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People do still write it, for fun: https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heafodtramet https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heafodtramet Here's a more fluent reading, if you
by pmiller2 6y ago
People do still write it, for fun: https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heafodtramet https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heafodtramet
Here's a more fluent reading, if you like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CpKlEiahtI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CpKlEiahtI
Enjoy it, don't enjoy it, hop in your time machine and go back to the 9th century to enjoy it; whatever floats your boat. Personally, I enjoy it, "pretentious" or not.
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoAnd can you claim to have Sprachgefühl for 900s English and be able to feel the difference between a poetic phrasing an an ordinary phrasing in that language?
- pmiller2 6y agoI don't know. Can you claim not to be "prætentious," while throwing around words like "Sprachgefühl", as if this isn't a forum for communicating with ordinary people in plain English? PS, 9th century is from 801-900 CE. Might want to set the dial correctly when you hop in that time machine to get some Sprachgefühl.
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoSprachgefühl is a completely normal English word, used all the time, not only that, much like Schadenfreude there is no alternative that captures the meaning. But that response was simply an attempt to dodge the issue raised.