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To: lee martell

“Notice how low the language standards have sunk “We F*cked Up”.

Well, perhaps they’re scholars of pre-Norman Conquest Britain!/s;)


6 posted on 09/27/2016 9:49:59 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Frank_2001
scholars of pre-Norman Conquest Britain!/s;)
It wasn’t “Britain” back then - England and Scotland weren’t united (are they now?) until much later than 1066.

But then, it’s moot - our language today would have been unintelligible to a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 – 1400). Let alone of King Harold . . .


10 posted on 09/28/2016 10:49:14 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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