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 Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:27 pm
Knew I'd found something relevant at Georgetown University...If anyone's looking for manuscript transcriptions... http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/oe/old_english.htmlOn a side note, if you want to get more specific English is classified as a north Germanic language (which puts it with Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, etc.). German is a west Germanic language. Only east Germanic language known is Gothic, but almost nothing survives of that language today.
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:45 am
spanishnerd99 What caused ancient English to change to modern English? My answer isn't nearly as sophisticated as Kaji's, but, it was primarily foreign influence. From French, Latin, etc. domokun
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 2:43 pm
Kaji01 spanishnerd99 What caused ancient English to change to modern English? There are a variety of reasons. The change from Old English to Middle English came when the Normans took over England under William the Conqueror in 1066. This caused Old French vocabulary to be introduced to English, creating Middle English. In a sense you could say that Old English persisted for a number of years more because most of the Norman vocabulary was used by the upper class, while the Saxon vocabulary was used by the masses. By the time Chaucer wrote the Canterbury tales it was pretty safe to say that everyone was speaking Middle English though, partially because of the fact that the Normans had separated from the English under the rule of King John I. Modern English is generally assumed to have come about around the time that the King James Bible and Shakespeare's works were published, and soldified as the industrial age came into being, which caused the English vocabulary to grow faster than ever before. Wow! Thank you! biggrin 4laugh
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:07 am
There was also the interactions between the various kingdoms in England.
See, what happened was before 1066, there was one dominant group in England and they set the literary standard. So everyone wrote in something close to that and it kept the country together a bit. But when the Normans conquered England, if anyone wrote anything, they wrote it in French. So the individual English dialects separated a great deal during that time. When English became popular again, they had to re-meet each other and a lot of sound shifts took place at that time.
I'm studying this at the moment, actually. I'm taking a course called The History of the English Language. I found it so interesting that I went out and bought a book. I'm about half way through it now. It's a little dry if you don't like phonetics, but it's really quite thorough. It's called The English Language: A Historical Introduction by Charles Berber. My professor recommended it to me and I will recommend it to anyone with an interest in this sort of thing smile
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:32 am
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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:56 pm
Does anyone know of universities offering courses in Old English? Or better yet, good books or other resources? I'd much rather learn Old English than Latin in the future wink
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Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 3:07 pm
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 10:12 am
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 6:13 am
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:32 am
Sluvotsky I remember reading this li'l thing and it was all. Hast thu hafoc? - Do you have a hawk? Gea, ic habbe - Yes, I have (one). Und kannst thu theiman hic? - And can you train him? Gea, ic kann. - Yes, I can. If anyone actually knows any German, that is so similar, it's not funny. Hast thu hafoc? - Hast du Falke. Gea, ic habbe - Ja, ich habe. Und kannst thu theirman hic? - Und kannst du bilden er? Gea, ic kann. Ja, ich kann.
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Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 6:27 am
WellzY Sluvotsky I remember reading this li'l thing and it was all. Hast thu hafoc? - Do you have a hawk? Gea, ic habbe - Yes, I have (one). Und kannst thu theiman hic? - And can you train him? Gea, ic kann. - Yes, I can. If anyone actually knows any German, that is so similar, it's not funny. Hast thu hafoc? - Hast du Falke. Gea, ic habbe - Ja, ich habe. Und kannst thu theirman hic? - Und kannst du bilden er? Gea, ic kann. Ja, ich kann. Und kannst du ihn bilden?* Es tut mir leid, aber ich muss dein deutsch stimmen. Aber ich weiß nicht, ob "bilden" ist oder ist nicht das korrekte Wort..
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:24 am
Better of Two Evils WellzY Sluvotsky I remember reading this li'l thing and it was all. Hast thu hafoc? - Do you have a hawk? Gea, ic habbe - Yes, I have (one). Und kannst thu theiman hic? - And can you train him? Gea, ic kann. - Yes, I can. If anyone actually knows any German, that is so similar, it's not funny. Hast thu hafoc? - Hast du Falke. Gea, ic habbe - Ja, ich habe. Und kannst thu theirman hic? - Und kannst du bilden er? Gea, ic kann. Ja, ich kann. Und kannst du ihn bilden?* Es tut mir leid, aber ich muss dein deutsch stimmen. Aber ich weiß nicht, ob "bilden" ist oder ist nicht das korrekte Wort.. *shrug* You probably have more authority than me on that.
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:07 pm
I made a mistake too....."korrekt Wort" I believe. Since Wort is a neuter word....
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:40 pm
What's the grammical difference between thy and thou? As I understand it, they both mean 'your.'
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:44 pm
It depends on tense: thou is nominative nad thy is genetive.
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