olde english
 

there's a mighty cool website with alot of cool sketch comedy. it's called www.oldeenglish.org . there's alotta great videos.
for first timers i reccomend the "rap video". anyway, check it ouut:rolleyes:

Oh, man, I thought this was going to be another thread about obscure dialects! I am soooooooooo disappointed.

obsecure dialects? explain

just read "the taming of the shrew" in english and you'll see what it's all about!

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1107

Nope, Shakespere isn't in old english, or even middle english, it's just in plain old modern english with a few archaic words.
Old English is closer to German than it is to Modern English, Beowulf, Ceademon's Hymn, Beade, shit like that. Middle English is somewhere in between, most famous would be Chaucer.


EDIT: or maybe Beade's in latin, can't quite remember. Ah well.

Wow, you never know what you can learn on the sy board! Thanks!!!! Very enlightening!!!!

Example:
Nu sculon herigean heofonrices weard,
meotodes meahte and his modgeþanc,
weorc wuldorfæder, swa he wundra gehwæs,
ece drihten, or onstealde.
He ærest sceop eorðan bearnum
heofon to hrofe, halig scyppend;
þa middangeard moncynnes weard,
ece drihten, æfter teode
firum foldan, frea ælmihtig

Actually that link doesn't seem to be working. Oh dear.

i thought it was going to be about cider

its an awsome sketch comedy website. go to it

did anyone look?

A bump because there's some great videos on this website

I recommend Astronauts, project runway, pokemon day, report card, prank boyz, gym class, hello? fuck, dead puppies, rap video