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| Re: American -> English Spellings [message #256621 is a reply to message #256554] |
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PlastoJoe
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Registered: October 2005
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Chaucer (usually The Canterbury Tales) is mandatory reading for most high schools in the US. The thing about him is that he wrote before there were any standardized spellings of words. That means he ended up like this:
This frere bosteth that he knoweth helle,
And God it woot, that it is litel wonder;
Freres and feendes been but lyte asonder.
For, pardee, ye han ofte tyme herd telle
How that a frere ravyshed was to helle
In spirit ones by a visioun;
which means:
This friar boasts that he knows hell,
And God knows that it is little wonder;
Friars and fiends are seldom far apart.
For, by God, you have ofttimes heard tell
How a ravished friar went to hell
In spirit, once by a vision;
And we have to read this and write papers on it.
You may be a fundamentalist atheist if...
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| tzarmind wrote on Sat, 06 January 2007 20:52 |
Not only did you immaturely edit what J_Ball said in your quote. But you fucking got in the irony truck and drove it straight off a cliff.
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