Guess What, Bi-Yatches?

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  1. Silvara

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    Ah, Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe. Always fun to mess around with.

    Japes, I've read some books by Lawhead, namely a trilogy called Song of Albion. Good read, though the ending was sort of weird.
     
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    Agreed. The Pendragon Cycle series suffered from the same fault. I like his more recent stuff way better, like the Celtic Crusades trilogy, and Byzantium is probably my all-time favorite book.
     
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    Silvara, thou doth hit thyne nail on thee head!
     
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    ...That hurt my brain.
     
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    I knew what you were saying DarkFool, but I spent more time on your sentence than should be granted.
     
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    #86
    It wasn't that hard really, even though "on thee head" doesn't really make sense. Or it doesn't really say what he wanted to say in any case.
     
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    That and the "doth" got me for a while. Not a word you hear everyday in a town full of hicks.
     
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    #88
    Yeah, 'doth' 'harlot' and 'defenestrate' have seen a decrease in usage since I left town.
     
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    #89
    As long as you don't try to read the words it goes quite easy.

    But my brain started hurting when I looked at that sentence...
     
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    #90
    Harlot is such a fun word. It sees a lot of usage in Ellis Peters' Cadfael novels.

    (And if you like a good murder mystery against a frighteningly accurate historical backdrop, dig 'em out and read them. You won't be sorry. Just make sure you start with 'A Morbid Taste For Bones' and 'One Corpse Too Many' or none of the others will make sense. The first, second and fourth seasons of the series aren't bad either, but the third season made me and my mum whimper at how badly they raped the characters.)
     
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    #91
    If you say "doth" out loud the meaning is quite obvious actually.

    EDIT: I'd never heard of the word "defenestrate" before I attended university. It's a shame that I'd gone through so much of my life before attaining true enlightenment. Therefore, I've now made it my #1 priority to teach my students that all-important piece of English vocabulary.
     
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    I'm pretty sure "defenestrere" is listed in Norwegian dictionaries. So I'm sure you've it in Sweden too.
     
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    Maybe so, but I've neither heard nor seen anyone use it. Really, we have a poverty of vocabulary compared to those damn anglophones, their dictionaries are roughly four times as thick after all.
     
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    Voyage, journey, travel, all we have is "reise." I can see what you mean...
     
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    #95
    You forgot 'trek'
     
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    #96
    WARP CORE BREACH IMM-.....

    Nevermind.
     
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    #97
    Don't forget the ones like trip, expedition, ride, drive, flight, crossing, passage, and excursion.

    (And that's not counting any of the slang terms.)
     
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    #98
    Seeing all those, I can come up with a few more in Norwegian too, but not nearly as many.
     
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    I'm not a trekkie by any means, but I'm actually looking forward to the new Star Trek movie.
     
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    Cosidering "American" English borrows from every culture that makes the country up, it's no wonder we have 15 different words to describe one thing.
     
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