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cahult:
Anyone here with a love for old english or anglosaxon as one can also call it? I

cahult:
Here

Laukev7:
I do like English from Britain. Not only Olde English, modern English as well. I just find it classy. Depends on the dialects, of course.

 
quote: Bokstaef
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We can find this word in German 'Buchstabe', which also means 'letter'.

And I've read that Olde English was very similar to Old Norse. It even had symbols like

jasonlane:
I did a bit of Chaucer at school, I should have paid more attention really. Although a lot of words sound very similar to modern English, for obvious reasons. I noticed that if I really listened to Swedish (when I was there), the same was true. It's amazing to see the similarities in many European languages, when you concentrate that is    :D  

Old English must be closer, or perhaps easier for a modern Swedish speaker to understand than a modern English speaker to understand?

No I didn't get it. What's the prize? If it's good I might learn Od English just for the prize

[ September 22, 2003: Message edited by: Zardoz ]  :D

[ September 22, 2003: Message edited by: Zardoz ]

cahult:
English, frisian and dutch-flemish are one distinct family on the germanic family tree. That branch is very close to the north germanic branch, maybe they have the same origin. German is actually a cuckoo in the bird nest with its odd version of germanic words.

Thw word germanic is an odd word with an even more odd origin. The first time it is named is when a roman author mentioned a people to the north of the roman empire. The word seems to be celtic in origin, meaning sprout or seed, oddly enough the words goth and swedish word g

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