I'm not *buying* the Canterbury Tales for Core 6.

[conuly]

How insane. If it's in the public domain, I can get it online for free instead of having to pay $15 for it. Especially when we aren't even reading the entire thing.

Anyway, I'm scrolling through a quick glossary of Middle English words Chaucer used and find this:

kankedort noun bad situation
kaynard noun dotard, a person who is feeble-minded

Aren't those just two of the coolest words ever? I have to start using them, along with jangles (gossip), clyket (key), bireve (remove, deprive, take away), bileve (remain, stay), taas (heap), swyve (copulate with), and nyfles (silly stories).

Comments

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

LOL! I know! Sometimes, when my profs screw up their grammar, voices in my head scream for me to correct them. ::snerk::

Actually, once my Latin prof was talking about word agreement, and he accidentally said "is" for a plural noun. I said "are" back at him, just because it was too good to pass up, and he knows me... very well. haha.

[arikatt.livejournal.com]

*enjoying spamming the page* I've corrected profs/teachers before as wel. You gotta be careful about it though, or they may eat you.

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

Haha, yeah, I know. I just did it to this prof because I knew he would take it "well." He just looked at me and said, "See, ten years ago, you wouldn't have dared to say that!" (He had also been talking about respect in the system going down, haha)

[arikatt.livejournal.com]

You woulda gotten bitchslapped, yo!

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

::snicker:: Ah, but ten years ago, I wouldn't have had him for a prof! :-D