[Spellyans] Tregear's Cornish

[Craig Weatherhill]

No scribe writes as many English words into his Cornish as Tregear  
does.  I think we have to take great care which we adopt into Cornish,  
and why we do so.

Craig


On 24 Est 2010, at 10:46, Michael Everson wrote:

> On 24 Aug 2010, at 09:39, nicholas williams wrote:
>
>> To the modern reader it seems as though Tregear didn't have a  
>> sufficiently large Cornish vocabulary.
>> His listeners on the other hand were probably greatly impressed by  
>> his command of theological language—albeit in English.
>
>
> I was told by an eminent lecturer in Burmese at SOAS in London that  
> when a foreigner who has learnt Burmese speaks it, and uses some of  
> the Pali or Sanskrit loanwords, the Burmese are very impressed and  
> congratulate the foreigner on his excellent Burmese.
>
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
>
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Craig Weatherhill