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If you want to know what (late) Middle English sounded like, listen to this recitation of Skelton's Speke Parott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCckcTHWqKw ht
by DonaldFisk 6y ago
If you want to know what (late) Middle English sounded like, listen to this recitation of Skelton's Speke Parott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCckcTHWqKw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCckcTHWqKw
The text, with modern orthography, is here:
http://www.skeltonproject.org/spekeparott/ http://www.skeltonproject.org/spekeparott/
- gorkish 6y agoWhen I was learning to read Middle English I found that learning to pronounce it out loud helped a tremendous amount; it made the whole process a lot easier for me, and it helped others understand it as well since I could impart some contextual meaning that made some of those 'close' words very clear. Being able to recite monologues from Canterbury Tales was also a good party trick that apparently piqued the interest of this girl who later decided to marry me. So there you go.
- KineticLensman 6y ago> recite monologues from Canterbury Tales was also a good party trick I'm guessing not the Knights Tale > apparently piqued the interest of this girl who later decided to marry me I waited until after the first date before trying this one (Millers Tale). Reader - she married me!
- gorkish 6y agoI recall at that particular time I just reeled off the prologue, but I was always partial to the Monk's tale. The reason is silly. One of the first times I heard any of it read out loud, it was an English prof with an extreme Southern drawl reading Monk's Tale. I got a real kick of it, and always gave the Monk a little hint of the Blue Ridge Mountains in his honor.
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- shitgoose 6y agoTo my untrained (Russian) ear it sounds like a mixture of Scandinavian, Italian, and Romanian. Fascinating!