Why we disagree with 486' Old English

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 5:10 pm

Actually, we should ban him FOR speaking.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 5:13 pm

Good lord, does anyone here ever read my posts? *sigh*

486/JTA: FWIW, I was totally joking about making it a "bannible offence" (I get about 2 PMs a day from Wally asking me to ban TD so consider it an inside joke)

It was meant in *irony* for Buddah's sake, no one is going to be banned. Sheesh...

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 7:05 pm

Kazer0 wrote:Actually, we should ban him FOR speaking.

I know, I was talking about wally.

Thunderdog · Post by **Thunderdog** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 7:52 pm

I can live with 286 speaking like one who has an IQ of 30, but it does get on my nerves a bit.

Check-Mate · Post by **Check-Mate** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 9:02 pm

Kazer0 wrote:
Kazer0 wrote:Actually, we should ban him FOR speaking.
I know, I was talking about wally.

Heeey....didn't I already say something about this?

486 player · Post by **486 player** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 11:13 am

*Boppin' Phew!* Don't post any jokes like that! I don't understand 'em.(Nor does many other.) Yeah, I some grammardo some grammar or write errors, but that's 'cause I graduated E-.

his own way expecting everyone else to take the time to translate it into something that makes sense.

It's not a purpose. I just like writtin' like that. And English ain't my mother tong. (Word cathed from English book.) My language has its own grammer and that why tehere are so many errors.

denrix · Post by **denrix** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 11:21 am

What planet are you from?

Thunderdog · Post by **Thunderdog** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 7:58 pm

486 player wrote: It's not a purpose. I just like writtin' like that. And English ain't my mother tong. (Word cathed from English book.) My language has its own grammer and that why tehere are so many errors.

That's still no reason to speak as if your brain still operates at the speed of a 286.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 8:44 pm

486 player wrote:And English ain't my mother tong.

Dnirex does have a point-he's a native albanian (?) speaker but he seems to speak English with reasonible fluency. What *is* your native language?

denrix · Post by **denrix** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 9:34 pm

Dogbreath wrote:
486 player wrote:And English ain't my mother tong.
Dnirex does have a point-he's a native albanian (?) speaker...

Yep.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 9:52 pm

Heh. My dad studied classical Greek (and all the languages descended from it (including Albanian)) for 12 years in college and taught it for 3 years. Unfortunately I haven't learnt any more than a year of classic Greek-but I may be able to understand some of what you'd say.

(Of course-you're at an advantage here. You speak Albanian which is a variant of Ancient Greek, which influenced Latin which was infused along with Keltic (yes, that is the proper spelling, even for Americans), Anglo, Saxon, and Jutish (s/p?) to form English... so technically, we both actually speak two dialects of the same language.

Whereas 486 may be a native mandarin Chinese speaker and is totally alienated from any European ideas of grammar or sentence structure)

denrix · Post by **denrix** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 10:17 pm

get your facts straight here, Detective. Albanian is not a succesor of Greek.
http://www.avesta.org/ietree.html , http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/european ... tree.shtml . it is a language all on its own.

But it is true, though, that English comes from our language. "fuck" has got the same meaning here. "fuck"="go take your panties off, then bend over, bitch".

SHOETAQUILLA · Post by **SHOETAQUILLA** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 10:20 pm

i thought fuck was an acronym...which meant:

Foreplay

Under the

Consent of the

King

Post by **Dogbreath** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 4:11 pm

Forinication
Under
Carnal
Knowledge

Though it wasn't considered any more of a curse word than "sexual intercourse" in Brittian until the Norman invasion...

And Dnirex: I could've sworn my history teacher back in 7th grade said Albanian was derived from Greek. The site you provided seems to indicate that A. Greek was derived from Albanian or B. that both languages came from the (now extinct) Indo-European base language and Albanian in an entirely unique branch of it. (Still, however, it *is* the same language as English-granted about 6000 years seperated rather than 1500)

denrix · Post by **denrix** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 7:55 pm

heh. Indo-European aint a language, duffy. It is a regional thing, like saying Latin languages, or something.

and yep, Albanian aint derived from Greek, and Greek aint derived from Albanian. They are two different languages, born at approximately the same time.

Oh, and by the way, can you bomb your teachers house from me? thanks in advance.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 8:10 pm

I said "the base Indo-European language"-I never said it was a language. The base Indo-European language is a theory that there was one base language spoken in Indo-Europe (before advent of writing) and most of our modern languages and language groups grew out of that. One of the sites you posted from says that Albanian is its own group evolved from that language and that root is shared by no other modern language. In other words, Albanian might have influenced Greek, but Greek never influenced Albanian making it as unique as Teutonic or Scandinavian or Romance or Celtic (the major language groups European languages grew out of, also see Persian and Ural-Altaic) That doesn't mean Albanians learnt to speak independent of any other men (that'd make it as different as Chinese is from French) but that it shares no relation to any other *Modern* languages or language groups.

Da_Goat · Post by **Da_Goat** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 12:16 am

Dogbreath wrote:Forinication
Under
Carnal
Knowledge

Untrue!

SHOETAQUILLA · Post by **SHOETAQUILLA** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 4:15 am

I was the closest to the write answer...

486 player · Post by **486 player** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 9:47 am

There's a link somewhere here...

Interon · Post by **Interon** » Fri Jan 16, 2004 8:10 pm

Hi 486 player,

I'll help you with mid 2nd millenium English.

For example I will help you with this sentence:

I'm not a spammer but, I've written many times that I HAST born in '80! It's Dog's readed-below-lines-misunderstand. I started to use 'thou's in grade 1 o' high school. If English had a word to speak to single person, I'd use it.

This sentence should be:

I spammeth not, but I hath written many times that my mother gaveth birth to me in the year of 1980! It is Dogbreath who hath not understanding. From the time of grade one, I useth the word 'thou'. If English hath a word that thou mayest speak to a single person, I shall use it.