The Future?????

[Zee Zee Top]

Fenrys Kijin

Alabang

For the record, slang has already invaded our dictionary. Webster's has words like, "bootylicious".

You've got to be kidding me.

I heard it from an English teacher... My dictionary's old, so I don't have that word...

Edited: Dictionary.com has it, though... Here's the entry:

Main Entry: bootylicious
Part of Speech: adj
Definition: sexually attractive, esp. in the buttocks
Etymology: booty + delicious
Usage: slang  

[Yokushi]

Judas lscariot

Yokushi

Judas lscariot

Actually, Canterbury Tales looks horribly written. It doesn't look "fancy" at all.

Actually, I am not refering to Canterbury Tales specifically. Chaucer wrote many things in his time. Basically, I was naming one author of many to make a point. And it is actually only in your opinion that it doesn't look fancy. I respect it, but it's only what you think.

KayJuran

I agree with everything this guy says here.

Thanks. xd I really believe in my opinion of it, and I'm glad to know you think the same.

Quote:

Whan that Arcite to Thebes comen was,
Ful ofte a day he swelte and seyde `Allas,'
For seen his lady shal he nevere mo;
And shortly to concluden al his wo,
So muche sorwe hadde nevere creature,
That is, or shal whil that the world may dure.

Quote:

With this he took his leve, and hom he wente;
And lord, so he was glad and wel bygon!

Very fancy. It looks to me like somebody who really needs to learn to spell was trying to play with his sentence structure a bit.

Are you kidding me, man? This was normal English for them when he wrote it. Like I said, I respect your opinion, but how can you know that when it was read in those times it didn't sound beautiful? Just remember what times we are referring to here. And think of it this way, in the future other people might be reading things we wrote and they'll be thinking the exact same way you are.  

[Zee Zee Top]

Um... I understand the whole language evolving thing, but... How does this particular post apply to this thread?

Unless the evolution of language was the whole point of the post, I'm confused.  

[The Man who was Thursday]

Yokushi

Judas lscariot

Yokushi

Judas lscariot

Actually, Canterbury Tales looks horribly written. It doesn't look "fancy" at all.

Actually, I am not refering to Canterbury Tales specifically. Chaucer wrote many things in his time. Basically, I was naming one author of many to make a point. And it is actually only in your opinion that it doesn't look fancy. I respect it, but it's only what you think.

KayJuran

I agree with everything this guy says here.

Thanks. xd I really believe in my opinion of it, and I'm glad to know you think the same.

Quote:

Whan that Arcite to Thebes comen was,
Ful ofte a day he swelte and seyde `Allas,'
For seen his lady shal he nevere mo;
And shortly to concluden al his wo,
So muche sorwe hadde nevere creature,
That is, or shal whil that the world may dure.

Quote:

With this he took his leve, and hom he wente;
And lord, so he was glad and wel bygon!

Very fancy. It looks to me like somebody who really needs to learn to spell was trying to play with his sentence structure a bit.

Are you kidding me, man? This was normal English for them when he wrote it. Like I said, I respect your opinion, but how can you know that when it was read in those times it didn't sound beautiful? Just remember what times we are referring to here. And think of it this way, in the future other people might be reading things we wrote and they'll be thinking the exact same way you are.

You're just proving my point for me, you realize. I was arguing with this point:

Yokushi

Chaucer as well wrote in a way that people from his time would understand. We read the original versions of everything they wrote and it seems weird and classical and fancy in our eyes; but it was normal for them.

Which you just negated, yourself.  

[Zee Zee Top]

You're posting in the wrong thread...