Even Middle English is bad enough:
For hym was levere have at his beddes heed
Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed,
Of Aristotle and his philosophie
Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie.
But al be that he was a philosophre,
Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.
(Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, c. 1380 - and that's one of the easier
quotes from the Prologue)
Brian
Ingemar Hernefjord (KC/EMW) wrote:
> I'm glad I don't have to speak real old english. Imagine this example:
>
> "Hige sceal že heardra, heorte že cenre,
> mod sceal že mare, že ure męgen lytlaš"
>
> My daughter showed me this from her homework in english. I can understand
> some words, like reading a dutch or italian newspaper. I can speak neither of the
> later, but can read a little.
>
> The above old english translated:
>
> "Courage must be the greater,
> heart the bolder,
> Spirit the greater,
> the more our strength is diminished."
>
> Ingemar Hernefjord
> Ericsson Microwave Systems
>
>
>
>
>
> It's been postulated that the Scots have an inferiority complex - there's
> nothing complex about it, we are inferior!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of R Sedlak
> Sent: 2005-May-06 14:26
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [TN] Is it Friday yet?
>
> England has been using the language a lot longer than the US, and has
> clearly developed some conversational gambits which are spectacular. "throw
> a pigeon amongst the cats" GREAT.
>
> Rudy Sedlak
>
> David Greig <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Been a long week, thought I'd just go through a pigeon amongst the cats...
>
> Best Regards
>
> David Greig
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