Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Language is fluid, like a river — it flows, changes direction, and sometimes stinks.


Have you read Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (c.1385)? Here's a quote:
"And for ther is so gret diversite 
In Englissh and in writing of oure tonge, 
So prey I God that non miswrite thee, 
Ne thee mysmetre for defaute of tonge;"
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5 comments:

  1. BettyjaneJune 23, 2011 at 2:56 PM

    I don't think this "stinks". It's glorious! Have you ever read Chaucer?

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  2. The Grammar AnarchistJune 23, 2011 at 2:57 PM

    Of course I've read Chaucer. V-E-R-Y SLOWLY! Try writing a blog with words like that! Oh wait -- there are a ton of them!

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  3. BettyjaneJune 25, 2011 at 12:38 PM

    Funny! I can read Chaucer, but I can't read twitters or tweets or whatever. M I rite?

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  4. The Grammar AnarchistJune 25, 2011 at 12:39 PM

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  5. The Grammar AnarchistJune 25, 2011 at 12:59 PM

    Rite!

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