Yep, yep, yep William the Conqueror that's it. The passage in the book I was thinking about went something like this, Swineherd talking: "Why is it that when we have to take care of it they call it by the saxon word, but when they get it on the table all fixed to eat they call it by the french word".
Now remember, I haven't read these books in the last 30 years or so. You know someone who speaks Old English? He must be really old :). Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ---------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 2:41 PM Subject: OT: English (Re: Health Warning) > Well, others answered the IR questions while I was busy, so here's > some off-topic stuff I know a smidgen about. > > > Probably when someone realized "que" was french for "k". When are you Limeys > > going to get over the fact you were invaded in 1092 (that the right date?) > > You're probably thinking of William's invasion in 1066, the Battle > of Hastings, and all that. One of the medieval re-enactment groups > I'm in does a small recreation of the battles of Hastings and Stamford > Bridge each October. > > > and go back to using Angel Saxton English instead of French English? <GRIN> > > Old English sounds a lot like German to me (I don't speak either, so I > don't know how similar they sound to a German speaker). > > Middle English is pretty cool, and I can nearly understand it[*]. As > far as I can tell, the jokes about Middle English being the result of > Norman soldiers trying to pick up Saxon women are about right. > > -- Glenn > > [*] BUt it's a pain to type in a mostly-ASCII environment, what with > thorns and eths and yoghs and diaresis marks and all those other nifty > bits. Looks pretty cool typeset, though I wound up using a numeral > three in place of the yogh because I couldn't find a font with a yogh > in it compatible with the stuff I was using. > > > PS: One of the more intelligible bits, from the song, "Man mai longe > lives weene": > > Weilawei! Nis king ne queene thet ne ssel drink of deathes drench. > Man, er thu vall of thi bench, thi senn aquench. > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
