Middle English

09.05.03, 11:35
yea...how to translate Middle English and Modern Italian into POlish? please
help!!!

Patka
    • zegar4 Re: Middle English 14.05.03, 04:33
      Lessee, you can call it the language of the William –
      through – Guttenberg era,
      or post-Anglo-Saxon, pre-modern English;
      or - are you brave? - the peasant's English,
      or Chaucer's (Chaucerian) English.

      I'm not sure that's helpful though...
      • chickenshorts Re: Middle English 14.05.03, 08:04
        zegar4 napisała:

        > Lessee, you can call it the language of the William –
        > through – Guttenberg era,
        > or post-Anglo-Saxon, pre-modern English;
        > or - are you brave? - the peasant's English,
        > or Chaucer's (Chaucerian) English.
        >
        > I'm not sure that's helpful though...
      • chickenshorts Re: Middle English 14.05.03, 08:06
        zegar4 napisała:

        > Lessee, you can call it the language of the William –
        > through – Guttenberg era,
        > or post-Anglo-Saxon, pre-modern English;
        > or - are you brave? - the peasant's English,
        > or Chaucer's (Chaucerian) English.

        I've always thought that Chaucer was Old English...?



        • zegar4 Re: Middle English 16.05.03, 05:19
          chickenshorts napisał:

          >
          > I've always thought that Chaucer was Old English...?


          Let's take a squint to get our ducks in order.
          Whatever was spoken before the invasion by the Normans in
          the mid-eleventh century is known today as the Old or
          Anglo-Saxon lingo. Modern means from 1500 onward, give or
          take a few decades. Chaucer lived in the fourteenth
          century, which, according to this nomenclature and the
          timeline, puts him in the middling peasant phylum, as it
          were.

          Best,
          Z.
          • Gość: chickenShorts Re: Middle English IP: *.w80-15.abo.wanadoo.fr 16.05.03, 08:52
            zegar4 napisała:

            > chickenshorts napisał:
            >
            > >
            > > I've always thought that Chaucer was Old English...?

            > Modern means from 1500 onward, give or
            > take a few decades. Chaucer lived in the fourteenth
            > century, which, according to this nomenclature and the
            > timeline, puts him in the middling peasant phylum, as it
            > were.

            > Best,
            > Z.

            Yep, you are right, of course!

            Must be "tales" & "Canterbury", that made me think of Old... :)
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