Anyone firmiliar with The Canterbury Tales?

Re: Anyone firmiliar with The Canterbury Tales?

TC, you can read Old English? It's a fascinating language!
 
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I'm a masta at Old English. ;)
 
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It's not really a language you can learn in any conventional sense. You have to read, and re-read, and re-read what you've re-read. And then logically decode what it says.

Make any sense? :D
 
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:D

Because I still haven't found a copy with the Parson's Tale!
 
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Oh absolutely TC! I've studied it myself a bit actually. Very, very interesting to see how things have changed between then and now. It explains a lot of the peculiar things about English!

Linguistics has always fascinated me. I love it. In fact I have a site dedicated to (yes laugh now) the languages J.R.R. Tolkien created. I was impressed by how real he made them! Honestly quite amazing (though to be expected I suppose from a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford).

http://sindarin.weet.us

I have a few articles I have writtern up there. One is quite dated but the other on syntax is new enough.
 
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The funny thing about Old English is seeing it in its written form. You can see where modern English evolved from it, but it's so darn German . . . speakers of both languages could pick it fairly quickly . . .
 
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My friend had a teacher in high school that spoke Elvish.
 
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Agreed David!

TC:

I don't speak Elvish per se :D. I'm personally more interested in the technical side. It's a bit like old english - you can't really learn to speak it; there are too many variables both internal (we don't have enough data to construct a full grammar) and external (the darn guy kep changing his mind at times!)
 
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I hear tell of people who speak nothing but Klingon to each other.

I find that highly disturbing.
 
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I guess it's not as sad as spending $25,000 real USD to buy a virtual island in an online game.
 
Re: Anyone firmiliar with The Canterbury Tales?

Hahaha! What game was that? Everquest?

Klingons creator is still alive though which makes it easier to deal with (nothing as easy as a real language of course)!
 
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