Job Offer Received via email (Vanity)(Hilarious translation issues)

My email | 9/1/2021 | Nicole Lee

[pfflier]

Early modern english and redneck.

We have a few "methinks" crop up in posts. Now I know why.

[moovova]

“Are ya’ll stirred up by this appointment?”

I am.

[Don W]

I think that the letter from olde English/Norse you are referring to is named *Thorne*. It looks like this:
Þ
and as you say, is pronounced like “th” in the or there.

To get the letter to print like I did, hold down your alt key and using the numeric keypad type 0222

[pas]

Ya’ll shall not be obliged to transact with soggy boxes. That is a plus. Not much worse than transacting with soggy boxes.

[tnlibertarian]

Thanks. Looks like that is it. While the one you posted doesn’t look much like a Y, per Wikipedia (I know), later versions of it start to do so.

[tnlibertarian]

“Are ya’ll stirred up by this appointment?”

I am.

Made you 'shiver about', did it?

[dirtymac]

I get this same~ email two or three times a week. Must be working with some people or they would not keep doing it.

I guess none of the gov’t type agencies care about this type of blatant fraud, same for the Nigerian Prince and similar. None care, but by God you better be waring a mask.

[seowulf]

The Southern dialect is probably closer than any other American dialect to early modern (i.e. Shakespean) English.

But that email sounds like it’s from a Nigerian prince that learned English by reading The Merchant of Venice.

I would not recommend you take this job.

[fruser1]

I checked my dictionary and it indicates as you say except that the character substituted an old english character, not norse.

However, as the language changed primarily due to those pesky normans, it may very well have norse origin as you indicate.

[notdownwidems]

So...did you get the job?

[radmanptn]

All right I did that and got Þ. So out of curiosity I typed atl 0228 and got ä still being curious it typed alt 0871 and got ͧ is there a cross reference for this somewhere?

[21twelve]

“Things that will be UR upright capacities: get packs out of 1 transmitter, make another pack for them following our comradeship’s brief, and to forward packs to additional man.”

Sounds like a Chicom scheme to spread the Covid around faster.

[21twelve]

“... possibly might be potentially...”

In writing proposals I always have conditions that includes “may not” in them. (”We may not be able to detect all....”) I might need to change that!

[Don W]

https://www.alt-codes.net/#:~:text=Alt%20Codes%20%20%20%20Symbol%20%20,%20%20130%20%2016%20more%20rows%20

[Lazamataz]

You have just been offered a job by GibberishBot.

[radmanptn]

thanks I may actually make use of some of them

[tnlibertarian]

Thanks! I needed the § symbol the other day and had to google it Alt+21

[telescope115]

Speaking like that in a bar-“ I’ll have a whithkey thtone thour, pleathe”

[Governor Dinwiddie]

I think this is bogus because of the use of "Ye". Perhaps I'm wrong but I always thought 'Ye' = 'The' (the 'Y' being the representation of thorn the old English representation of the 'Th' sound). 'Thou' would be our modern 'You' (nominative case obviously).

[Hiddigeigei]

When I was growing up in Maryland, the Quakers used the “thee” and “thou” when speaking one to another, and occasionally my mother would use it when speaking to me or my brother. However, I don’t think they would use the word “thine” as a possessive before a work beginning with a consonant sound.