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

[Osweo]

Even in 1815 you'd have trouble finding anyone who could string a Cornish sentence together with decent grammar. Stop pulling the legs of the poor foreigners, Beorni!

[Albion]

The Cornish language has been revived but is largely a joke, it is the bastard offspring of Welsh and Breton mixed in with rare relics of Cornish proper.
Another conlang.

[Treffie]

The Cornish language has been revived but is largely a joke, it is the bastard offspring of Welsh and Breton mixed in with rare relics of Cornish proper.
Another conlang.

It's definitely not a conlang

[Albion]

It's definitely not a conlang

A planned or constructed language—known colloquially as a conlang—is a language whose phonology, grammar, and/or vocabulary has been consciously devised by an individual or group, instead of having evolved naturally.

Cornish evolved naturally, then died out, then was glued back together with Welsh and Breton filling in the gaps in Unified Cornish.

[Osweo]

I looked into the various disputes about resurrecting Cornish some fifteen or so years ago. Celtabria is being unnecessarily harsh about the efforts that have been made. We do after all have some very substantial texts in the language, and the 'gap filling' is far more thought out than merely taking stuff from the sister tongues.

I wish you'd get a more bloody English name, and all!

[Albion]

I looked into the various disputes about resurrecting Cornish some fifteen or so years ago. Celtabria is being unnecessarily harsh about the efforts that have been made. We do after all have some very substantial texts in the language, and the 'gap filling' is far more thought out than merely taking stuff from the sister tongues.

Well I suppose its better than the attempts at bringing Cumbric back from the dead anyway. I think its been dead too long and too little survives for that.

I wish you'd get a more bloody English name, and all!

Who, me? Celtabria is useful, nobody else on the internet uses it and so it is unique, it is just a name I invented. My real name is not much better either, Greek-derived first name, Celtic substratum English surname.