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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 07:55pm on 2003-11-01

I wonder whether there's an onstigende wendere (no, that's not a stæfleahtor and my gesamnung does not have a wælwyrm -- read on) that knows this idelgylp and can convert a random webb tramet using these Englisc words. But as long as the Circolwyrde Wordhord is on my leohtspeccabord, it's quite a distraction. (I'm impressed -- it even includes "hundcu"!) I'd better make a æstel. (I hope everyone's ymbsceawere shows the þorns and eðs and ligatures (and any other special regol) correctly. If not, it's a wyrm.)

Okay, so this ærende isn't exactly nyttendfreondlic, I'll admit. But if you're wondering what I'm babbling, you can RTGL (ræde þa gehæmendan larboc) It's amazing what you can find on the woruldwidewebb, isn't it? Please don't bælweorpan me for this. Here, have a grennung. :-)

Wow, that took a lot of sniðan and clifian. My mus got quite a workout!

(Alas, I don't know enough of the language to write the whole ærende in it, so I have to resort to this pidgin. But wow, I'm such a oferleornere for doing this. Blame it on poor sleep. It's naptime.)

Hey, anyone got a wordwyrhta that'll let me enter these characters without having to type þ and æ all the time? Foreadihtung options for 'vim'?

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posted by [personal profile] siderea at 05:29pm on 2003-11-01
Talk about anachronistic! They even have a word for "head-crash". When was the last time you had a head crash? And "dot-matrix printer"; yeah, there's a term I use every day. :)
 
posted by [identity profile] butterfluff.livejournal.com at 05:40pm on 2003-11-01
Do you have a character on the keyboard you don't use very often? (At least in text?) I would use { for ash, and } for thorn, then at the end do a global replace with the html.

If you aren't using any other ampersand characters, maybe anpersand and the vertical OR.
 
posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 11:42pm on 2003-11-02
Oh, dearlove,
I only just kind of got Middle English and "The Wife of Bath's Tale" scared me. Machiavelli with tits and that kinda thing. What's gonna happen if I figure this stuff out? Where do I go for runes and other strange characters? Not tonight. I still have to finish researching geckos.

Butterfluff, if you're willing, I'd like the stats on that book I got a vague glance at. I want one.
 
posted by [identity profile] butterfluff.livejournal.com at 02:45am on 2003-11-03
Lancelot Hogben
The Mother Tongue
alibris.com
Share and enjoy.
 
posted by [identity profile] butterfluff.livejournal.com at 02:54am on 2003-11-03
And just as a suggestion, to get a message to me, go to my entries and post a comment, even irrelevant. I will be more likely to see it. I do not always check back on my comments to others.
 
posted by [identity profile] thedward.livejournal.com at 10:59am on 2003-11-03
On a related note, check out these excerpts from "Uncleftish Beholding" by Poul Anderson, and also the Ander-Saxon entry at wikipedia.org. Fun stuff. :)

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