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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/26/2013 7:28:36 AM

leonine

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It's a lot more Germanic than French. There was a certain amount of balls spoken about this in French classes at school.

My aunt studied Anglo-Saxon in college, and she and a friend went on holiday in Holland and found they could get by speaking Anglo-Saxon. The Dutch thought they had a weird back-country vocabulary, but they understood it.

This is why I get annoyed at arguments about "modern" dialogue in shows like "Robin Hood." If you used the language they'd really have spoken, it would sound like Dutch. It has to be a translation, so it's no more authentic translated into cod-archaic English than into modern English.

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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/26/2013 6:54:44 PM

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The technical term for the cod archaic idiom bad folk singers use is mummerset, I'm told?

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