The last one buggered up the 0xfe character (3 of them) and for what ever reason changed them to 0xa4. So let us try it again;

Wide ne bi¤ wel, cwæ¤ se ¤e gehyrde on helle hriman.

Looks okay in the editor but let us see what happens when it is saved.

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The last one buggered up the 0xfe character (3 of them) and for what ever reason changed them to 0xa4. So let us try it again;
Wide ne bi¤ wel, cwæ¤ se ¤e gehyrde on helle hriman.
Looks okay in the editor but let us see what happens when it is saved.

Still buggered it up. ::sigh:::

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06-05-18 03:56 Maurice Kinal wrote to Maurice Kinal about one more time
Howdy! Maurice,

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The last one buggered up the 0xfe character (3 of them) and for what ever reason changed them to 0xa4. So let us try it again;
Wide ne bi. wel, cw.. se .e gehyrde on helle hriman.
Looks okay in the editor but let us see what happens when it is saved.

Still buggered it up. ::sigh:::

I thought I could read English but can't make any sense of those words.

Looking at them made me think of a Tenth Grade High School English Teacher telling his class about Chaucer's writings.

I couldn't make any sense of what he was trying to teach us back then.


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Hallo Ed!

I thought I could read English but can't make any sense of those
words.

Things are bad everywhere, said the man who heard wailing in hell.

Looking at them made me think of a Tenth Grade High School
English Teacher telling his class about Chaucer's writings.

Chaucer wrote in middle English which is at least a couple centuries after the proverb in question was written (old English). We have to wait until Shakespeare before we see anything resembling what we call English.

I couldn't make any sense of what he was trying to teach us back
then.

Like everything, practice makes perfect. I saw a linguist on a documentary who
claimed if you read Chaucer aloud it starts making more sense. I claim that it
is all Greek to me.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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06-05-18 15:38 Maurice Kinal wrote to Ed Vance about one more time
Howdy! Maurice,

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Hallo Ed!

I thought I could read English but can't make any sense of those
words.

Things are bad everywhere, said the man who heard wailing in hell.

Looking at them made me think of a Tenth Grade High School
English Teacher telling his class about Chaucer's writings.

Chaucer wrote in middle English which is at least a couple centuries
after the proverb in question was written (old English). We have to
wait until Shakespeare before we see anything resembling what we call English.

I couldn't make any sense of what he was trying to teach us back
then.

Like everything, practice makes perfect. I saw a linguist on a documentary who claimed if you read Chaucer aloud it starts making more sense. I claim that it is all Greek to me.

There is a story about one person saying that they were fluent in almost
all Languages, except Greek, and asked the person they were with to tell
him a word and ask him to say it in some other language.

After hear the Word and what Language the person wanted to hear it in,
the first person would hold up his hands and say "That's Greek to Me!".


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Wide ne bi~ wel, cw~~ se ~e gehyrde on helle hriman.
Looks okay in the editor but let us see what happens when it is saved.
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Again, FWIW!

Mike

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Like everything, practice makes perfect. I saw a linguist on a documentary who claimed if you read Chaucer aloud it starts making more sense. I claim that it is all Greek to me.

I believe it actually does help, if you pronounce the words phonetically as
you speak them.

Mike

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Hey Mike!

I believe it actually does help, if you pronounce the words
phonetically as you speak them.

I was just looking at some examples online and what you say can and does work for the Chaucer examples I saw. However for some of the earlier examples of Middle English my success rate was far worse since the examples hadn't evolved much from Old English. Looking at the Modern English translations later tald the tale.

It's been ages since I've read any Chaucer.

Life is good,
Maurice

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In a message on 06-07-18 Mike Powell said to Maurice Kinal:

Hi Mike,

Like everything, practice makes perfect. I saw a linguist on a documentary who claimed if you read Chaucer aloud it starts making more sense. I claim that it is all Greek to me.

I believe it actually does help, if you pronounce the words
phonetically as you speak them.

Languages differ very much in how they should be spelled. Some
languages, like italian and finnish, are pronounciated just like they
are written, while others like spanish and french require your tongue
to turn every way.


Have a good night,

Holger


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It's been ages since I've read any Chaucer.

True story -- what first got me interested in reading Chaucer was the line
"as the Miller told his tale" in the song "A Whiter Shade of Pale" by
Procal Harum. :) We did have to read a couple of the other tales in
school, but that was the one I actually have read (more than once) without being told to. :)

Mike

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Hallo Mike!

what first got me interested in reading Chaucer was the line "as

MP: the Miller told his tale" in the song "A Whiter Shade of Pale" by

Procal Harum.

I remember it well. The timing sounds about right for both that song and Chaucer with respect to my awareness of such things.

My recent searches were more Middle English centric and after looking at many examples I came to the conclusion that Chaucer isn't all that difficult to follow as I previously thought given the other examples of Middle English I found.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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