"Oldeseadogge;c-17886233" wrote:
Won't say TS4 is dull, but studying Old English is more fun, and I'm having trouble with it.
Are... you... implying studying Old English
isn't fun?
Last guy who said that got thrown into a pit of snakes by King Ælla of Northumbria!
Fun fact about Old English, most English swear words are pretty much just normal OE words for bodily functions that the invading Normans tried to discourage.
There's a lot more to it than what I'm covering here, but it's more or less why words derived from French (the language of the Norman aristocracy) and Latin (the language of the church) are offered as "polite" versions of "rude" English words starting with F or SH, which are very Germanic sounds (of which English is a Germanic language, as opposed to French, which is a Romance language)
It's also why you don't eat "cow" (a hard K sound, another Germanic staple), you eat "beef".
You don't eat "sheep", you eat "mutton".
It's not "pig", it's "pork".
It's classist is what it is, it's discriminatory against peasants!
