Re: Nobody proposing new uk newsgroups - why ?

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 17:37:20 GMT, Rusty Hinge 2
<rusty.hinge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The message <slrndqkn9c.5ak.chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> from Chris Croughton <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> contains these words:
>> On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:52:29 GMT, Rusty Hinge 2
>> <rusty.hinge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > The message <slrndqi44v.dsj.chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > from Chris Croughton <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> contains these words:
>> >
>> >> But they were pressed, not burnt, I doubt if anyone using CDs for backup
>> >> has the money to get each one pressed (as I recall setup charges for a
>> >> CD pressing are on the order of a few thousand pounds). I have some
>> >> paper books which are still readable after 100 years of having been read
>> >> regularly (ones which have been looked after last longer, many hundreds
>> >> of years).
>> >
>> > Aye, I have one which is still readable after 400 years, FSVO readable,
>> > unless you are educated and can read Classical Greek. However, for the
>> > uneducated, it has parallel text - in Latin...
>
>> A textbook, or a bible?
>
> Neither. Suetonius.

Ah, the recipe book. Yes, the man who hgave his name to that staple of
English cuisine, suet pudding <g>...

>> The English of 400 years ago is still perfectly
>> readable (apart from spellings, but I've had bosses whose spelling was
>> distinctly Elizabethan in its variability and lack of adherence to what
>> any dictionary says <g>). Much over 400 years is pushing it, a lot of
>> people struggle with Chaucer (620 years or so) and Mallory (around 550),
>> and relatively few can read Old English easily. I suspect that the
>> Greek and Latin have changed little in that time...
>
> Well, scolarship has amended our understanding of them.

They haven't changed as much as English. I'm told by a Greek person
that they can still read Homer's Greek easier than we can read Chaucer
(and even more so for Icelandic vs. Old Norse, it's no worse than an
accent or a mild dialect).

Chris C
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