forgetting your roots

[InDaPocket]

You don't speak English, muthafucka.

Hroðgar maþelode, helm Scyldinga:
"Ic hine cuðe cnihtwesende.
Wæs his ealdfæder Ecgþeo haten,
ðæm to ham forgeaf Hreþel Geata
angan dohtor; is his eafora nu
heard her cumen, sohte holdne wine.
ðonne sægdon þæt sæliþende,
þa ðe gifsceattas Geata fyredon
þyder to þance, þæt he XXXtiges
manna mægencræft on his mundgripe
heaþorof hæbbe. Hine halig god
for arstafum us onsende,
to Westdenum, þæs ic wen hæbbe,
wið Grendles gryre. Ic þæm godan sceal
for his modþræce madmas beodan.
Beo ðu on ofeste, hat in gan
seon sibbegedriht samod ætgædere;
gesaga him eac wordum þæt hie sint wilcuman
Deniga leodum."
word inne abead:
"Eow het secgan sigedrihten min,
aldor Eastdena, þæt he eower æþelu can,
ond ge him syndon ofer sæwylmas
heardhicgende hider wilcuman.
Nu ge moton gangan in eowrum guðgewædum
under heregriman Hroðgar geseon;
lætað hildebord her onbidan,
wudu, wælsceaftas, worda geþinges."
Aras þa se rica, ymb hine rinc manig,
þryðlic þegna heap; sume þær bidon,
heaðoreaf heoldon, swa him se hearda bebead.

Edit: just wondering, since you are telling others what they do and do not speak properly, what Africaneers speak proper Swahili? I mean there are over 50 different dialects of this language. Surely if trunk/boot seems to chaff you, have 50 different words talking about the same thing in 50 different places must drive you ape mad?

[Snee]

he was only pointing out that it wasn't officially english, he attached no value to his or or anyone's use of colloquialisms beyond that, he was just stating facts.

And what does your quoting of old english have to do with anything?

[manker]

Edit: just wondering, since you are telling others what they do and do not speak properly, what Africaneers speak proper Swahili? I mean there are over 50 different dialects of this language. Surely if trunk/boot seems to chaff you, have 50 different words talking about the same thing in 50 different places must drive you ape mad?

I'm not telling anyone what they're speaking properly, only which language they're speaking. Is that okay.

Why would people speaking Swahili chaff - or maybe you meant chafe - me. I would say that there are far more than 50 regional variations of English and that doesn't bother me one bit. There are 57 varieties of Heinz and I'm okay with that too.

Do you have a point or did you just take issue with me teasing Busyman in that excerpt of mine you posted.

[manker]

Yes it is. In your statement it would come under the Trough definition of Bosh.

Websters Third International Dictionary.Volume 1.

I call a cuddle a cwtch, and that aint in the dictionary.

Btw, bosh isn't under that definition on dictionary.com.

[InDaPocket]

I'm not telling anyone what they're speaking properly, only which language they're speaking. Is that okay.

Why would people speaking Swahili chaff - or maybe you meant chafe - me. I would say that there are far more than 50 regional variations of English and that doesn't bother me one bit. There are 57 varieties of Heinz and I'm okay with that too.

Do you have a point or did you just take issue with me teasing Busyman in that excerpt of mine you posted.

Actually, chaff is correct.

[manker]

Actually, chaff is correct.

Really.

Chaff.

Chafe.

You meant that a linguistic nuance makes fun of me in a good natured way

[hobbes]

Really.

Chaff.

Chafe.

You meant that a linguistic nuance makes fun of me in a good natured way

Do you speak Welsh when British people are around. I read a novel based in Wales and although it was a horror novel, the obviously Welsh author had definite issues with the British and their penchant for buying up prime real-estate for retirement homes (Homes to retire to, not that place for old people).

Sort of a snub was to exclude British patrons at a bar by speaking only in Welsh.

[manker]

Do you speak Welsh when British people are around. I read a novel based in Wales and although it was a horror novel, the obviously Welsh author had definite issues with the British and their penchant for buying up prime real-estate for retirement homes (Homes to retire to, not that place for old people).

Sort of a snub was to exclude British patrons at a bar by speaking only in Welsh.

I can't speak Welsh but what you say is right, some Welsh people, not I, particularly, do take issue at that.

In West Wales, where the prime real-estate is, it is not uncommon for shop workers to start talking Welsh on hearing an English twang. That may be as much to do with general tribalism and an aversion to English folk as real-estate issues but there are extreme groups that burn down English owned holiday homes. It seems to have abated but a few years ago it was a recurring theme on the news.

[vidcc]

Do you speak Welsh when British people are around. I read a novel based in Wales and although it was a horror novel, the obviously Welsh author had definite issues with the British and their penchant for buying up prime real-estate for retirement homes (Homes to retire to, not that place for old people).

Sort of a snub was to exclude British patrons at a bar by speaking only in Welsh.

Welsh people are british....you are talking about English people buying up land in wales thus pricing the locals out of the market.

Edit: manker already sort of said that

[manker]

Welsh people are british....you are talking about English people buying up land in wales thus pricing the locals out of the market

Well, I did start us down Pedant Street, I suppose.