... which, in Jameld, means "let's wake up" :) It's all gone a bit quiet, but I heard this yesterday and it made me laugh. A friend of mine used to be an army...
Has anyone ever tried to create a language that would have been used in England if the Germans had succesfully occupied England, leaving a very strong impact...
Not, but I'm going to talk about your subject :) Have you got any time this would've happened? Is it instead of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes? (Then they...
Doy!!! I forgot to say that this "invasion" was during WWII. If the Germans succesfully invaded England/Britain during WWII, and the German language was...
... My guess is exactly like English. The language would only be adopted by the Government. The population of England is just too big to be able to displace...
Yeah, I was just thinking about what "could" have happened to the language; I did not really care about all of the political/historical stuff. I was just using...
I have knowledge in some national languages that have quite lately got out from a fifty years pressure of an other language spoken by an occupying nation. I...
I think I heard about this language here. What type of language is this? Scandinavian/Germanic? Thanks much, Clark McCray ... With Yahoo! Mail you can get a...
No, I am pretty sure that it was something like "Alemansk," but I am not sure at all. I do remember that it was a Scandinavian conlang. Maybe "Slensk" was what...
I am currently working on a project to make the English language more "English." For example, "mutton" is a French word for the meat of a lamb. So, I used a...
Hello, ... Now this reminds me of Walter Scott's _Ivanhoe_. Remember that intercourse of Gurth and Wamba? :-) ... Why would you want that? _porc_ is perfect...
"Pork" is a word of French origin; "porc." Someone suggested to me "pigflesh" or "swinemeat." Well, this is just my project, and it goes as I see fit. I do not...
As they say in French, "pas de probléme" ;-) Clark McCray __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one...
Pavel Iosad wra:t -- ... AFAIU Clark doesn't want to interpolate the development of OE without French influence, but rather to perform certain puristic...
Yitzik, Can you speak/write/understand/etc Old English? Clark McCray "Isaac A. Penzev" <isaacp@...> wrote:Pavel Iosad wra:t -- ... AFAIU Clark doesn't want...
Clark Hapeman wra:t -- <<Can you speak/write/understand/etc Old English?>> At the Uni I wrote my diploma reserch paper (an equivalent to Western "major") in...
... sure it ... without French ... present ... meats. What I ... meaning 'meal', 'food'. ... gives 'flesh' ... flæsc -- ... lamb is the young animal and...
... sure it ... without French ... present ... meats. What I ... meaning 'meal', 'food'. ... gives 'flesh' ... flæsc -- ... lamb is the young animal and...
I know that this is a Germanic conlang group, but I have started to do the oppisite of New English; Nouvel Anglais. It is a project to make the English...
David Barrow wrát: <<lamb is the young animal and mutton is from sheep the adult animal would the anglo-saxons have made the distinction: scéap fláesc v...
... I had a plan to take Anglo-Norman and give it all the English sound and grammar changes from around the 1100s onwords (so it was e.g. Great Vowel...
I am under the same impression about Anglo-Norman and Norman French. One must remember that there were Anglo-Normans in Ireland as well. Ever read any Chaucer?...
... The General Prologue, actually, in the part where the 'nonne' is introduced: And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte...