patkag 09.05.03, 11:35 yea...how to translate Middle English and Modern Italian into POlish? please help!!! Patka Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś czytaj wygodnie posty
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... Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
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... Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
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...? Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
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. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
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... :) Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś