@zakalwe@RickiTarr
Just reading through the YouTube comments and it's like you can't even make a ancient Nordic version of a 1970s rock song without a load of people going on about pronunciation these days
@RickiTarr I like to tell people that complain about someone saying ‘aksed’ instead of ‘asked’ if they still call a horse a ‘hros’ as it was originally in English.
@RickiTarr
Among reasons -which are legion- that I didn't do well at uni:
friend, grad student of eng lit, gave me a copy of "Fowler's Dictionary (of Modern English Usage)" to 'help' me along in my studies. (I was a ged holder, starting uni at 22)
Leofan men, gecnawað þæt soð is: ðeos worold is on ofste, and hit nealæcð þam ende, and þy hit is on worolde aa swa leng swa wyrse; and swa hit sceal nyde for folces synnan ær Antecristes tocyme yfelian swyþe, and huru hit wyrð þænne egeslic and grimlic wide on worolde. Understandað eac georne þæt deofol þas þeode nu fela geara dwelode to swyþe, and þæt lytle getreowþa wæran mid mannum, þeah hy wel spæcan, and unrihta to fela ricsode on lande. And næs a fela manna þe smeade ymbe þa bote swa georne swa man scolde, ac dæghwamlice man ihte yfel æfter oðrum and unriht rærde and unlaga manege ealles to wide gynd ealle þas þeode.
Translation
Dear people, know the truth. This world is swift and nearing its end. So the longer things go on in this world, the worse they get. So it must needs be, thanks to people's sinning, that things worsen fast before the Antichrist comes and it really gets nasty and horrible throughout the world. Realize this too: that the Devil has been leading this nation off-course for years now, and people have little loyalty left — smooth talkers though they were. Crime and wrong took charge of the land, and there were never many with the zeal needed to plan out a remedy. They just heaped evil on evil day in and day out, breaking laws and wronging their way through this country.
@WhiteCatTamer I believe it was more of a translation issue than understanding it, the newer translations are supposed to be closer to the Hebrew and Greek, although the thing with translations is you're always going to have some of the bias of the translator.
Side note: “God’s Secretaries” is a great book on the making of the KJB, if anyone’s interested in that.
Second side note: Bart Erham is a great author to look into for those laypeople interested in Biblical studies (didn’t write the above book but just in general).
@RickiTarr Old English isn't really English. It operates with noun morphology instead of verb. Much closer to German than Middle English. Both Middle and Modern English use Scandanavian grammar and syntax. All those pillaging Vikings, dontcha know.
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