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Re: Ungrammaticalization?

From:Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
Date:Monday, July 19, 1999, 22:24
John Cowan wrote:

> Tom Wier wrote: > > Here're the first few lines from Beowulf (Old English) for comparison: > > Hardly a fair comparison, that. OE verse is even more impenetrable > than OE prose.
But is it that much more impenetrable than ME poetry? I find both fairly easy, when you have the vocab handy. You just need the vocab for OE more, since the vocabularly underwent a massive shift changing into ME. So, it's all relative. =========================================== Tom Wier <artabanos@...> AIM: Deuterotom ICQ: 4315704 <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/eclectorium/> "Cogito ergo sum, sed credo ergo ero." "Things just ain't the way they used to was." - a man on the subway ===========================================