[Sca-cooks] languages

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 09:38 AM 12/14/02 +0100, you wrote:
>No, Swedish is a clear German language but it was relative easy for me to
learn me
>Swedish since I had a relative good English and German when I came to
Sweden.

Yes, Swedish is one of the Germanic-root languages, like German, Norvegian,
Icelandic, Danish, etc. When reading the medieval versions, it can
sometimes be difficult to differentiate between Old German, Old Norse, Old
Frisian, Old English, etc. Very interesting especially when you are working
on a text (Beowulf) in Old English, about Geats and Saxons and Danes and
Swedes... and monsters that are ever so much like some from the Old Norse
tales...

I had a year of Anglo-Saxon (Usually called Old English) and so I can
sometimes puzzle out other Germanic Lauguages. Sometimes. A little. Hwaet!

>PS: how do you spell conscient? Or choice?

As in 'a conscient choice'? The first is 'conscious'. Choice is as used.

Really Ana, I don't have any problems reading your posts. I've spent tnough
years working with old texts (and mind you, English is not immutable- it is
very fluid and seldom resembles itself for more than a few years at a time)
that what might look to be anachronisms to others are barely noticable to
me. And Again, we've already establish for the record that I am pretty
peculiar.

;-D)

'Lainie
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