Nethercote: Twenty years of Valgrind
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Nethercote: Twenty years of Valgrind
Posted Jul 29, 2022 8:34 UTC (Fri) by gevaerts (subscriber, #21521) [Link]
Nethercote: Twenty years of Valgrind
Posted Jul 29, 2022 11:16 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]
So Scots, which is a DIFFERENT LANGUAGE to English, has different words, different pronouncation, different grammar, but being derived from Old Anglish (as opposed to English, derived from Saxon), comes from very similar roots and is mutually comprehensible (mostly). Just like Scouse or Geordie.
And then we have the Queens English, or Received Pronounciation, or BBC English, or whatever the snobs like to call it which - despite being the newest dialect - is taken to be gospel.
And the long a - as in "farther" - is very much a new, Queens English pronounciation acquired during the Frenchification of Modern English. My family still laugh sometimes at my flat a's in words like castle, or bath, despite the flat a being ye olde traditionally correct pronounciation EVERYWHERE.
Don't get me wrong - I'm all for standards - and when I go up north the dialect sometimes is incomprehensible, but don't you dare tell me it's wrong - it's been around a lot longer than modern "correct" English.
Cheers,
Wol
Nethercote: Twenty years of Valgrind
Posted Jul 30, 2022 21:17 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Nethercote: Twenty years of Valgrind
Posted Jul 30, 2022 21:55 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]
600 years? "Modern English" is only 600 years old ... are you thinking of Normanisation?
I'm thinking of Frenchification - probably during the (late?) Georgian period - when it was fashionable for the nobility to speak French and write their English with French spellings ...
Cheers,
Wol
Nethercote: Twenty years of Valgrind
Posted Jul 30, 2022 21:23 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
RP is not by any means the newest dialect! It's old and has been wearing fuzzy slippers for quite some time now (and is little spoken any more: the accent spoken by, say, your average Cambridge grad is definitely not RP, and you basically never hear it even on the BBC any more unless you're listening to old recordings). Listen to what the kids are speaking in London now: forget the grammar and even vocabulary, even the phonetics are different. To me as a speaker of something quite like the Cambridge accent who grew up surrounded by the levelled accents of the 1980s south-east, it's amazing. Some people speaking Multicultural London English sound almost like they're singing to my ear :) my niece can code-switch in and out of that effortlessly: one dialect speaking to her friends, something quite different speaking to boring old adults like us.
Nethercote: Twenty years of Valgrind
Posted Jul 29, 2022 18:15 UTC (Fri) by HenrikH (guest, #31152) [Link]
In the original Grímnismál it's written as Valgrind in old Icelandic (which is as close to old norse as we can come) and not as Vælgrind. And Icelandic have æ just as Danish and Norwegian does so it's not omitted due to the character not being there.
Valgrind heitir,
er stendr velli á
heilög fyr helgom durom;
forn er sú grind,
en þat fáir vito,
hvé hón er í lás lokin.
Nethercote: Twenty years of Valgrind
Posted Jul 29, 2022 18:19 UTC (Fri) by HenrikH (guest, #31152) [Link]
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