06-05-18 15:38 Maurice Kinal wrote to Ed Vance about one more time
Howdy! Maurice,

 MK> @MSGID: <5B16F67F.6095.fi-linux@capitolcityonline.net>
 MK> Hallo Ed!

 EV> I thought I could read English but can't make any sense of those
 EV> words.

 MK> Things are bad everywhere, said the man who heard wailing in hell.

 EV> Looking at them made me think of a Tenth Grade High School
 EV> English Teacher telling his class about Chaucer's writings.

 MK> Chaucer wrote in middle English which is at least a couple centuries
 MK> after the proverb in question was written (old English).  We have to
 MK> wait until Shakespeare before we see anything resembling what we call
 MK> English.

 EV> I couldn't make any sense of what he was trying to teach us back
 EV> then.

 MK> Like everything, practice makes perfect.  I saw a linguist on a
 MK> documentary who claimed if you read Chaucer aloud it starts making more
 MK> sense.  I claim that it is all Greek to me.

There is a story about one person saying that they were fluent in almost
all Languages, except Greek, and asked the person they were with to tell
him a word and ask him to say it in some other language.

After hear the Word and what Language the person wanted to hear it in,
the first person would hold up his hands and say "That's Greek to Me!".


... Each experiment, success or failure, is a learning experience.
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