If you thought we were finished with weird English, I'm back with an even more… erm… entertaining take. You can blame the usual suspects, ABA and Sharon, who pass on interesting articles.
Aaron Alon is a musicologist, composer, song writer, script writer, director, filmmaker, professor, and humorist. Shortly before the coronavirus pandemic, he assembled a video about making English consistent, a huge task. This is the result.
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I particularly like the Hamlet reading, don't you? But wait, there's more. Alon wasn't done.
Following comments and critiques, he came up with a supplemental video in which he, well, sings a classic. Here you go.
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What did you think? Aaron said he might consider a video about making constants consistent. I'm still figure out, "I tot I taw a puddy-tat."
Okay, I promise no more weird English slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. For at least a week.
English is not so much a language as six or seven of them welded together. And Celtic was already fragmented by the time the Romans threw Latin into the mix.
ReplyDeleteAnd why the hell couldn't the Danes and the Normans drive the "ough" and silent k's from the original Anglo-Saxon? The Saxons were awful people anyway, just for the "ough" alone.
(Except for Alfred the Great. He was awesome.)
Welding is a good analogy. And some of those spot welds have rusted and broken.
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