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I'm on my fourth playthrough and I just picked Angleterre out of curiosity. And then I saw the "we are going to take the Cornish pasty right out of your mouth" line in Martha's shop. You did NOT just imply Cornwall (or, as we say in Cornish, Kernow) is England in this otherwise tactful game about oppressed minorities.

Every other time I've seen this line, it's something seemingly appropriate like blood sausage for the Aurics. Cornish pasties for the English? Cornish pasties are, wait for it, Cornish! Cornwall is not England! I'm a Cornish immigrant myself, playing a game supposedly about the immigrant experience, and you are saying my culture is English. Which the English, who are the Aurics to our Wanderers, say, misappropriate for their own as they oppress my country and its people. I'm so disappointed.

Nyns yw Kernow Pow Sows. Cornwall is not England.

swordblade3 years ago

You're damn right it's not who you are, Will. It's who WE are.

Nuclear Fishin' Software3 years ago (1 edit) (+6)

We offer our sincere apologies for the error. This was an oversight in our choice of research sources--we should have consulted people closer to your homeland, and fewer generations removed.

Development on this game ceased years ago, but this is a serious enough mistake that it is worth temporarily resuming development to address. We will release a patch to resolve this and some smaller cultural issues in the coming weeks.

CornishAdvice3 years ago(+3)

Don't want to start anything with swordblade but they are completely wrong here. I'm Cornish, my dad is Cornish, my grandparents are Cornish and this goes back generations. I have lived in Cornwall my entire life and continue to do so.

Because of this, I feel I can give you some input. Swordblade is wrong, Cornwall is absolutely in England. It is a county in England and while could be considered separate, it is in no way separated from England. It has been a part of England since at least before 1066, and possibly earlier.

Some Cornish people believe that Cornwall should be its own place but for the time being, it is England. Also, I thought the line about Cornish pasties was pretty funny. Please don't listen to swordblade or feel bad for this. Even if you have patched the game already. In future, I would be more than happy to help with anything Cornish related should you need it as I have first-hand knowledge as well as sources of first-hand knowledge from my family and have done a lot of research into this.

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