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Next Entry cross-pollination This is a repost of someone on my FL that at least half of my readership does not know, and therefore would have missed, but I knew you'd like it .
brannen): Wha be tha blake prevy lawe That bene wantoun too alle tha feres? Wha be tha carl tha riske is hals wolt Fro is allye leve? Wha be tha carl wha wolden flee Whan peril bene all aboughte? He be a man konne unnethes Namo save is mayde konnes im.
Link) I have printed out a copy and placed it on one of the class bulletin boar ds. I did so without ceremony or attention (figuring I don't need to cal l attention to "damne"), but I look forward with glee to the day the kid s realize it's there.
Link) Well, it looks right, but I'd need to sit down and look at it to tell if it makes sense from a dialect standpoint. I'm not nearly an expert in Mi ddle English, but there are five dialect groups that each have things di fferent. That said, there is mixing in most works, so if nothing else it could probably be an example of mixing if nothing else. When I'm not sitting here with my developer hat on, I'll check it out. I did change the th combinations back to thorns and the gh combinations ba ck to yogh's when I reposted it. But spelling isn't normalized, so that' s not necessarily wrong either.
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