Re: Breton, Cornish & French

Chess One wrote:
>
> You should, btw, not assert that I say that 'Shakespeare' did not
> write his Work, but that I say that it is unprovable that he did by
> normal rules of evidence. This is not a dispute about the author****p
> of Shakespeare, but about how we know anything.

That is arrant nonsense - what 'normal rules of evidence' do you think 
apply?  For "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece", Shakespeare has 
written his own letter of dedication for the publication! You are just 
parrotting some nonesense  you have read, without thinking about it.

> Should you not acknowledge these points then I feel as though you
> tangle with some phantom, and not what I have written, nor its
> contextuality. I thereby leave you the offer to win something, or to
> converse on something.

Try writing plain English - and don't use words you don't understand. 
"Contextuality" indeed!

> Without more substantial response on your part, eg, you may win
> whatever your point may be.

Fine - you leave linguistics and onomastics alone, and I will leave you 
alone. And don't talk nonsense about Shakespeare.
-- 
John Briggs

>>>>
>>>> To the Right Honourable Henry Wriothesley,
>>>> Earl of Southampton and Baron of Titchfield
>>>>
>>>> Right Honourable
>>>>
>>>> I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to
>>>> your lord****p, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so
>>>> strong a prop to sup****t so weak a burden: only if you honour seem
>>>> but pleased, I account myself highly praised, and vow to take
>>>> advantage of all idle hours, till I have honoured you with some
>>>> graver labour. But if the first heir of my invention prove
>>>> deformed, I shall be sorry it had so noble a godfather, and never
>>>> after ear so barren a land, for fear it yield me still so bad a
>>>> harvest. I leave it to your honourable survey, and your honour to
>>>> your heart's content; which I wish may always answer your own wish
>>>> and the world's hopeful expectation. Your honour's in all duty,
>>>>                                           William Shakespeare