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- ********0
yeah. I need more discipline I reckon. Also I need a new place. People here don't bet on certain activities.
I was thinking about goint into scientology to raise my self-esteem but then I decided to think twice:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/enter…
J/K.
I decided i will build a site and see how it evolves and go along with it.
thx for your input atk. godspeed.
- ********0
decided=stale?
Atkinson
(Aug 20 07, 14:09)sort of. decided=do.
- Atkinson0
I reckon
- ********0
reckon is a lovely word. akin to the scots "ken". i don't know why you people do not use it anymore ;)
- Atkinson0
ken?
- ********0
yup. reckon (truth tell)
the seafarer, one of the 1st poems carved in england starts with:
Mæg ic be me sylfum / soðgied wrecan,
(May I for myself / a true tale tell)
that Ezra Pound translated for:
"May I for my own self song's truth reckon"
- Atkinson0
blimey, good stuff. Maybe a job in that!
- ********0
soðgied wrecan,
soð (sooth=truth/gied=guise, interpretation - akin to german song/"lied")
wrecan (reckon=put forth, give as knowledge)
- Atkinson0
all good!
- ********0
you people don't study OE in school?
- ********0
oh well why should you? we study old portuguese and it doesn't get us anywhere...
- Atkinson0
Nah, not that I can remember. Art/ sick room for games / physics and chemistry for blowing things up.
- ********0
but my hands are thight!
Calde geþrungen // wæron mine fet,/ forste gebunden,
Cold struck // [So] were my feet,/ by frost bound,
cheers. goodnight.
- ********0
no one cares about language anymore.
but i do.
:)
- Atkinson0
haha