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   Walker to Custos Custodum   
   Re: 3 Old English words   
   03 Jan 07 07:57:30   
   
   XPost: soc.culture.welsh   
   From: walker@btinternet.com   
      
   "Custos Custodum"  wrote in message   
   news:lv45p2hoqg0psck2qhddlb48fkuq9hf1ke@4ax.com...   
   > 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.   
   >   
   Outdated textbooks written by racists white supremicists who believe that   
   Germans are the master race. Obviously you are a Hitlerite racist   
   National-Socialist, and no doubt a holocaust denier as well. Be off yourself   
   and take your medication!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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