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: 2001-02-05 08:46:17 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!209.113.65.250!korova.insync.net!uunet!sac.uu.net!usenet.rational.com!not-for-mail From: "Mark Lundquist" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Latin, Shakespeare, Ecclesiastes and other irrelevant topics Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:32:45 -0800 Organization: Rational Software Message-ID: <95mkjp$snm$1@usenet.rational.com> References: <94p9fl$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> <3A7B5EC8.55E203D2@acm.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: ext-2048.rational.com X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4941 Date: 2001-02-05T08:32:45-08:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter 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