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On 9/15/16 3:46 PM, Tim wrote:
2:21 PMKeyser Soze
- show quoted text -
Ah, so you've been to a TeaParty or Trump rally!

Seriously, English has evolved tremendously in the centuries since its
Germanic and Anglo-Saxon origins. It is unlikely you would have
understood many of the "English" words spoken by my favorite lady of
history,Eleanor of Acquitaine, and for many reasons.

Here's a sentence or two from Beowulf:

Sona þæt gesawon snottre ceorlas,
þa ðe mid Hroðgare on holm wliton,
þæt wæs yðgeblond eal gemenged,
brim blode fah. Blondenfeaxe,
gomele ymb godne, ongeador spræcon
þæt hig þæs æðelinges eft ne wendon
þæt he sigehreðig secean come
mærne þeoden; þa ðæs monige gewearð
þæt hine seo brimwylf abroten hæfde.
....

Bet you don't understand it either. Lol!



Actually, in college, I could have worked through a line by line
translation with minimal assistance from textbooks. Now, I can struggle
through a good part of it, but not as easily as in the good old days.
Blondenfeaxe doesn't mean blond, by the way. :)

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Keyser Soze wrote:
On 9/15/16 3:46 PM, Tim wrote:
2:21 PMKeyser Soze
- show quoted text -
Ah, so you've been to a TeaParty or Trump rally!

Seriously, English has evolved tremendously in the centuries since its
Germanic and Anglo-Saxon origins. It is unlikely you would have
understood many of the "English" words spoken by my favorite lady of
history,Eleanor of Acquitaine, and for many reasons.

Here's a sentence or two from Beowulf:

Sona þæt gesawon snottre ceorlas,
þa ðe mid Hroðgare on holm wliton,
þæt wæs yðgeblond eal gemenged,
brim blode fah. Blondenfeaxe,
gomele ymb godne, ongeador spræcon
þæt hig þæs æðelinges eft ne wendon
þæt he sigehreðig secean come
mærne þeoden; þa ðæs monige gewearð
þæt hine seo brimwylf abroten hæfde.
....

Bet you don't understand it either. Lol!



Actually, in college, I could have worked through a line by line
translation with minimal assistance from textbooks. Now, I can struggle
through a good part of it, but not as easily as in the good old days.
Blondenfeaxe doesn't mean blond, by the way. :)


It was also not English.

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On 9/15/16 5:32 PM, Califbill wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote:
On 9/15/16 3:46 PM, Tim wrote:
2:21 PMKeyser Soze
- show quoted text -
Ah, so you've been to a TeaParty or Trump rally!

Seriously, English has evolved tremendously in the centuries since its
Germanic and Anglo-Saxon origins. It is unlikely you would have
understood many of the "English" words spoken by my favorite lady of
history,Eleanor of Acquitaine, and for many reasons.

Here's a sentence or two from Beowulf:

Sona þæt gesawon snottre ceorlas,
þa ðe mid Hroðgare on holm wliton,
þæt wæs yðgeblond eal gemenged,
brim blode fah. Blondenfeaxe,
gomele ymb godne, ongeador spræcon
þæt hig þæs æðelinges eft ne wendon
þæt he sigehreðig secean come
mærne þeoden; þa ðæs monige gewearð
þæt hine seo brimwylf abroten hæfde.
....

Bet you don't understand it either. Lol!



Actually, in college, I could have worked through a line by line
translation with minimal assistance from textbooks. Now, I can struggle
through a good part of it, but not as easily as in the good old days.
Blondenfeaxe doesn't mean blond, by the way. :)


It was also not English.


As I stated, English evolved from its Germanic and Anglo-Saxon origins.
Old English was English before it evolved into modern English
but...French was an official language in the Norman courts and elsewhere
in England. I suspect many of the most highly regarded citizens in those
days were polyglots. The Magna Carta was written in medieval Latin. All
those languages being used are fascinating, especially since in our
modern times, a huge percentage of their white Anglo-Saxon descendants
in this country, 'Merica, can barely speak and write English.

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Keyser Soze wrote:
On 9/15/16 5:32 PM, Califbill wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote:
On 9/15/16 3:46 PM, Tim wrote:
2:21 PMKeyser Soze
- show quoted text -
Ah, so you've been to a TeaParty or Trump rally!

Seriously, English has evolved tremendously in the centuries since its
Germanic and Anglo-Saxon origins. It is unlikely you would have
understood many of the "English" words spoken by my favorite lady of
history,Eleanor of Acquitaine, and for many reasons.

Here's a sentence or two from Beowulf:

Sona þæt gesawon snottre ceorlas,
þa ðe mid Hroðgare on holm wliton,
þæt wæs yðgeblond eal gemenged,
brim blode fah. Blondenfeaxe,
gomele ymb godne, ongeador spræcon
þæt hig þæs æðelinges eft ne wendon
þæt he sigehreðig secean come
mærne þeoden; þa ðæs monige gewearð
þæt hine seo brimwylf abroten hæfde.
....

Bet you don't understand it either. Lol!



Actually, in college, I could have worked through a line by line
translation with minimal assistance from textbooks. Now, I can struggle
through a good part of it, but not as easily as in the good old days.
Blondenfeaxe doesn't mean blond, by the way. :)


It was also not English.


As I stated, English evolved from its Germanic and Anglo-Saxon origins.
Old English was English before it evolved into modern English
but...French was an official language in the Norman courts and elsewhere
in England. I suspect many of the most highly regarded citizens in those
days were polyglots. The Magna Carta was written in medieval Latin. All
those languages being used are fascinating, especially since in our
modern times, a huge percentage of their white Anglo-Saxon descendants
in this country, 'Merica, can barely speak and write English.


It was neither old English or modern English. You were stating old English
of Lady Aquitaine. You need toreador what you are responding about, so you
know to stay on subject.

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On 9/15/16 9:35 PM, Califbill wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote:
On 9/15/16 5:32 PM, Califbill wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote:
On 9/15/16 3:46 PM, Tim wrote:
2:21 PMKeyser Soze
- show quoted text -
Ah, so you've been to a TeaParty or Trump rally!

Seriously, English has evolved tremendously in the centuries since its
Germanic and Anglo-Saxon origins. It is unlikely you would have
understood many of the "English" words spoken by my favorite lady of
history,Eleanor of Acquitaine, and for many reasons.

Here's a sentence or two from Beowulf:

Sona þæt gesawon snottre ceorlas,
þa ðe mid Hroðgare on holm wliton,
þæt wæs yðgeblond eal gemenged,
brim blode fah. Blondenfeaxe,
gomele ymb godne, ongeador spræcon
þæt hig þæs æðelinges eft ne wendon
þæt he sigehreðig secean come
mærne þeoden; þa ðæs monige gewearð
þæt hine seo brimwylf abroten hæfde.
....

Bet you don't understand it either. Lol!



Actually, in college, I could have worked through a line by line
translation with minimal assistance from textbooks. Now, I can struggle
through a good part of it, but not as easily as in the good old days.
Blondenfeaxe doesn't mean blond, by the way. :)


It was also not English.


As I stated, English evolved from its Germanic and Anglo-Saxon origins.
Old English was English before it evolved into modern English
but...French was an official language in the Norman courts and elsewhere
in England. I suspect many of the most highly regarded citizens in those
days were polyglots. The Magna Carta was written in medieval Latin. All
those languages being used are fascinating, especially since in our
modern times, a huge percentage of their white Anglo-Saxon descendants
in this country, 'Merica, can barely speak and write English.


It was neither old English or modern English. You were stating old English
of Lady Aquitaine. You need toreador what you are responding about, so you
know to stay on subject.



Sorry, Bilious, but you've lost yourself and me. What was neither Old
English or Modern English? French?
Eleanor of Acquitaine spoke the French of her day, Middle English,
Latin, and probably the German of her day. Plus, I am sure her
vocabulary included many Old English words and phrases.

English is a perfect metaphor in many ways for Darwin's Theory of
Evolution, and the language's evolution makes a great argument to use
against the religious simpletons who don't believe in that process.

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On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 09:52:26 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:


English is a perfect metaphor in many ways for Darwin's Theory of
Evolution, and the language's evolution makes a great argument to use
against the religious simpletons who don't believe in that process.

You be trippin yo.

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On Friday, September 16, 2016 at 11:11:26 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 09:52:26 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:


English is a perfect metaphor in many ways for Darwin's Theory of
Evolution, and the language's evolution makes a great argument to use
against the religious simpletons who don't believe in that process.

You be trippin yo.

LOL!

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On 9/16/16 11:10 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 09:52:26 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:


English is a perfect metaphor in many ways for Darwin's Theory of
Evolution, and the language's evolution makes a great argument to use
against the religious simpletons who don't believe in that process.

You be trippin yo.


Why? It's easy enough to show the evolution or changes in language made
by humans over time, both in the language itself and in the meanings and
changes in words. Understanding evolution, after all, requires a mind
able to think at at least the junior high school level, which may be too
advanced for the creationism religious simpletons.

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On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 11:42:34 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

English is a perfect metaphor in many ways for Darwin's Theory of
Evolution, and the language's evolution makes a great argument to use
against the religious simpletons who don't believe in that process.

You be trippin yo.


Why? It's easy enough to show the evolution or changes in language made
by humans over time, both in the language itself and in the meanings and
changes in words. Understanding evolution, after all, requires a mind
able to think at at least the junior high school level, which may be too
advanced for the creationism religious simpletons.

===

The "evolution" of a language however is entirely different than the
evolution of a species. In the case of the latter, the species
evolves because less fit members have less success procreating
themselves and vice versa. Language of course does not procreate, and
therefore can not evolve in a Darwinian sense. Quod erat
demonstrandum.

It is important that the brain get enough oxygen 24 hours a day.

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On 9/16/16 2:25 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 11:42:34 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

English is a perfect metaphor in many ways for Darwin's Theory of
Evolution, and the language's evolution makes a great argument to use
against the religious simpletons who don't believe in that process.

You be trippin yo.


Why? It's easy enough to show the evolution or changes in language made
by humans over time, both in the language itself and in the meanings and
changes in words. Understanding evolution, after all, requires a mind
able to think at at least the junior high school level, which may be too
advanced for the creationism religious simpletons.

===

The "evolution" of a language however is entirely different than the
evolution of a species. In the case of the latter, the species
evolves because less fit members have less success procreating
themselves and vice versa. Language of course does not procreate, and
therefore can not evolve in a Darwinian sense. Quod erat
demonstrandum.

It is important that the brain get enough oxygen 24 hours a day.


It's important to notice a word like "metaphor" and a phrase like
"metaphor in many ways" and what the word metaphor means and how a
metaphor may be used.

Once again, for the language impaired he "English is a perfect
metaphor in many ways for Darwin's Theory of
Evolution."

Not in every way, but in many ways.

Now, why not devote yourself to what I am sure you do best, W'hine: go
**** up a rope. Literally.