And wrote:
> And they invented Ikea.
Bastards. Let all Britain rise up against this foul tyrrany!
> And they're proud of it! The hangar of horrors
> hulking in my borough of Brent is brazenly painted blue with a gigantic
> yellow cross on it.
>
> [ObConlang: Can that last sentence be relatively easily fashioned into
> anglosaxon verse...?]
I'm no scop, but I'll have a go:
Þæt ærn tergaþ yfele in minre burh
Man him bleawfag hiwed
Mid regngreate rode geolwe.
It was quite hard to render literally (read "impossible), so it translates
thus:
The great building looms evilly in my town (no OE word for Brent)
One painted it blue-colour
With very great yellow cross.
> > And the Danes are an outgoing people, totally free of prejudice.
>
> Not so far from the truth, I think.
British (i.e. non Ikea-purchasing British collaborators) too, methinks.
Dan
> --And.