[Hornlist] Re: The power (or lack of it) of language

2006-03-13 Thread KendallBetts 
 
Ralph wrote:

Old guys  like me lament that the younger generation has no respect for or 
even  knowledge of 
my language as it was taught to me, ignoring that English  used to look and 
sound the way Chaucer wrote it, and that one 
day, English  as I speak it will be as remote and inaccessible to future 
generations as the  Canterbury Tales are to me.


Yeah, same is true of music, too, I'm afraid.
 
KB
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Re: [Hornlist] Re: The power (or lack of it) of language

2006-03-13 Thread YATESLAWRENCE 
 
In a message dated 13/03/2006 13:27:44 GMT Standard Time, Ralph  writes:

one  
day, English  as I speak it will be as remote and inaccessible to  future 
generations as the  Canterbury Tales are to  me


 
Chaucer innaccessible?  Try the Anglo Saxon Chronicles! (or Deor - see  below)
 
All the best,
 
Lawrence 
 
þaes  ofereode - þisses swa maeg (That passed over/by, so may  this)
 
 
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