geneahhe interesting! it hwettan min hungor fore dat ongytenes. (of course, please correct that!)
Posted by jean-pierre at March 24, 2004 10:44 PMNice one yeah. But why are they calling the Taliban scum?
Posted by commonbeauty at March 25, 2004 12:34 AM:-) "isc" = "ish" and "-um" is the dative plural ending. So "with Talibaniscum" means "against (more than one) Taliban-ish (person.)"
Posted by dale at March 25, 2004 02:27 PMUh, I'm pretty sure commonbeauty was joking, in his poker-faced way. But it's just as well you explained it for those keeping score at home.
Posted by language hat at March 25, 2004 02:54 PMYeah, I reckoned he pro'bly was. But you never know. Even Homer nods. He can't know everything about art and music *and* dead languages, can he?
Posted by dale at March 25, 2004 04:30 PMHomer is in my case perpetually nodding frantically.
I know no dead languages.
But yes, I was joking, the Taliban are definitely not scum. They're wankers, and there IS a difference.
Old English: is beautiful, is spooky, is what I would have studied if I could have found the funds to do it in England. Funds. England. Ha ha.
As it is, I'm stuck with Flemish painting which is sooo much more practical.
Posted by commonbeauty at March 25, 2004 05:40 PMAlways the eye for the main chance, that's you :-)
Posted by dale at March 26, 2004 09:29 AMJoshua Burton passed along this from Kevin Wald (http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~wald/lit/):
Thes sind tha staepstaeru steorrascipes
Enterprise. His aerende fif geara*:
Wendan ofer worlda, wundorlica ond niwa;
Uncuthu cwicnesse ond cynnu secan;
Faestlice faran hwaer beforan man ne eode.
*fif geara] MS B has standend
Posted by Anton Sherwood at March 30, 2004 01:59 AM