Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 06:23:27 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: mrami@minerva.cis.yale.edu Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT Message-ID: <199603271123.GAA05054@hda.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960327013424.11045B-100000@mramirez.sy.yale.edu> from "Marc Ramirez" at Mar 27, 96 01:52:22 am
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> > Nor would I expect an English speaker to understand Old English. In > fact, you'd probably have an easier time understanding OE than most > English speakers. "Her Cynewulf benam Sigebryht his rices ..." -> "Hier > Cynewulf benahm Sigebryht seines Reiches ..." The verb 'niman' completely > disappeared, being replaced by Old Norse 'taka', and OE 'rice' only survives > in the modern 'rich'... For the curious: http://icg.harvard.edu/~oe102/CynewulfText.html -- Temporarily via "hdalog@zipnet.net"... Peter Dufault Real-Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267
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