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What exactly are you asking here? Which Anglo-Saxon words do you mean, and how do you mean ‘transliterate’? What do Greek, Arabic, or Hebrew have to do with this? And why would transliteration have anything to do with it? — Janus Bahs Jacquet18 mins ago
> It is in the records of the fifth century that the word ‘Anglo-Saxon’ first appears. Indeed it was King Æthelstan who, among other high titles such as Bretwalda and Caesar, first styled himself Ongulsaxna cyning, that is, ‘King of the Angel-Saxons’. But he did not speak ‘Anglo-Saxon’, for there never was such a language. The king’s language was then, as now, Englisc: English.
> If you ever heard that Chaucer was the ‘father of English poetry’, forget it. English poetry has no recorded father, even as a written art, and the beginning lies beyond our view, in the mists of northern antiuquity. To speak of Anglo-Saxon language is thus wrong and misleading. You can speak of an ‘Anglo-Saxon period’ in history, before 1066. But it is not a very useful label. There was no such thing as a single uniform ‘Anglo-Saxon’ period.
@tchrist In the same way as there are Hiberno-Scottish words, Italo-Celtic words, Dutch-German words, etc., there were also undoubtedly Anglo-Saxon words, i.e., words that were shared (and at least more or less identical) between the Anglian and Saxon languages.
There is no "operator precedence" notion in English regarding "and" and "or": those are programming or mathematical concepts.
To make the precedence explicit (i.e. to avoid ambiguity) you would make one group a parenthetical, usually with commas, extra words, or a change in word order:
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Delayed acceptance. I answered that three years ago and it just got accepted today.
One man in a thousand, Solomon says, Will stick more close than a brother. And it’s worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. Nine hundred and ninety-nine depend On what the world sees in you, But the Thousandth Man will stand your friend With the whole round world agin you.
‘Tis neither promise nor prayer nor show Will settle the finding for ‘ee. Nine hundred and ninety-nine of ‘em go By your looks or your acts or your glory.
@JanusBahsJacquet kip, verb [entry#1] Obs. Forms: 3-4 kippe, 4 kip, kyp, 4-5 kyppe; pa. t. 3 kypte, 3-4 kipte, kipt, 4 kyppid. Etymology: ME. kippen: cf. ONor. kippa to snatch, tug, pull; also MDutch kippen to catch, grip, G. dial. (Swiss) kippen to steal, ‘prig’. trans. To take hold of, take in the hand, seize, snatch, catch.
@tchrist Not sure, actually. There seem to be quite a lot of words in older Danish that were all kip, and I’m not sure which one is the one in kipled. I think probably it’s from the verb kippe meaning something like rocking or swerving back and forth.
@tchrist But the tilting/swerving/rocking verb is probably the same as the ON snatch/tug/pull verb. Those two meanings are bunched together in the ODS (Dictionary of the Danish Language, going back to around 1600).
@tchrist Same in Danish. Consider that our verbs all end in [ə], so the dictionary form of kip as a verb is kippe, the ODS has 17 entries.
@Robusto Well, words that you use when you try to call a cat to you, at least. We have several, most commonly kiskiskiskis, mismismismis, or kisserkisserkisserkisser.
@oerkelens How about the amusement a man feels seeing another man whack himself in the crown jewels with a badminton racquet? That’s a more familiar scenario to me.
@JanusBahsJacquet I’m just too used to writing Felices pascuas and such, so it just popped out of my fingers unbidden. It’s not like I don’t know 3rd declension adjectives have different gen-sg from nom-pl forms. The fingers do what they will, like constantly typing someone for somewhat. I have a ruler by my desk to rap them with, but it doesn’t help.
@oerkelens Oh yes. It’s just the agileness and techniques that yoga gives you that kind of don’t go too well with general clumsiness and gracelessness.
Similarly, I’m a great dancer … until I trip over my own feet and take half the party down with me.
(I have actually one time witnessed such an argument escalate to the point of a regular brawl—about ten people on each side trying to beat each other up, some with bricks and things. Very bizarre. That was two Chinese men, though, no Japanese involved.)
@Robusto Sure, sure! Only the proverbial ones are evil.
@tchrist "My brother in law, who specialises in criminal law with respect to [some applicable legal term] law, suggested this might be illegal. What do you think?"
And perhaps add "he urged me to sue, but I don't know what to do".
@Robusto No one who has not seen the endless mile piled upon mile utterly blanketed by kudzu understands the sleepless malice that threatens to engulf the entire world below the frost line.
There is no "operator precedence" notion in English regarding "and" and "or": those are programming or mathematical concepts.
To make the precedence explicit (i.e. to avoid ambiguity) you would make one group a parenthetical, usually with commas, extra words, or a change in word order:
It wi...
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