Should I stop speaking old English?

Answer 1

You can speak old English? Cool.

Or do you speak Shakespearean English? That's Early Modern English or Renaissance English. Beowulf was orginally penned in Old English.


Edit - OK, let's make it clear for everyone - SHAKESPEARE IS NOT WRITTEN IN OLD ENGLISH

Answer 2

Will, sweetie, Aelfred spoke Old English. You keep getting confused. Oh, and, it was that dreadful Chaucer next door who used to speak Middle English, wasn't it? I'm so glad he moved away, all that noise all night.

Here, Will, lean back, I've fixed your pillow for you. You speak perfectly proper Modern English, don't you? Yes, you do, that's right. Just a few archaic words here and there, and that silly informal "you", I wish you'd get rid of it.

Here's your ale, Will, there's a good boy.

Answer 3

Forsooth Will, you would ask this of a wench after the way you dissed Ophelia and other ladies who leaped ( lept?) from your fanciful mind? Methinks you are making merry and jesting after too many tankards of ale. And I trow that the word "old" shoulde be spelled "olde" as in ye olde Englishe. Just speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it trippingly on the tongue...and do not mouth it.....bla bla bla...Anyhow, you've got Shakespeare confused with Chaucer.

Answer 4

No, you shouldn't I love the old english accent, it sounds great and I love shakespear how did you know, well don't You are lucky you still speak it because people still want to speak an accent like that.

Answer 5

Please. It makes a bad first impression. I thought you were a lunatic when I read one of your questions. Earth to you: your living in today's world, you know, the twenty first century. Otherwise, it is totally your choice. I think it is a way of expressing your individuality. Although old English and computers is an odd but funny if you think about it mix!

Answer 6

In your own words...
"What win I if I gain the thing I seek?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?
Or sells eternity to get a toy?
For one sweet grape who would the vine destroy?
Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown,
Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?

Any other questions?

Answer 7

do u like speak it all the time...if yes then....um..well good for you. Are you an english professor or something like that???i mean i'm just trying to figure out why you do it? as long as it doesn't hurt or offend anyone i think ur okay...i guess!

Answer 8

I doubt you know what Old English is

Answer 9

Verily, I say unto you good Shakespeare, perchance you should mean Elizabethean English? Prithee, my good man, a right man you might be; anon.

Answer 10

Come now fair Bill, one doth protest too much

What light by yonder window and all that.....

tis most beautiful to thy ears