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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I’m definitely not an expert at all, but that looks more like Middle English than Old English to me.

Old English is often intelligible to those familiar with modern english, and is more germanic and celtic than english (take a look at the Beowulf manuscript for an example.)

In Middle English, you can make out most of the words, which I can here.


6 posted on 05/22/2008 10:52:01 AM PDT by bamahead (Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
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To: bamahead
I thought it was more like Shakespearean/Elizabethan Era than Middle.

ME is still pretty hard to translate; but this one's not so horribly hard.

14 posted on 05/22/2008 10:57:55 AM PDT by bannie (clintons CHEAT! It's their only weapon.; & Barry/Barack has two faces.)
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