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!".   
      
      
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