Re: Farnham's Freehold and Alan E. Nourse

Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
Quadibloc wrote:
On Oct 28, 10:42 am, mstem...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Stemper)
wrote:

Since the area previously known as the "Orient" is west (by
shortest distance) of North America, it's an incorrect term. The
fact that a European would preferentially go east to get there is
a point of minor historical interest, but of no significance to
the real world.

Since the English language evolved to nearly its present form before
the Americas were even discovered,

If you refer to "discovered by Europeans", the Vikings did the
discovery around, what, 1,000AD? I don't think English was
RECOGNIZABLE by modern speakers at that point. 1492? Recognizable
but not nearly modern; even Shakespeare, a couple centuries on,
requires a lot of explanation to modern speakers to really make
sense.

Back up just a little more and you find an earliest emergence of that
which henceforth bespoke be of name Angleish.

Chaucer:1343 -1400

The inception of English is a moving target. Time flies like banannas.



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