Re: Dirk's Signature (WAS:Lighting Some Flames: Towards conlang artistry)

At 4:41 PM -0500 03/12/02, Elliott Lash wrote:
>  Dirk Elzinga <Dirk_Elzinga@...> writes:
><snip>
>I agree with what you said here and in the previous mail...now on to
>my question. :)
Well, thank you.

>  > Dirk
>>  --
>>  Dirk Elzinga                  Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu
>>
>>  Man deth swa he byth thonne he mot swa he wile.
>>  'A man does as he is when he can do what he wants.'
>>
>>  - Old English Proverb
>
>Old English? or....extremely early Middle English? ...Maybe it's
>just the lack of thorns that get me thrown off :)
It is Old English. I haven't found a way to display <thorn> on my
Macintosh (perhaps I'm just too dense, but I honestly don't see how
to do it!), so I replaced <thorn>s with <th>s. I also used to mark
the long vowels with an acute accent, but that gets garbled, too.

Orthographical issues aside, I like the sentiment expressed.

>Elliott
Dirk
--
Dirk Elzinga                  Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu

Man deth swa he byth thonne he mot swa he wile.
'A man does as he is when he can do what he wants.'

- Old English Proverb