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hsrob on 26 March 2008

Well then it could be described as old fashioned English rather than Old English, i was merely going with the term as used by the OP.



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dallas on 26 March 2008

modern english...weren't they the people that had that "meld with you " song?



Words Of Wisdom on 26 March 2008
makingmusic476 said:
hsrob said:
Personally i find it annoying when playing games and watching movies that everyone human or otherwise speaks with an American accent. So bring on the variety as long as it suits the story, period or setting of the game.

BTW The characters aren't speaking "Old English", everything from Shakespeare on is considered "Modern English". Old English refers to Anglo-Saxon English prior to Norman influence, which was c450-c1150. Old English would be almost completely incomprehensible.

 Other it was divided into Old, Middle, and New English?

 

 By new do you mean Modern?



makingmusic476 on 26 March 2008
Words Of Wisdom said:
makingmusic476 said:
hsrob said:
Personally i find it annoying when playing games and watching movies that everyone human or otherwise speaks with an American accent. So bring on the variety as long as it suits the story, period or setting of the game.

BTW The characters aren't speaking "Old English", everything from Shakespeare on is considered "Modern English". Old English refers to Anglo-Saxon English prior to Norman influence, which was c450-c1150. Old English would be almost completely incomprehensible.

Other it was divided into Old, Middle, and New English?

By new do you mean Modern?


 Well, yeah.  I just remember it being referred to as new.



hsrob on 26 March 2008

Apparently both Modern and New English are acceptable terms, New English being an Americanism according to dictionary.com. So everybody's right:)



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Words Of Wisdom on 26 March 2008
hsrob said:
Apparently both Modern and New English are acceptable terms, New English being an Americanism according to dictionary.com. So everybody's right:)

But... but... I'm American and I call it Modern English...



hsrob on 26 March 2008

Just because it's an "Americanism" doesn't mean all Americans have to use it.......i have a feeling we got off topic somewhere along the way and i have a feeling it was my fault.



Flow on 26 March 2008

Yall dat shizzle is wack yall, dis da real shizzle, da real modern english we use to keep it real on da streets youknowhatimsayin?

Word up.




Flow -"The important is to pwn other ppl"

epsilon72 on 26 March 2008
Words Of Wisdom said:
Dodece said:


Get thee hence. Thine words doth offend us. True heresy are these things of which thou should speakest not. Prithee thou cometh to understand the oft unused tongue of olde and I doth beseecheth thee to strive to gain a greater understanding of that which ye lack.

Nice job, except for one error (no -eth is needed there)

 



NintendoMan on 26 March 2008

I hate Shakespeare



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