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Could this possably be a good thing?
Throbblefoot:
One method to figure out general how the language sounded is to compare poems written in the given era and examine the words the writer thought rhymed. For example, there are rhymed couplets in Elizabethian sonnets that don't rhyme in modern English of any British dialect, but rhymed then (prove/love being one of my favorites). So you take the complete works of Shakespeare and Jonson (and etc.), catalog all the rhymes, and correlate the data until you come up with a general idea of which words sounded the same. It's a nasty piece of work that only the truly mad would contemplate. That's why historical linguistics is a nasty, mean-spirited field filled with extremely dedicated, single-minded pedants who really, really, care about the origins of language.
Myself excluded of course.
-Throbblefoot
Talon:
--- Quote ---One method to figure out general how the language sounded is to compare poems written in the given era and examine the words the writer thought rhymed. For example, there are rhymed couplets in Elizabethian sonnets that don't rhyme in modern English of any British dialect, but rhymed then (prove/love being one of my favorites). So you take the complete works of Shakespeare and Jonson (and etc.), catalog all the rhymes, and correlate the data until you come up with a general idea of which words sounded the same. It's a nasty piece of work that only the truly mad would contemplate. That's why historical linguistics is a nasty, mean-spirited field filled with extremely dedicated, single-minded pedants who really, really, care about the origins of language.
Myself excluded of course.
-Throbblefoot
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I can naturally rhyme prove/love - but then im celtic - and special :)
Throbblefoot:
I know one other dude who naturally rhymes prove/love:
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Soul Sojourner:
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Mercy:
--- Quote ---Ive looked for the definition of the word 'enmass' in a third dictionary. I cant find it, therefore can u tell me its meaning, or was it misspelled? I dont know if u understand my point... i dont deny the credit shakespeare has recieved, im saying there have been many rumors since the 1800s, claiming shakespeare actually did not write many of his plays, that they were rather written by Sir Francis Bacon or Christopher Marlowe or the Earl of Oxford. Now if by any chance these rumors are true.. then shakespeare obviously does not deserve the title of best english writer in history... and also Elessar i asked how is it possible to know the way shakespeare pronounced his words; the argument was about accents, not about the slight variation of the meaning of words like 'alone'.
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Now Im not positive, as it has been quite some time since my British Lit class. But the theory on Shakespeare's plagiarism had been proven wrong I had thought. And that it was just a bad rumor that had started because the four writers were friends and were disliked by quite a few people. I may be wrong, but that was my idea on the matter.
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