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   On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:57:30 -0000, "Walker"    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"Custos Custodum"  wrote in message   
   >news:vj1eo2drds9a21pn724p7noe5r1e0au71u@4ax.com...   
   >> On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:21:56 -0000, "Walker"    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>>"Rocky3"  wrote in message   
   >>>news:12l0gtticm3xm$.f3zt1vx6veuw$.dlg@40tude.net...   
   >>>> Hello!   
   >>>> I wish to translate from English to Old English (Anglo-Saxon) these   
   >>>> words:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> "Oh my wings!"   
   >>>>   
   >>>> How can I do it? Did Anglo-Saxons use "Oh"?   
   >>>> "Wings" seems to be in the vocative: which is the Anglo-Saxon case?   
   >>>> I found "min" for "my" and "fíðru" ("fithru" if you can read the special   
   >>>> type) for "wings": are the right words in the right cases?   
   >>>> Thank you in advance.   
   >>>> Bye!   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Rocky3   
   >>>>   
   >>>Don't you mean Alt Platdeutch/Old Low German?   
   >>   
   >> No, he doesn't.   
   >>   
   >>>Old English, what on earth is that?   
   >>   
   >> The direct ancestor of the language we are using just now.   
   >   
   >No it isn't. The language we speak now bears no relationship to any kind of   
   >German, High or Low. English is entirely different from Low German,   
   >including Anglo-Saxon.   
      
   It might seem that way to the uneducated.   
      
   > Where do you get your wierd ideas from?   
   >   
   Any textbook ever written on the subject. Now be off and take your   
   medication, Dave/Flink/Boggie/Whatever.   
      
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