Re: Breton (WAS: first try at conlanging)

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 01:49:57PM -0500, Elliott Lash wrote:
> In a message dated Sun, 6 Jan 2002 12:51:54 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> erwan ar skoul <erwan.arskoul@...> writes:
> > Dan Jones a écrit :
> > > Salud ha degemer mat. Another Breton, I presume?
> > Ya, salud deoc'h ivez
> There are Bretons on the list?! Wow, Mat an traou ganeoc'h? Karout a ran
> an Brezhoneg.
> Though, I'm not very good at it. I did my final project last semester on
> the syntax of Breton Copular Sentences...and I needed help at some points.
Did you come to any interesting conclusions?

> I should have emailed the list! damn.  Oh well....back to regular programming.
> Elliott
Damn, the Bretons have all the best tunes.

Still I would maintain that Welsh is ESSENTIALLY Breton spoken by Methodists
(being sober, they have no problem with [T] and [D] keep their vowels and
[r]'s clear, don't turn their diphthongs inside out ...), and Cornish is
essentially Breton spoken by lapsed Methodists (if they haven't lapsed
to begin with a few "cultural" visits to Brittany seem to do the trick).

I once saw someone who dropped in on a Cornish gathering en route from
Wales to Brittany. They were speaking Welsh to a companion, Cornish to
the company at large, and Breton to someone on the phone, _all at once_.
My brain just isn't wired that way!

Bloaz nevez mat deoc'h!

Keith

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