Re: VMs: VMS not Welsh? oh well....

[Jim Gillogly <jim@xxxxxxx>]

GC wrote:
> Quite.  One can certainly pick apart an excerpt such as "ped-stans
> skubent, stokked kimbo", but it is disengenuous not to quote the
> passage in its entirety, to allow others to determine whether or
> not these words are appropriate in context:

That's a fair cop.  I couldn't find my xerox of Strong's article
in my filing cabinet, so I found what I could in a few minutes on
the web.  I didn't see the whole thing anywhere in the few minutes
I looked.

> It would take a very special mind to make something like this up.

The same could be said of a lot of the attempted solutions,
including Newbold.  Fact is, as you point out, there
*are* a lot of very special minds out there!  A lot of them
occupy themselves with "decrypting" things.

> I wondered at why Anthony Ascham's English would be so different
> from his brother Roger, but with an understanding that their
> formative years were spent quite separate and in different
> environs, this became no problem at all.

What other English writers used Anthony's dialect, as exhibited
in Strong's decryptions?  Is this also how Anthony's other works
look?  This isn't intended as a disingenously subtle remark: I'm
not a linguist, and don't pretend to know the range of historical
English dialects.
--
	Jim Gillogly
	Mersday, 12 Afteryule S.R. 2003, 09:28
	12.19.9.15.18, 2 Edznab 11 Kankin, Third Lord of Night

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