Hallo Ed!   
      
    EV> I thought I could read English but can't make any sense of those   
    EV> words.   
      
   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.   
      
   Chaucer wrote in middle English which is at least a couple centuries after the   
   proverb in question was written (old English).  We have to wait until   
   Shakespeare before we see anything resembling what we call English.   
      
    EV> I couldn't make any sense of what he was trying to teach us back   
    EV> then.   
      
   Like everything, practice makes perfect.  I saw a linguist on a documentary   
   who claimed if you read Chaucer aloud it starts making more sense.  I claim   
   that it is all Greek to me.   
      
   Het leven is goed,   
   Maurice   
      
   ... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.   
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