Merkins

[Beverly Flanigan]

And "hwaet" would be self-evident!

At 08:46 PM 10/19/2006, you wrote:
>Old English was better, though not so good as Proto-Indo-European.  The
>case grammar forced you to diagram sentences in your head as you spoke.
>This helped you speak more slowly with clearer enunciation and at the same
>time gave the logic muscles in your brain a healthy workout.
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>   Daet waes g o d spraec !
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>   JL
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>David Bergdahl <dlbrgdhl at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> > I don't think changing traditional spelling (tradspel) is doable.
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>I think we should mandate Middle English pronunciation from now on-- that
>way we could all get meaningful (gov't) employment teaching people how to
>reverse chain shifts &c. and to pronounce words tha weg the waere meante to
>be.
>-db
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