Re: LOTR (in RP?) on the BBC
| From: | And Rosta <a-rosta@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 6, 2002, 14:46 |
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John Cowan
> Sent: 14 January 2002 12:06
> The use of OE for Rohirric is actually a bit odd, since OE > ModE,
> but Rohirric not > Westron. German might have been nearer to
> the mark (:-)): a related, not mutually intelligible, generally
> more conservative language.
Frisian, perhaps?
What would have been even better would be to take Mercian dialect
as a starting point and then, rather as BP is doing, project it
1000 years into the future.
--And.