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Matt Spry @mattdspry.bsky.social · 3d

Koffi ha kows rag dyskoryon #Kernewek ha Kernewegoryon yn #Aberplymm dy'Gwener 10ves a vis Hedra 5.30-7.30pm yn Caffeine Club. Pubonan yw wolkom!

@kowethas.bsky.social @saykernewek.bsky.social @plymouthherald.co.uk @cornwalllive.com @speakcornish.bsky.social @cornishlanguage.bsky.social

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Onnen Jolly @onnenjolly.bsky.social · 2h

Y'n vilva an seythen ma...
Maisie an strus!

(In the zoo this week...)

#kernewek

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Onnen Jolly @onnenjolly.bsky.social · 13h

Y'n vilva an seythen ma... Jiraff!
(In the zoo this week...)
#kernewek

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Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 5d

Well, you 'created' the fucker, God. What the fuck were you thinking of, you despicable cheap-shit amateur deity? Like weren't Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Hitler, Napoleon, Stalin and latterly fucking Netan-yahoo enough for your sick and twisted sense of fucking humour? Fuck you.

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Courtenay Rule 〓〓 @courtenayrule.bsky.social · 1d

Ow kelwel Kernewegoryon a Ebronlas — a yllyn ni gweres Amanda? 😀
#Kernewek #Kernow #Cornwall #Cornish #Cornishlanguage

Amanda Mugford 〓〓 @amandamugford.bsky.social · 1d

I need some help from a proficient Cornish language speaker please! I paint landscapes & when my work is based on my homeland I always use the Cornish language as titles. The trouble is I don't speak it. Literal translations from English don't always work poetically so a little conversation 1/2

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Onnen Jolly @onnenjolly.bsky.social · 1d

Will always help if possible, but I'm also not proficient ... yet! A lot of us have this problem, as there is a shortage of Cornish teachers. I'm a retired English teacher, so I understand grammar pretty well, at least.

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Amanda Mugford 〓〓 @amandamugford.bsky.social · 1d

I need some help from a proficient Cornish language speaker please! I paint landscapes & when my work is based on my homeland I always use the Cornish language as titles. The trouble is I don't speak it. Literal translations from English don't always work poetically so a little conversation 1/2

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Onnen Jolly @onnenjolly.bsky.social · 2d

A fine point of grammar, that. :)

Onnen Jolly @onnenjolly.bsky.social · 2d

meur ras

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Onnen Jolly @onnenjolly.bsky.social · 2d

"By Tre-, Pol- and Pen-, ye shall know your Cornishmen", I was taught as a kid, and it's clear that really old British placenames are everywhere, not just in the modern Celtic nations.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 7d

“Should anyone present know of any reason why this couple should not be joined in holy matrimony, speak now or-“

“You don’t have to do this, Sarah.”

An officiant and a couple stand at the altar. A seated golden retriever places its paw on the bride's hand.

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Onnen Jolly @onnenjolly.bsky.social · 2d

Rag an studhyoryon kernewek:

Yn = In.

Ow = my, which causes 3rd (or 'breathed') mutation. This changes K to H, P to F and T to TH (in other words, unvoiced plosives to fricatives).

Fenn = head, which is in the dictionary as 'penn', but after the breathed mutation, becomes 'fenn'.

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Onnen Jolly @onnenjolly.bsky.social · 2d

"Greater Cornwall"

Onnen Jolly @onnenjolly.bsky.social · 2d

Yn ow fenn.
(In my head)

#kernow #kernewek

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Onnen Jolly @onnenjolly.bsky.social · 2d

Coming to a Dartmoor woodland near you. Go Martes!

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Onnen Jolly @onnenjolly.bsky.social · 2d

Myttin da!

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Justin @ediparolev.bsky.social · 3d

Happening right now - to a country near you

Cartoon. Caption says “Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it.”

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Onnen Jolly @onnenjolly.bsky.social · 2d

It looks we need to translate "1000s of sentences" of game dialogue into Cornish.

We can do this!

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Chris Teague @christeague1.bsky.social · 7d

One of the @cornishchoughs.bsky.social over Lizard Point today.

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Blislander 🟰🟰 @blislander.bsky.social · 3d

Polzeath and Pentire for breakfast and an early morning stroll...

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chloelewis.bsky.social @chloelewis.bsky.social · 3d

Thinking, as I post these hedgerow berries, of Diane Purkiss' excellent chapter on foraging in her book 'English Food, a people's history' which she discusses in this interview with @neilbuttery.bsky.social:

share.google/HGx5VGPcM7Vb...

#WildFlowerHour

Hawthorn berries, foreground, bracken and a grass path leading to a grove of oak + hawthorn atop the iron age earthworks, Roborough Down, Dartmoor, Devon.

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Onnen Jolly @onnenjolly.bsky.social · 3d

Newcomer in Cornish would be amazing.

Cornwall Council, or Exeter University, or Kowethas an Yeth Kernewek, would be able to 'crowd source' this.

It would be the first video game in Cornish!

newcomergames.com/newcomer/

@cornwallcouncil.bsky.social
@kowethas.bsky.social

Newcomer: a language learning video game

Newcomer is a language learning videogame with second language conversations, world exploration, language battles and much more. A fun language learning game for all ages.

newcomergames.com

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Onnen Jolly @onnenjolly.bsky.social · 3d

Yn meth Ynigo:
"Feusik os ta, mes Ynyal v vy!"
(I a gar gwariow war eryow).

(Inigo says:
"You are Lucky, but I'm Desolate!")
(They love puns))

#kernewek #cornish #princessbride #langsky

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Onnen Jolly @onnenjolly.bsky.social · 3d

Dy'Sul lowen dhewgh oll!
Fatel owgh hwi?
Ottomma lyvrow yeth kernewek pur bosek. Res yw dhyn moy!

(Happy Sunday to you all!
How are you?
Here are very important Cornish language books. We need more!)

#kernewek #kernow #cornish #vornwall #langsky

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Steve Sanderson @steve-sando1.bsky.social · 4d

Lovely to see Golden Plover back on my patch of Bodmin moor today.
#birds #birding #birdphotography #Naturephotography #Naturelovers

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