From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fca456da8e6ec463 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-02 17:28:45 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!209.50.235.254!europa.netcrusader.net!207.172.3.44!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3A7B5EC8.55E203D2@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Latin, Shakespeare, Ecclesiastes and other irrelevant topics References: <94p9fl$a1g$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <94qbb4$bs1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <94rkj1$d4r$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <87k87i2ha7.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <94vnup$kia$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <954svq$mt1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <95fbiu$nen$4@usenet.rational.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 01:28:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.178.185.170 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 981163724 63.178.185.170 (Fri, 02 Feb 2001 17:28:44 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 17:28:44 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4899 Date: 2001-02-03T01:28:44+00:00 List-Id: Mark Lundquist wrote: > [The King James Bible] of course has the > "thee/thou/ye" forms, which even in 1611 were obsolete, having dropped from > usage some 200-300 years before ... An interesting assertion, considering that Shakespeare used them pervasively when writing less than 50 years before, and 225 years before was when Chaucer was writing late Middle English, and such things were definitely in common use then. -- Jeff Carter "You tiny-brained wipers of other people's bottoms!" Monty Python & the Holy Grail