Posted on 09/02/2021 11:22:18 AM PDT by tnlibertarian
I received this unsolicited job offering via email, written in some combination of Old English and Southern. Too funny not to share:
Good afternoon,
A new job for Batch Manager of ours parcel company has just been initiated. Our biz offers a vast pay cheque 'n' practice enrollment to receive thou as a worker of our management's deploying & intensely powerful squad.
We learned yours contacts thru the CareerBuilder online spot 'n' judge that thine knowledge possibly might be potentially interesting for us. When thou are shiver about our comradeship's stance, do not hesitate to write an e-mail to our biz so our staff chiefs would be of power to display you improved post's description.
Compensation: $ 4,000 a 4 weeks.
An appointment is for ones which can perform their work from dwelling. If thou would afford to bodily reside in yours dwelling from nine AM ending with 5 PM, ya'll might rise some buck. The kernel of our firm's job is to go with lots. 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. Ye has to be a flawless team member for opened non-office position if you are a just started to be a mother, a student of outlying direction of tuition, retired, unable to work normally outdoors man, or the human which hates to make departure dwelling to make function.
Ya'll shall not be obliged to transact with soggy boxes. Generally, you could search out habiliment or sports stuff inside boxes. Instructions is given with no charge. Everything you shall need to be employed by our company is a personal computer, entrance to the online network, and printer to be able to print notes for parcels. How much money thou will be able to earn relies upon only on thou – the more time you all function, the larger ye receive. Normally, men which only begin labor for our company receive about 1000 bucks per 7 days. Are ya'll stirred up by this appointment? Don't hesitate to contact us via online mail. But remember that being at dwelling from nine-hundred hours to 5 o'clock PM is a must to be able to be employed to mentioned position (in another case, mentioned appointment ain't for you all, unfortunately).
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We have a few "methinks" crop up in posts. Now I know why.
“Are ya’ll stirred up by this appointment?”
I am.
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
Ya’ll shall not be obliged to transact with soggy boxes. That is a plus. Not much worse than transacting with soggy boxes.
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.
I am.
Made you 'shiver about', did it?
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.
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.
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.
So...did you get the job?
“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.
“... 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!
You have just been offered a job by GibberishBot.
thanks I may actually make use of some of them
Thanks! I needed the § symbol the other day and had to google it Alt+21
Speaking like that in a bar-“ I’ll have a whithkey thtone thour, pleathe”
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.
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