David Crystal - Home Page. Des insultes du XVIIIe siècle... pittoresques ! Jeudi 12 janvier 2012 4 12 /01 /Jan /2012 17:00 Voici quelques « aménités » du langage des halles au XVIIIe siècle, distillées par le chansonnier et dramaturge Jean-Joseph Vadé, inventeur du « genre poissard », genre théâtral et poétique imitant le langage et les mœurs du bas peuple des halles : A l'adresse des femmes : Cul pourri. Matelas d'invalides. Meuble de ménagerie. A l'adresse des hommes : Echappé de Bicêtre. Partager l'article ! InShare Par Le Blog pittoresque - Publié dans : Brèves 0.
Embarrassing Mistakes Made While Learning Languages. ESL Pronunciation exercises. Funny English Words | Advanced English Vocabulary. Old English revival. This is a proclamation from King Canute, who was King of England from 1016-1035, to his earl Thorkell the Tall and the English people written in AD 1020. It would be great if English was still like that. Cnut cyning gret his arcebiscopas and his leod-biscopas and Þurcyl eorl and ealle his eorlas and ealne his þeodscype, twelfhynde and twyhynde, gehadode and læwede, on Englalande freondlice. And ic cyðe eow, þæt ic wylle beon hold hlaford and unswicende to godes gerihtum and to rihtre woroldlage.
Ic nam me to gemynde þa gewritu and þa word, þe se arcebiscop Lyfing me fram þam papan brohte of Rome, þæt ic scolde æghwær godes lof upp aræran and unriht alecgan and full frið wyrcean be ðære mihte, þe me god syllan wolde. Nu ne wandode ic na minum sceattum, þa hwile þe eow unfrið on handa stod: nu ic mid godes fultume þæt totwæmde mid minum scattum. Translation: And I make known to you, that I will be a civilised lord and uncheating to God's laws and to worldly laws.
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