Modern English has abandoned so many cool things in Old English
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Modern English has abandoned so many cool things in Old English and Middle English, like the letter þ and the word thou.
I think thou should þiss off
>>61989383
>thiss off
Idiot.
>>61989353
>Modern English has abandoned so many cool things in Old English
I'm okay with this. Without Norman influence Modern English would probably sound gay and shitty like Icelandic and Dutch.
>>61989353
literally blame puritans for ruining everything
elizabethan theatre? puritans ruined it
religious tolerance? puritans ruined it
golden age? puritans ruined it
using the word "thou"? puritans ruined it
>>61989431
>Normal influence
Non-existent. It was the Norgs who ruined Old English by half-assing it. They came to live to England and didn't bother learning the language properly. Why should they have?
>>61989383
thou shalt*
also þ is a thorn pronounced th you dumb pesudo-englishman
>>61989449
except this is bullshit we went literally straight back to what we had been doing in the reformation. america has done more to destroy our language than cromwell.
>>61989353
You might enjoy reading some Ezra Pound, then.
>>61996202
>>61989411
calm down lads, he was just taking the piþ