Very few people can have missed the ongoing saga on the debate(!) over what should be the correct orthography of Cornish to take it on its next stage of the journey into a truly public Cornish language. Whilst such a debate is deeply regrettable, it has been persistently knocking on the doors of unreasonable people for more than two decades. From the time, in fact, that a one time unified 'club activity' (as defined by one on TV) developed into a multitude of un-unified factional club activities.
What official recognition, and associated funding, now represents is that the unreasonable people must be willing to compromise and thus join a National Language Club. The lack of priority given to this by the Advisory Group on the language is derisory, being, as it is, the LAST of its six declared visions for action.
Tolerance for this fragmentation, and triplication (ignoring lower profile options) of effort, saw such bizarre 'head-in-sand' justifications as 'other countries have language differences', or that 'such a debate is healthy for the language'. Can anyone please give me a paragraph, to include here, that can show any mature moves over the past 20+ years to reconciling the differences - in the Cornish National interest?
