From: "Mark Lundquist" <mark@rational.com>
Subject: Re: Latin, Shakespeare, Ecclesiastes and other irrelevant topics
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:32:45 -0800
Date: 2001-02-05T08:32:45-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <95mkjp$snm$1@usenet.rational.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3A7B5EC8.55E203D2@acm.org
Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote in message
news:3A7B5EC8.55E203D2@acm.org...
> 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.
Hey wise guy, what's the big idea dragging Shakespeare into this? Can't we
stay on-topic for one minute?
The nerve of some people....
:-)
-- mark
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2001-01-26 16:31 ` Latin and other irrelevant topics Robert Dewar
2001-01-26 20:24 ` Florian Weimer
2001-01-27 5:12 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-27 13:58 ` Pat Rogers
2001-01-27 16:25 ` Florian Weimer
2001-01-28 0:09 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-28 0:08 ` Latin, Shakespeare, " Robert Dewar
2001-01-28 3:51 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-28 13:00 ` Pat Rogers
2001-01-29 1:40 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-29 4:23 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-29 5:29 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-29 17:32 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-29 17:34 ` Pascal Obry
2001-01-29 6:04 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-29 17:39 ` Pascal Obry
2001-01-29 18:53 ` David Starner
2001-01-30 6:15 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-30 15:54 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-30 19:32 ` Martin Dowie
2001-02-02 22:11 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-02-03 0:17 ` David Starner
2001-01-29 16:16 ` Stephen Leake
2001-01-30 1:21 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-29 23:05 ` kopilovitch
2001-02-02 21:52 ` Latin, Shakespeare, Ecclesiastes " Mark Lundquist
2001-02-03 1:28 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-02-05 16:32 ` Mark Lundquist [this message]
2001-02-05 19:36 ` Al Christians
2001-02-07 18:59 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-02-08 19:19 ` Florian Weimer
2001-02-08 5:15 ` Latin, Shakespeare, " Buz Cory
2001-02-08 7:38 ` Al Christians
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2001-02-08 16:00 ` Ted Dennison
2001-02-08 19:47 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-01-26 21:06 ` Latin " Lao Xiao Hai
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