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(17,245 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)Sounds odd, eh? I bet the Norman invasion smoothed out the sound of the language.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)He did readings in Old Engilsh, I kid you not. But he was one of those guys who had white flecks of spittle at the corners of his lips, so what would you expect?
rug
(82,333 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,976 posts)One of them asks the other, "Are you a Chistian?" The other answers, "Yes, I believe in Christ. You?" "No, I believe in Wodin." There was also something about shields and broadaxes. If you know some German it helps. Probably knowing Icelandic might be useful as well.
rug
(82,333 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)It really shows you that old English is in fact, a Germanic language.
I always enjoyed Tolkien as well, and I ranted against the movie when they referred to a shortcut as a "detour". Ugh... So wrong. Hobbitses wouldn't use bloody French words!
They sound exactly like my Frisian father.
rug
(82,333 posts)For understanding, I grasp at their tone of voice like a drowning man reaching for an oar.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)I bet they get the gist of it. That's how I learnt Frisian as a child. I can't speak it, but I understood it easily enough when my aunts and uncles addressed me in it.
It's the tone and the rhythim that conveys half the message.
Hell, look at that word: rhythim. Doesn't it look foreign? Nordic even?
rug
(82,333 posts)Rhythm is Greek.(I had to check.)