Can this blogger be the first – with the exception of my professor, the Most Adorable Medievalist ever - to suggest an immediate linguistic reversion to Middle or Old English? Think how awesome this would be! For one, we would get to use thorns, eths, ashes (diagraphs roughly analogous to th, th, and ae, in that order), which already makes Old English about ten times cooler than the contemporary variety. But, I hear you say, if I wanted to do that, I'd just move to Scandinavia! Fair enough. I wish I could do that myself.
There are, however, still more possibilities: just think of the verbs! Middle English had this absolutely amazing tendency towards strong verbs - that is, verbs with irregular past participles. Instead of help, helped, had helped, we'd have help, halp, had holpen. Awesome, no?
And just think of the adjectival possibilities! And the nouns! Forget saying: "I knew that I wasn't really crazy," with Middle English, you can freely tell your friends "I wot that I nere passing wood." AND THEN THE WORLD WILL BE BETTER.
Also, nonstandard spelling means I no longer have to be concerned that one of my writing students turned in a comment card last week that said: "your doing good as a teacher." Sigh.
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