i see

[tywy_99]

That certainly answered my question.............................with a bang!

[Guest blsqueaky]

HUH?????? 

Same here

[tywy_99]

There was a post I thought was here that I posed a question I thought I did. Well, It just suddenly dissappeared like a David Copperfield illusion!.....

 

Maybe it is just too early in the morn'n............where's my prozac?......

[tywy_99]

Okay......

........let's go "full circle" here and I will say,..................i see.______

[kfman]

just remember...

 

 

Perspective!!!

 

[Guest blsqueaky]

Okay......

........let's go "full circle" here and I will say,..................i see.______

Sorry, hangover, I no see right now, check back later, time for the eagles, bloddy mary, then I will see

[John & Hai Yan]

Okay......

........let's go "full circle" here and I will say,..................i see.______

Actually, as a former English teacher myself, I would point out that the gramatically correct English construction would be, "I don't see."

[cosmiclobster]

Okay......

........let's go "full circle" here and I will say,..................i see.______

This visual acuity deficiency could be the first signs of "Cheetoeous emptius bagus"

[Trigg]

Okay......

........let's go "full circle" here and I will say,..................i see.______

Actually, as a former English teacher myself, I would point out that the gramatically correct English construction would be, "I don't see."

A former English teacher???? Was there a former English I haven't been made aware of?? How does it differ from the present English?? What happened to it?? Was it to difficult to learn??

 

Inquiring minds want to know!

[John & Hai Yan]

Okay......

........let's go "full circle" here and I will say,..................i see.______

Actually, as a former English teacher myself, I would point out that the gramatically correct English construction would be, "I don't see."

A former English teacher???? Was there a former English I haven't been made aware of?? How does it differ from the present English?? What happened to it?? Was it to difficult to learn??

 

Inquiring minds want to know!

Inquire no further Trigg! Here is some "former" English I once taught.

 

The Canterbury tales in Middle(Former) English and Modern English.

 

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/CT-p...rolog-para.html

 

The Canterbury Tales : Prologue

 

 

Here bygynneth the Book

of the tales of Caunterbury

 

Here begins the Book

of the Tales of Canterbury

 

 

Middle English

1: Whan that aprill with his shoures soote

2: The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,

3: And bathed every veyne in swich licour

4: Of which vertu engendred is the flour;

5: Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth

6: Inspired hath in every holt and heeth

7: Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne

8: Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,

9: And smale foweles maken melodye,

10: That slepen al the nyght with open ye

11: (so priketh hem nature in hir corages);

12: Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,

13: And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,

14: To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;

15: And specially from every shires ende

16: Of engelond to caunterbury they wende,

17: The hooly blisful martir for to seke,

18: That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.

 

Modern English

When April with his showers sweet with fruit

The drought of March has pierced unto the root

And bathed each vein with liquor that has power

To generate therein and sire the flower;

When Zephyr also has, with his sweet breath,

Quickened again, in every holt and heath,

The tender shoots and buds, and the young sun

Into the Ram one half his course has run,

And many little birds make melody

That sleep through all the night with open eye

(So Nature pricks them on to ramp and rage)-

Then do folk long to go on pilgrimage,

And palmers to go seeking out strange strands,

To distant shrines well known in sundry lands.

And specially from every shire's end

Of England they to Canterbury wend,

The holy blessed martyr there to seek

Who helped them when they lay so ill and weal

 

19: Bifil that in that seson on a day,

20: In southwerk at the tabard as I lay

21: Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage

22: To caunterbury with ful devout corage,

23: At nyght was come into that hostelrye

24: Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye,

25: Of sondry folk, by aventure yfalle

26: In felaweshipe, and pilgrimes were they alle,

27: That toward caunterbury wolden ryde.

28: The chambres and the stables weren wyde,

29: And wel we weren esed atte beste.

30: And shortly, whan the sonne was to reste,

31: So hadde I spoken with hem everichon

32: That I was of hir felaweshipe anon,

33: And made forward erly for to ryse,

34: To take oure wey ther as I yow devyse.

 

Befell that, in that season, on a day

In Southwark, at the Tabard, as I lay

Ready to start upon my pilgrimage

To Canterbury, full of devout homage,

There came at nightfall to that hostelry

Some nine and twenty in a company

Of sundry persons who had chanced to fall

In fellowship, and pilgrims were they all

That toward Canterbury town would ride.

The rooms and stables spacious were and wide,

And well we there were eased, and of the best.

And briefly, when the sun had gone to rest,

So had I spoken with them, every one,

That I was of their fellowship anon,

And made agreement that we'd early rise

To take the road, as you I will apprise.

 

35: But nathelees, whil I have tyme and space,

36: Er that I ferther in this tale pace,

37: Me thynketh it acordaunt to resoun

38: To telle yow al the condicioun

39: Of ech of hem, so as it semed me,

40: And whiche they weren, and of what degree,

41: And eek in what array that they were inne;

42: And at a knyght than wol I first bigynne.

 

But none the less, whilst I have time and space,

Before yet farther in this tale I pace,

It seems to me accordant with reason

To inform you of the state of every one

Of all of these, as it appeared to me,

And who they were, and what was their degree,

And even how arrayed there at the inn;

And with a knight thus will I first begin

[Robert S.]

Oh, that Middle English has a beautiful look and feel to it. One of my old college English teachers told the class one day that when he was young his teacher made his class memorize the first 100 lines of the Canterbury Tales, in the original spelling and pronunciation, and he recited a nice chunk of it for us, and he really made the the epic feeling of the poetry come alive. I memorized Hamlet's soliloquy just to keep my mind from deteriorating too much while in Marine Corps boot camp (I had written my mother and told her to send me a page from my old paperback). My stepdaughter is now going to school at the Intensive English Language Institute and I hope she really enjoys the adventure she is beginning. I have always wanted to teach English, and have done so for my wife and our daughter and hope to go to China and teach at some point, for the fun of it, but I don't think Chaucer will be part of the classwork. Modern English is trouble enough now.

[Trigg]

Gheeeeezzzz!! I withdraw the question!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Now what was it this canteberry guy was trying to say??

[John & Hai Yan]

Oh, that Middle English has a beautiful look and feel to it.  One of my old college English teachers told the class one day that when he was young his teacher made his class memorize the first 100 lines of the Canterbury Tales, in the original spelling and pronunciation, and he recited a nice chunk of it for us, and he really made the the epic feeling of the poetry come alive.  I memorized Hamlet's soliloquy just to keep my mind from deteriorating too much while in Marine Corps boot camp (I had written my mother and told her to send me a page from my old paperback).  My stepdaughter is now going to school at the Intensive English Language Institute and I hope she really enjoys the adventure she is beginning. I have always wanted to teach English, and have done so for my wife and our daughter and hope to go to China and teach at some point, for the fun of it, but I don't think Chaucer will be part of the classwork.  Modern English is trouble enough now.

Robert,

 

When I was an English major at Penn State I had to take an entire semester long course on Chaucer. I also had to take a similar course on Shakespeare. I prefered Shakespeare. It was a lot easier. We read the entire Canterbury tales in my Chaucer course in the middle English dialect. Then we had to write a number of papers during the course critiquing his writings.

 

Robert, I know you are a wordsmith yourself, so you ought to go for teaching at some point. I enjoyed teaching English, but what I loved most was teaching literature. If you don't teach, you ought to at least write that book that you have inside you.

[egolessvegan]

John, I also attended Penn State. I think we might have been there about the same time. What a coincidence!

Ken

[Mengxin]

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