Re: CHAT: a mixylinguistic staggerpoem

John Cowan <jcowan@...> writes:

> Elliott Lash wrote:
>
>
>  >> Oh my ... looks like Old French? What is this poem meant to be? :P
>  >
>  > We'll have to wait for whoever posted it to answer...but it looks
>  > like Early Modern or Middle French to me...or maybe just a
>  > conscious attempt to appear Medieval.
>
> No, Francois Villon is quite genuinely of his time (ca. 1450)
> and I have not concocted the "Ballade de bonne doctrine",
> nor any of the translations.  Everything up to about 1600 is
> considered Middle French, so I guess that is the right label.
>
hehe, concocted! :) I didn't mean to imply that you had concocted it, just Villon's
spelling tend to look (at least to me) like someone who's consciously trying to
make French look older. :)

Elliott