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A Cornish Fairy Tale.
« Thread Started on Jun 11, 2007, 1:10pm »

A Cornish Fairytale

Once upon a time there was man named Wella who lived in Cornwall and was a true Cornishman and spoke and wrote true Cornish. This was his mother language and that of his wife as well. He decided that because the language was dying out he would write down some Cornish with a list of words and translations from the bible.

Three hundred years later when Cornish was revived the first book of the language was inspired by his writings and that of his friends. Later however someone decided to change the spelling to that of Wella’s ancestors who lived about two hundred years early and wrote quite differently.

This new spelling was very popular and soon everyone started using it. Then suddenly someone said I’m not happy with it I’ll invent a new spelling quite different from the old one. I’ve got a new computer and I’m not afraid to use it. This new computer Cornish was very different and soon people were using it. Except some decided that the old system was better and kept using that and others preferred old Wella’s spelling and decided to use that.

A little while later the old spelling was changed again and it was good. And some people decided to use that instead.

Then later on men in the big house decide this wasn’t any good, we needed to all be one big happy family and use the same Cornish and they said so.

The computer people said use our spelling it is the best. Everyone else said no it isn’t. So a group of people got together to build a new brighter future with a new brighter Cornish one that everyone could be happy with, except of course the computer people who weren’t happy with anything except their computer Cornish.

This new form looked very much like Wella’s Cornish and it looked very much like his ancestors’ Cornish and it was very good and very Cornish.

Then another group of people decided to change the computer Cornish which had already been changed many many times and they said everyone could use their Cornish.

Except the computer people who didn’t want to.

So there you have it, one language many spellings, and everyone is almost happy, except the computer people.

But you can’t have everything.

The End

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