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Aussie restaurateur Paul Mathis invents new letter of the Alphabet
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Posted on 07/09/2013 6:43:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: katana
It’s The Prologue to Canterbury Tales, written in English................OLDE ENGLISH.............
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posted on
07/09/2013 7:38:21 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
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To: JenB
I could see a new letter for the ‘th’ dipthong. But the list for each unique sound is enormous. And there are plenty of sounds that are used in other languages and missing in English. One of those sounds is the real sound of ‘f’ in the Japanese pronounciation of Fuji (I can't pronounce it, revenge for our 'l', LOL).
So I say we have enough letters as it is, government schools have enough trouble teaching just those.
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posted on
07/09/2013 7:39:08 AM PDT
by
RadiationRomeo
(Step into my mind and glimpse the madness that is me)
To: DoughtyOne
With Hip-Hop and Gangsta words infiltrating the vernacular, I can’t understand a lot of what is spoken today.........8^(
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posted on
07/09/2013 7:39:53 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
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To: RadiationRomeo
dipthong = dipЋong
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posted on
07/09/2013 7:43:04 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
I agree. And it’s not really the hip-hop culture that bothers me half as much as the main-stream media’s adoption of the whole thing like it’s a good addition to our society.
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posted on
07/09/2013 7:44:11 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Breaking News: Hillary not running in 2016. Brain tumor found during recent colonoscopy...)
To: RadiationRomeo
(I can't pronounce it, revenge for our 'l', LOL). ROR!........RAFF OUT ROUD!..........
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posted on
07/09/2013 7:44:43 AM PDT
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Red Badger
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To: the scotsman
During WWII, the Brits and the Americans had a difficult time communicating even simple things, prompting Churchill to remark, “Two great nations separated by a common language.....”
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posted on
07/09/2013 7:47:02 AM PDT
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Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
Figured it was something along those lines. Undoubtedly old Germanic (Angle and Saxon) in origin, when spoken with a sort of Scots burr it was quite a lovely sounding language.
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posted on
07/09/2013 8:24:27 AM PDT
by
katana
(Just my opinions)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
07/09/2013 8:27:27 AM PDT
by
AZ .44 MAG
(Repeal Obama)
To: Red Badger
Dr. Seuss did a book about the letters after Z in the alphabet, decades ago.
The Emperor Claudius invented three new letters of the alphabet. The Romans used them until Claudius died.
To: Verginius Rufus
The Romans used them until Claudius died. Ћ End............
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posted on
07/09/2013 8:54:14 AM PDT
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Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
Geez. Isn’t 47 letters in the alphabet enough?
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posted on
07/09/2013 10:41:16 AM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: DManA
*^ = I love Big Barack. Well for now, "Big Barack" is still symbolized as follows:
(_*_)
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posted on
07/09/2013 11:29:28 AM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
07/09/2013 4:23:31 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
To: V_TWIN
My hubby who’s initials are TH has been drawing it that way since childhood.
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posted on
07/09/2013 6:49:30 PM PDT
by
MomwithHope
(Buy and read Ameritopia by Mark Levin!)
To: NonValueAdded
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posted on
07/09/2013 6:54:57 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: Red Badger
So what? Holly decimalised music by adding two notes. Top that!
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posted on
07/09/2013 6:59:33 PM PDT
by
Rides_A_Red_Horse
(Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
To: katana
He's wrong. That's Middle English. Old English (Anglo-Saxon) is a linguistic descendant of Old High German, and included the thorn (Þ), the edh (ð) and the ash (æ) characters. It is the language of the epic Beowulf and is strongly cased (meaning that case endings, rather than word order, determined the function of words within a sentence). For example, a dialect of Old English would have represented the sentence of "The boy killed the dragon" as Þe cnapa sloh ðe dracan. In Modern English, if you reverse the word order, you get "The dragon killed the boy." But in Old English, Þe dracan sloh ðe cnapa still means "The boy killed the dragon," since the subject is demonstrated by the nominative case ending -a and the direct object by the case ending -an. To get "The dragon killed the boy" you would need Þe draca sloh ðe cnapan.
As you will note, the selection from Chaucer does NOT contain case endings (except for those that have survived into Modern English). After the Norman Invasion in 1066, the Anglo-Saxon language was subborned to the native French of William the Conqueror and his cohorts. For this reason, The old Germanic Anglo-Saxon language was supplanted by Middle English (a combination of some A-S words, some Latin words, and many French words). Rather than a Scottish burr, it should be spoke with a French elision and vowels that do not change in pronunciation (we're before the great vowel shift that gave us multiple sounds for each vowel). "A" is ah, like in bawl; e is eh, like in wet; i is ee, like in beat; and so on.
The proper pronunciation of the first line from Chaucer would have been like : Wh-ah-n th-ah-t Ah-preel weeth hees shoh-wehrs sh-oh-t, etc (with vowels separated in my transliteration, but not in actual speech).
So, in reality, the thorn character was used in Anglo-Saxon (Old English), but was gone from Chaucer's dialect of Middle English by the time he wrote (but it still existed in some northern dialects of Middle English... like that of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight... but that's a whole other discussion)...
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