on-topic, maybe?jens wrote:
What's OT again?
-and the good old hound of baskerville fits in nicely, too. words like beef and knife on the other hand are legacy of the norman invasion iirc. i
english *sold*
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-and the good old hound of baskerville fits in nicely, too. words like beef and knife on the other hand are legacy of the norman invasion iirc. i
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Yes I love English as well!fabi wrote:on-topic, maybe?jens wrote:
What's OT again?
-and the good old hound of baskerville fits in nicely, too. words like beef and knife on the other hand are legacy of the norman invasion iirc. i
In 'Ivanhoe' Walter Scott explains how, when the Normans ruled over England, the Saxon servants and the Normanic masters had to find a way to talk to each other and so they mixed their languages up and that's how English came into being according to him...
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We Americans have further mangled the language so that the lyrical "Thou shalt halt thine stool betwixt" is now "Don't have a cow, man!"jens wrote: - other examples are 'halt', 'stool', 'thou, thee, thine', 'betwixt' etc.
Dan
Those that can, do. Those that can't, argue about it on k-v-r
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LO-f**king-LOL!dgkenney wrote: We Americans have further mangled the language so that the lyrical "Thou shalt halt thine stool betwixt" is now "Don't have a cow, man!"
But well, isn't that lyrical as well?
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Those who can do maths and those who can't.
Those who can do maths and those who can't.