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Comment number 1.
At 18th Oct 2010, dtrerise wrote:He's 100 years too late. Cornish has already been revived and it is part (albeit a small yet growing part) of Cornwall.
If he had made his comments in in the 1910s when the revival was just getting started they might have been relevant.
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Comment number 2.
At 22nd Oct 2010, CJenkin wrote:Language's don't naturally decline they are persecuted to death - the tiny amounts of money that are now used to help celtic languages are miniscule in comparison to the persecution that our imperial state has performed against these languages - we have a long way to go to redress the balance.
Mitchell's comments are just ignorant crassness - probably because he hasn't come to terms with his gaelic heritage.
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Comment number 3.
At 24th Oct 2010, Saltashgaz wrote:2. At 5:17pm on 22 Oct 2010, CJenkin wrote:
Language's don't naturally decline they are persecuted to death
I do not recall Dolly Pentreath being persecuted in 1777 when she died, I must need to look that bit of half-truths up on C24 or the MK website. The nats encourage the language for purely divisive reasons. Shame the really Cornish people are not allowed to enjoy our culture for what it is.
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