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October 20th, 2005

09:36 am - cross-pollination
This is a repost of someone on my FL that at least half of my readership does not know, and therefore would have missed, but I knew you'd like it. Yanked from

megasus4 reposting some guy going by

geoff_chaucer (and discovered by

brannen):

Wha be tha blake prevy lawe
That bene wantoun too alle tha feres?
SHAFT!
Ya damne righte!

Wha be tha carl tha riske is hals wolt
Fro is allye leve?
SHAFT!
Konne ye?

Wha be tha carl wha wolden flee
Whan peril bene all aboughte?
SHAFT!
Verray!

Alle clepe tha carl ane badde mooder-swyver
SOFTE!
Speken of Shaft bene I.
THAN KONNE ALLES WE!

He be a man konne unnethes
Namo save is mayde konnes im.
JOHN SHAFT!

Tags: flong, i see dead people, music, quotable

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From:	eac
Date:	October 20th, 2005 04:47 pm (UTC)

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Arrrrrrrrggghh.

You make my brain hurt.

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From:	hwrnmnbsol
Date:	October 20th, 2005 04:55 pm (UTC)

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That's right up there with the Latin translation of I Like Big Butts.

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From:	nancy73
Date:	October 20th, 2005 05:01 pm (UTC)

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it just gets better and better every time I read it!

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From:	palecur
Date:	October 20th, 2005 05:26 pm (UTC)

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gold, sir. pure gold.

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From:	tongodeon
Date:	October 20th, 2005 07:15 pm (UTC)

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matrygg really needs to read this.

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From:	megasus4
Date:	October 20th, 2005 07:34 pm (UTC)

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I have printed out a copy and placed it on one of the class bulletin boards. I did so without ceremony or attention (figuring I don't need to call attention to "damne"), but I look forward with glee to the day the kids realize it's there. I did just teach them about Middle English, after all.

Hopefully, they won't ask what "swyver" means....

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From:	matrygg
Date:	October 20th, 2005 07:52 pm (UTC)

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My god, this rocks...

Imma gonna spread it.

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From:	tongodeon
Date:	October 20th, 2005 08:51 pm (UTC)

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Is it actually written correctly, mister olde englysh experte?

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From:	matrygg
Date:	October 20th, 2005 09:24 pm (UTC)

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Well, it looks right, but I'd need to sit down and look at it to tell if it makes sense from a dialect standpoint. I'm not nearly an expert in Middle English, but there are five dialect groups that each have things different. That said, there is mixing in most works, so if nothing else it could probably be an example of mixing if nothing else.

When I'm not sitting here with my developer hat on, I'll check it out. I did change the th combinations back to thorns and the gh combinations back to yogh's when I reposted it. But spelling isn't normalized, so that's not necessarily wrong either.

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From:	tongodeon
Date:	October 20th, 2005 11:43 pm (UTC)

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Note to

dwenius: he's corrected the typos here.

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From:	spiritualmonkey
Date:	October 24th, 2005 05:59 pm (UTC)

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Totally awesome! Someone buy this person a mead!

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From:	theservant
Date:	October 25th, 2005 04:22 pm (UTC)

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Now that is just absolutely brilliant. Thanks!

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From:	geoff_chaucer
Date:	October 25th, 2005 04:25 pm (UTC)

EDITED VERSION

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((I had no idea this would get so much play. Here's a link to the edited version, however -- it was late when I wrote the first one, and there was one word that shouldn't have appeared and one that got left out.))

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