Very nice, Savage I wish I paid more attention in school to able to read old english.
Any one else certain dialects up to today ( though not so much ) kept in with the pronounciation of certain of these words but not the spelling in england.
Ure ( or oor ) is still in use in places such as Tyneside, or Cumbria.
Well, I can't read Old English without the Modern English translation beside it. It's really really hard otherwise ;P I had a great english teacher that woke this interest in me, I was interested in history before too, but not as much the history of languages.
Old English, like Victorians, is like how Yoda speaks.
Not really. It's more like the grammar that we have in Scandinavia, and in Germany too I expect (I shoulda studied german...)
Examples:
Modern English: "You do not like me"
Middle English: "Thou likest me not"
Yoda English: "Like me you do not"
(Swedish: "Du gillar mig inte", it match Middle English word for word)
Absolutely Fabulous! (and fascinating, too)
Great that people who find these things interesting actually exist in a crowd like this :thumbsup:
Oooooh! SNAP! :facepalm:
You go girlfriend
See my reply to Gabriel's post if you haven't already, then compare the two texts side by side and it'll actually make sense to read