Re: CHAT: a mixylinguistic staggerpoem
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 25, 2002, 17:50 |
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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.
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