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Oct. 12th, 2005 12:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ithikaUgh. It's so difficult to talk about hermits for 500 words or so. Especially when they wrote in
Old English, and all the sources you have from them are in Old English.
Just realised that the reason this didn't happen with St Catherine (Who I've just decided I quite liked, poor crazy dear) was because she would have written in Italian. Sure, it might've been Ye Olde Italian, but that's not going to make it any more or less understandable to someone that only speaks modern English, and translating it into Old English makes no sense, because it's not like you're preserving anything except the incredible phoneticness of the Middle Ages.
Which brings me to another point:
The (deliberate) bad spelling that is rife in the writings of today's youth in the form of text-language and webspeak etc... no, I can't say that. I like Medieval People.
Nevermind!
Old English, and all the sources you have from them are in Old English.
Just realised that the reason this didn't happen with St Catherine (Who I've just decided I quite liked, poor crazy dear) was because she would have written in Italian. Sure, it might've been Ye Olde Italian, but that's not going to make it any more or less understandable to someone that only speaks modern English, and translating it into Old English makes no sense, because it's not like you're preserving anything except the incredible phoneticness of the Middle Ages.
Which brings me to another point:
The (deliberate) bad spelling that is rife in the writings of today's youth in the form of text-language and webspeak etc... no, I can't say that. I like Medieval People.
Nevermind!