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).

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[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

I think we still use "bireve" as "bereave." Or at least, I do. heh.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, although the meaning has changed slightly over the years (but then, the word has too ;0)

Looking at some of those it's not hard to see the English - Middle English - Friesian - Dutch connections.

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess it's become stronger. We also have a tendency to use it in the passive. But I think if you used it in the Middle English sense, people would understand. I'm pretty sure it's still acceptable anyway!

[arikatt.livejournal.com]

You've bireved me of the chance to post the same thing.

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

::snicker:: Precisely. ;-)

OOOO! COOKIES!

[arikatt.livejournal.com]

Want some? *dangles cookie in front of you on a string while finger hovers over Button of Doom*

[conuly]

Hey, guys. Just don't break LiveJournal. Again.

[arikatt.livejournal.com]

Oh no, not THAT button. *shudders with the memory* I wouldn't touch that button if the alternative was to sit on a pile of coals for three hours. Bring on the toasty buns.

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

Duh! Can't get any darker than the Dark Side I'm on! ::snerk:: ::glomps cookies!::

[arikatt.livejournal.com]

Bweheheee...we have a new recruit.

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

Whee!

I'm stalking you (read: I read your info :-P) and see that you claim you could live on sushi. Personally, *I* think it *must* be healthy! ;-)

[arikatt.livejournal.com]

Sushi is Eastern ambrosia.

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

Precisely. So it will make us immortal! ::nods::

[arikatt.livejournal.com]

*looks up from cutting out own spleen with a plastic fork* What, you mean we're not already?

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

Well, if you ate the sushi, you are!

[arikatt.livejournal.com]

Oops. *spleen jumps out and strangles her to death*

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

Can spleen do that?

And you have great icons, hah!

[arikatt.livejournal.com]

*rises* MY spleen can! *spleen rears up and chokes her again* GAK! *deaded*

And yes. My icons pwn j00.

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

Ok, I lost you at pwn j00. ;-)

And that's quite a spe-shul spleen you have!

[arikatt.livejournal.com]

Not a 1337 person, eh? Oh well, there are other messed up dialects to use.

*beats spleen with a whuppin' stick*

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

LOL! I know basic 1337 to make fun of it. In fact, I've confused a couple friends who don't know it at all lately, but that one lost me. ;-)

::cheers you on!::

[arikatt.livejournal.com]

Go look it up on Urbandictionary.com! In short, "I pwn j00" means "I own you", or "I rock/you suck". I love that site though. It has ALL the stupid phrases and words 13 year old retards are using these days online, and I check it quite frequently.

*eats spleen* There! Go back to where you belong, you yeller-bellied..uh...SPLEEN! YEAH!

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

::cringe:: I think I'd die. It hurts enough to say "kthnxbai!"

Wow, go you!

[arikatt.livejournal.com]

Hah, 1337 is somewhat of a paradox for me. It's such an exaggeration of shorthand and horrible grammar that grammatical rules don't even apply to it anymore. For someone like myself that reads the NYT with a red pen in hand, it's most definitely cringe-worthy. I correct spoken grammar as well, if I'm around the right crowd. If it's rude to say anything, I still do it in my head...and that's even more painful. I play fast and loose with posting though, as long as I still sound like an intelligent dumbass instead of a didn't-pass-2nd-grade dumbass.

[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.