tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post3005629028766956651..comments2023-08-28T20:55:37.738+08:00Comments on Satima's Blogspot: Common misuses: pronouns – subject and objectSatima Flavellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17427849961195148899noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post-38880239817531293492011-05-24T21:06:05.821+08:002011-05-24T21:06:05.821+08:00Linguists have clever ways of sussing out how lang...Linguists have clever ways of sussing out how language has changed over the years. One way we can all use is by reading rhyming poetry of the era to see the words they thought rhymed with each other - some of which we don't think rhyme today, as in Shakespeare's " Blow, blow, thou winter wind/Thou art not so unkind as Man's ingratitude".Satima Flavellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17427849961195148899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post-33555409551118261212011-05-24T20:18:04.525+08:002011-05-24T20:18:04.525+08:00As I mentioned before, the people of Harkers Islan...As I mentioned before, the people of Harkers Island in North Carolina, are extremely difficult to understand - I am not sure how one would really compare their speech to Elizabethan days though. The people are supposed to have been 'deposited' there by Sir Walter Raleigh.Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14087140585742801854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post-76183092551318308462011-05-24T17:51:03.273+08:002011-05-24T17:51:03.273+08:00Wow, what a neat idea for a plot, Sue! It just goe...Wow, what a neat idea for a plot, Sue! It just goes to show, inspiration is everywhere if we just open our eyes and ears! I'll have to check that one out!Satima Flavellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17427849961195148899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post-36276708153135497632011-05-24T15:57:26.613+08:002011-05-24T15:57:26.613+08:00I have heard of the North Carolina thing. In fact,...I have heard of the North Carolina thing. In fact, I recommend Susan Cooper's novel "King Of Shadows" in which a boy actor from North Carolina time travels and finds himself in Shakespare's London, appearing in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and nobody notices his accent is different, because it isn't.:-) Susan Cooper never mentioned it, but knowing about it, I suspected when I read that she had given us the boy's background deliberately!Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post-42982486776305972182011-05-22T22:22:23.682+08:002011-05-22T22:22:23.682+08:00I havent heard of those guys - will check 'em ...I havent heard of those guys - will check 'em out! But you do those odd pockets of archaic language. The Black Country of Staffordshire is another one. They still pronounce many words the same as they were pronounced in Chaucer's time, and some of their verb use is pure Middle English.Satima Flavellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17427849961195148899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post-46262898478710738642011-05-22T22:08:03.623+08:002011-05-22T22:08:03.623+08:00Actually there is an area in North Carolina, on th...Actually there is an area in North Carolina, on the islands, where they are supposed to speak English they way they did when they landed in the time of Sir Walter Raleigh. I'm not sure, I can't understand them anyway LOLJohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14087140585742801854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post-34347605809277660342011-05-22T21:41:38.715+08:002011-05-22T21:41:38.715+08:00Language changes all the time, Jo, and there's...Language changes all the time, Jo, and there's not much we can do about it. If it didn't change we'd still be speaking the way our grandparents did, or the way Dickens did, or Shakespeare, or Chaucer - how far back can we go?:)It's a natural process, but I do sometimes shake my head in despair at some of the directions it takes!Satima Flavellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17427849961195148899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post-18561342553298056172011-05-22T21:19:06.433+08:002011-05-22T21:19:06.433+08:00As you already know, I too get the heebie jeebies ...As you already know, I too get the heebie jeebies about misuses of words, but I think it happens a lot more in the New World countries than in the old. Or does it? Maybe I am out of touch with what is said in Britain these days. However I think a lot of the problem stemmed from a couple of hundred years ago when the majority of the people being driven out of their countries for one reason or another were not educated people plus the melds with other nationalities, and you end up with a pretty hodge podge spoken language today.Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14087140585742801854noreply@blogger.com