The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that the English language is as pure as a crib-house whore. It not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary.
—James Nicoll, can.general, March 21, 1992

I still refuse to accept that "ebonics" in some way shape or form shares a common lineage with english.

In reply to Camella Catkins (msg #21):

I disagree. English has a bound word order. While Hungarian for example has an unbound.

In reply to Camella Catkins (msg #26):

the idea of ebonics was created by a racist who was basically saying black children were too genetically inferior to learn "real" english.

Greek, too ? Never heard of the greeks invading GB, must have skipped that part of history lesson... chuckle... would have expected Scandinavian instead... marauding vikings and all that ;-)
This message was last edited by the player at 05:17, Mon 04 Oct 2010.

I would pick: celtic (briton), latin (romans), frisian/german (saxon), german/scandinavian (danes), french (normans)

Us vikings invade anything around....there is actual a couple of settlements now villages in Ireland that have danish sounding road and place names.

In reply to Leo Kastleman (msg #29):

Early latin incorperated a lot of greek, not to mention it was almost a second language of the empire, particulary among scholars. So it's no surprise.

True. 'He has no greek' was an insult in the roman upper circles.

But the english language was most influenced by the legionares - which spoke only Latin.

Wanda, Tyre and Ivan, please post, so we can move on!

Sorry, really hectic still and been missing quite a bit of sleep.  >.<

I am ill, will post when I am better. Gm, feel free to move things on.

In reply to Ivan Yelkanov (msg #36):

I hope you'll be alright soon!

I feel better today, so should be on the mend  :)

In reply to Linolil Annamar (msg #33):

But their Centurions and Primus did speak greek, if only a smattering here and there. Which over any period of time is more then enough to infiltrate an evolving language.

Hey GM, how many silver throwing daggers were there again? And how much did they way?

"Aaahhh that Manfred...yes...he was unfortunately killed by Gustav in Marguele." eer in Folburg.

Anyone remembers how much silver daggers has been made? To answer Camella's question.

4 silver throwing daggers

which M took, but looks like Camella has now

There are 4 then yes, Mannfred bought them from the stringany merchant as I remember.

In that case Linolil will divide them as posted.

Actually, Tyre, we were planning on heading back to the crossroads rather than the town.

Only if you still wish to learn about the location of the necromancer's tower, the reason for the state of Father Siegfried and perhaps it's cure and the location of the Black Coach...

Grins.

Yes, only if.

Of course the other routes will have a nice comfy house at the end where we can get that info without hassle.

Really.

I always notice that I have grammatic errors in my poems >.<

Artistic license, Nagash. Your original poem as sang by Gawin was wonderful.