I am still fighting the urge to rename my livejournal friendspage "Ill-Natured and Vexatious Persons."

Posted April 19, 2007 4:48 PM by Mris

Don’t nobody speak Middle English no more?

Quoi?

Posted April 19, 2007 5:09 PM by Serge

Quhat?

Posted April 19, 2007 5:48 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Hwaet!

Posted April 19, 2007 5:51 PM by Aconite

Wait. Does this mean I missed my chance to get a Middle English edition of the certificate? Dang.

Posted April 19, 2007 5:56 PM by Andrew Willett

Don’t nobody speak Middle English no more?

Non. Ea infinite nova lingua est.

Posted April 19, 2007 6:06 PM by abi

Whuh?

(Damn, that doesn't really work, does it? I'm going for what : hwaet :: huh : X, somebody help me out here, this has to be workable.)

Whuwh? Hwuhw?

Posted April 19, 2007 6:12 PM by Michael Roberts

If you'd grant permission, I could make an online form allowing folks to type in their name and receive a personalized image. I dig the certificates (it's roughly the rules I've run forums under for years) and would be happy to help.

Posted April 19, 2007 7:07 PM by Peter Harkins

Why do I suspect it would be A) easy to find volunteers to translate this into Klingon, and B) really vicious sounding if read aloud in Klingon?

Posted April 19, 2007 7:45 PM by Bruce E. Durocher II

(begin_snark) Still says "Disemvowei" though.(end_snark)

Where the heck else can I proofread on line and get away with it?

Posted April 19, 2007 7:53 PM by Pete Newell

Nae, nooble ladie, nane doe in these times of broil indite the Middele Englishe tongue. The speche of Chavcer, and of Langland eke, is alle forgot bi sondrie chvrlishe folk. Yet bi mi leavté, doe ich svvere, thatte everichoon who doth thisse reade shalle proclaim thyn noblesse vnto the skies.

Posted April 19, 2007 7:58 PM by Fragano Ledgister

Ich am of ireland, and middle englishe ne can ich nat speken none.

Posted April 19, 2007 9:42 PM by Lisa Spangenberg

nennil voir, dame
ie parle la langue d'oïl e la lenga d'oc qui sunt moult beles e bones
nai point besoin d'altres

~explycyt la parole de anne~
~deo gratias~

Posted April 19, 2007 10:18 PM by TexAnne

Pete @ 10:

Actually, if you look at the "L" in "DELETE," you will see that DISEMVOWEL is actually spelled correctly (it's just that the "L" has a really tiny foot.)

Posted April 20, 2007 12:03 AM by Rachel Heslin

TexAnne@13: I actually understood that. I am quietly boggling.

Posted April 20, 2007 5:47 AM by David Goldfarb

Hwaet!

Translated variously as "Listen!" "Attend!" or "So", but in one version of "Beowulf" (or so I am told) as "What-ho!"

Posted April 20, 2007 5:51 AM by ajay

TexAnne @ 13... I understood that too, for obvious reasons. I couldn't speak it though.

Posted April 20, 2007 6:11 AM by Serge

Rachel @ 14

I looked at that too, a whole bunch of times*. It doesn't match the other instances of upper-case** L in the document. It does match the upper-case I.

Why am I arguing about this at this ungodly hour of the morning? I seem to have gotten my OCD in my proofreading again. Or vice versa; I get confused easily.

* being a coward, and all.

** note my bleary-eyed avoidance of the whole {capital, capitol) snakepit.

Posted April 20, 2007 7:04 AM by Pete Newell

Hwaet!

Oook!

Posted April 20, 2007 7:35 AM by Jon Meltzer

Ajay. I'm sure I've seen a version of Beowulf that translated Hweat as "What".

I'm pretty sure it started "What we have heard", and it may be a Penguin Classics edition I'm thinking of. But whether it's the translation they currently publish, I'm not sure.

Posted April 20, 2007 7:38 AM by Dave Bell

ajay @ 16: Re: Hwaet

My Old English professor--whose name is well known in the field--told me these days it would probably translate best as, "Yo! Listen up!"

But, like many words, it has more than one meaning, and can be punned with.

Posted April 20, 2007 8:44 AM by Aconite

I think it's beautiful.

Has anyone yet suggested that you title your (hypothetical?) book Flaming Sword of Moderation?

Posted April 20, 2007 11:46 AM by Michael Bloom

Michael #22: Written under Teresa's Unitarian Jihan pen-name, of course. (Do we know or recall what her name in that siblinghood is?)

Posted April 20, 2007 3:33 PM by Nenya

Michael Bloom @ 22... How about The Mod(erator) Squad?

Posted April 20, 2007 3:40 PM by Serge

Serge #17: Just pronounce 'oi' as 'ooeh' rather than 'ooaa'....

Posted April 21, 2007 12:11 PM by Fragano Ledgister

Well now hwaet a minnit...
Nu who wer thatte?
Thou knowst thou makes me wist shoute

Putte my hed back and shoute
Thruw my hende back and shoute
Kicke my heele uppe and shoute...

Posted April 23, 2007 3:21 PM by thanbo

Middle English..It's all text talk.

Posted January 7, 2009 1:53 PM by Gabrielle