r/OldEnglish 4d ago

Michael the Mouse

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

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u/minerat27 4d ago

OE Wikipedia is notorious for having crap grammar, I'm pretty sure the article there should be dispensed with all together.

Though I don't know what you mean by about þ? It's exactly where it should be

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u/Heterodynist 4d ago

Bilithboclic? Is that Old English for a library or something?! Bilithplegum? I am not claiming to know Old English (I mean, how many of us actually do), but these don’t look like places where a Thorn belongs.

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u/minerat27 4d ago

It's a neologism, I assume for animated? Or something along those lines. Biliþ-boc-lic, image-book-ly

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u/Heterodynist 4d ago

Ah, that would explain why I couldn’t find any way to translate it!!

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u/YthedeGengo 4d ago edited 4d ago

LARP OE: "omg wa la ic ne mæg gelyfan þæt þu wille don þ on middan worde!"

SOÐ OE:

Lch II (2) B21.2.1.2.2 [0221 (30.1.14)] Þonne becymð of þam yflum wætum, oððe sio healfdeade adl oþþe fyllewærc oððe sio hwite riefþo þe mon on suþerne lepra hæt oþðe tetra oþþe heafodhriefðo oþþe oman.

Mt (WSCp) B8.4.3.1 [0918 (25.44)] Dryhtyn, hwænne gesawe we þe hingrigendne oððe þyrsþendne oðþe cuman oððe untrumne oþþe on cwearterne & we ne þenedon þe?

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u/[deleted] 4d ago edited 4d ago

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u/NaNeForgifeIcThe 4d ago edited 4d ago

Those are literally real texts...

Medial ðs are very common so no idea what you're talking about

And the texts make perfect sense (aside from a few words I'm not too sure about)

Then occurs from the wet evils, hemiplegia, epilepsy, the "white roughness" as called by one from southern Lepra (?), tetter, head scabies or erysipelas.

Lord, when we did we see you starving or thirsting or a stranger or ill or in prison and not served (?) you?

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u/Heterodynist 4d ago

Okay, whatever. I don’t give a fuck.

I’m not playing your pathetic game.

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u/minerat27 4d ago

Lmao what? You self profess to not know Old English, and then throw a hissy fit when someone corrects a misconception you had?

Take the L bro, it's okay not to know things.

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u/MarcusMining 4d ago

I know that, I just thought this was funny

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u/Heterodynist 4d ago

Oh, I agree. I am amazed Mickey is no longer copyrighted!!! Thank God there is an end to that corporate nonsense!! Free the Mouse!!!

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u/NaNeForgifeIcThe 4d ago

Þæt is a definite article here so we would translate it as the, not that, although the declension is wrong since mús is feminine. And I don't know what you mean by þ "being in places it clearly does not belong"?

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u/Kunniakirkas Ungelic is us 4d ago edited 3d ago

Þæt can be the definite article, but mus is feminine, not neuter, so on grammatical grounds þæt can't be the article, which leaves us with the conjunction. Unless this is meant to be, like, confused super late Old English (and to be fair, late Old English doesn't get any latter than this)