http://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C4%93afods%C4%ABde
With a bit of good will and knowledge of context I can read it. It's about as hard to understand as modern dutch for me. I like the way they refer to Anglo-Saxon (the language) as English in Anglo-Saxon.
I always felt that the poor Saxons got gypped on the naming rights. Not to mention the Jutes.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 09, 2010, 06:12:19 AM
I always felt that the poor Saxons got gypped on the naming rights. Not to mention the Jutes.
Yeah, whats particularly odd is that the Saxons came out as the dominant folks too- the Angles being primarily in the Viking ravaged north and east whilst the Saxons were sitting pretty in Wessex and from there eventually went on to form England.
But I suppose we should be thankful. If the Saxons had got naming rights I'd be living in Sexeland or somesuch.
And it'd be pretty confusing given the importance the Saxons in Germany have had over history.
What a silly thing to do.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 09, 2010, 06:12:19 AM
I always felt that the poor Saxons got gypped on the naming rights. Not to mention the Jutes.
Blame Bede.
J'accuse!
useless shit on the internet. What a shocker.
Still not as dumb as Wikipedia in Esperanto.
Quote from: derspiess on January 10, 2010, 08:47:06 PM
Still not as dumb as Wikipedia in Esperanto.
I've only ever met one person who claimed to speak Esperanto. Still beats the number of people I met speaking Anglo-Saxon.
Quote from: syk on January 10, 2010, 09:03:54 PM
Quote from: derspiess on January 10, 2010, 08:47:06 PM
Still not as dumb as Wikipedia in Esperanto.
I've only ever met one person who claimed to speak Esperanto. Still beats the number of people I met speaking Anglo-Saxon.
Hwaet!?
Quote from: Sheilbh on January 10, 2010, 09:06:54 PM
Quote from: syk on January 10, 2010, 09:03:54 PM
Quote from: derspiess on January 10, 2010, 08:47:06 PM
Still not as dumb as Wikipedia in Esperanto.
I've only ever met one person who claimed to speak Esperanto. Still beats the number of people I met speaking Anglo-Saxon.
Hwaet!?
:D
Quote from: syk on January 10, 2010, 09:03:54 PM
Quote from: derspiess on January 10, 2010, 08:47:06 PM
Still not as dumb as Wikipedia in Esperanto.
I've only ever met one person who claimed to speak Esperanto. Still beats the number of people I met speaking Anglo-Saxon.
But Esperanto is a flat-out stupid language to begin with. Which makes anything in Esperanto infinitely dumber than anything in Anglo-Saxon.
What about Interlingua?
Quote from: syk on January 10, 2010, 09:03:54 PM
Quote from: derspiess on January 10, 2010, 08:47:06 PM
Still not as dumb as Wikipedia in Esperanto.
I've only ever met one person who claimed to speak Esperanto. Still beats the number of people I met speaking Anglo-Saxon.
you'd start to wonder sometimes though if you heard our coastal old geezers talk in their dialect