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Both the 'you' and the 'h' word
I think you'll find, maahey, that on this highly respected international linguistics forum we are very decorous; we respeck parper spelling and we acknowledge © and ®. We'll let you off with a warning this time because of your neophyte status but in the future, Harrumph®!
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highly respected international linguistics forum we are very decorous;
dood, that's like so kewl!
formerly known as etaoin...
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I've been meaning ask, ramasseur - how good is the hypothesising at that Niw Englisc site? The only thing I know about the original cversion is that some of my ancestors may have spoken it, so I am keen to hear an expert assessment of the merits of this revision.
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how good is the hypothesising at that Niw Englisc site?
Haven't had a chance to give it a good lookover, nor thought about all the ramifications of some of their choices. It acknowledges the Great Vowel Shift and retains the Englisc third person plural pronouns, eschewing the Danish ones that snuck in during the Danelaw. Whether the loss of grammatical gender is valid I don't know. I would suspect that it was also involved in the changes that went on as a result of the Danish influence. The choice of the as the invariant definite article is arbitrary and as good as any other, I suppose. Haven't studied the word choices in great depth. I'm a little bothered by their decision to retain the n in the indefinite article regardless of the start of the following word. Seems its assimilation would have occurred without any outside influences.
I guess, all in all, I'd give it mixed reviews.
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