Hi there, I was just wondering if there's something that would help me translate everyday English into old English (by old English I don't mean Old English, but rather the English they spoke around the peak of the Witch Craze, etc). I just read the edited-to-look-like -the-original-version-probably-did edition of the Scarlet Letter, and I'm just obsessed with the English they speak.
I write sentences like "'Tis but a vilest of lies," but sometimes I get the feeling that they don't make sense in either modern English or old one. Or in any sort of language, for that matter.
Uh, and before you tell me to study "Structures of the English language in pre-Revolutionary times" at an online university for "just 9.99 per hour", I don't have credit card, am under eighteen and my monthly income is about two hundred bucks. I live with my dad and a ***** he got off some dumpster (we believe in recycling by re-using instead of throwing away), and do not own a car. Nor plan to
2006-06-14
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