i believe in thyne.
good shit, Mizuki
Also, there’s a big difference between “proper” English and “biblical” English.
You people are failures.
…seriously.
don’t let quiche push you guys around. he thinks he knows all about ye olde tyme english because he has a curly mustache. son is trippin! he needs to prescribe himself a chill pill.
Actually Amason was how the word was spelled in Old English. You’ll get 'em next time, buddy.
Ouch.
DS: Yes I can, Get to picking that corn, I got some posole to make this weekend.
“Become vagabond. Thou shan’t vie against mine potence”
Really? Source?
But yeah, I agree with Quiche, using words with more than three syllables and destroying the grammar, does not “Ye Olde English” make.
Meh, I googled it for 10 seconds and couldn’t find one. It’s just sort of something I picked up during my try-to-read-classic-books phase. Remember, it wasn’t until the 18th century that spelling in English really started becoming codified, so people spelled things in lots of different ways before that, especially back under old English when it was almost a different language. But whatever, I’m not about to spend the time to source all that.
I read classics all the time, and i’ve never come across that spelling. Probably because I don’t read too much classic literature dealing with Ama"s"onian women.
Yeah, for a while I was all about like Chaucer and Milton and Bacon and Shakespeare and stuff, as well as guys like Hobbes and Locke and all that. Chaucer is Old English, although I guess the others are more like, Middle English or Early Modern. So maybe I shouldn’t have said Old English, but I came across it at some point from some older version of the language.
Chaucer is Middle English. Shakespeare is a prime example of Early Modern English.
Old English isn’t really English at all, but a mix of the barbarian gruntings of Norse, Germanic, and Celtic languages back when the Saxons were raping ye olde England (think Beowulf).
I’m imagining the porn-guy sounds of yore.
quiche owned this thread up.
Ah, that’s right, thanks. Hot times.
Hot, hot, Anglo-Saxon action.
Awesome mental image.
lol.
Depends really what you mean by “Old English”. English in the 1500s differed from English in the 1600s, which was completely different from English in the 1800s. However, people tend to just lump all of these together.
What Mizuki is going for is mid 1800s, Victorian Era English.
I liked Chaucer, Locke and Shakespeare, but would rather stab myself in the groin than voluntarily read Milton.
But wait wait wait, was this thread supposed to be about old English, or just British/posh English?
“Observing you in your antics is a mockery”, the win quote which started this thread off, is a sentence that could still be used today, even though it makes the one saying it sound a tad silly.
In any future adapted win quotes, let’s refrain from such words as thee, thy, thine, thou, etc. Shall we?
“You shall have to best Sheng Long in order to have a possibility of being successful!”