Re: [OM] the war is over, they won

[Chris Trask]

     And from whence wouldst thou derive pleasure for doing such?

     Something that I had wanted to do back when I was working was to submit a 
formal technical paper written in formal Elizabethan English.  I once heard a 
Thanksgiving dinner described in that manner on NPR and thought it was quite 
funny.  Took almost ten times the verbage.

>
>Why stop there? Why use that newfangled "you" and "yours" when you can 
>have fun with "thou", "thine" etc.?
>
> 
>>      I'm one of the few people who still uses diacritical marks, such 
>>as with coöperate, reënter, rôle, and other words with Olde English 
>>origins.  The New York Herald still used them into the late 1950s, and 
>>you can see the usage in the facsimiles of Jack London's serialized 
>>stories from the San Francisco Chronicle.
> 

Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
     - Hunter S. Thompson
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