Message from @TradChad

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2018-10-05 05:45:31 UTC  

Nay, drihten secean is supposed to be vice versa

2018-10-05 05:45:53 UTC  

no it's not because the writer who wrote this in old english didn't write it that way

2018-10-05 05:45:56 UTC  

I know not why am so sad

2018-10-05 05:46:00 UTC  

and he was a native old english speaker

2018-10-05 05:46:10 UTC  

But it wearies me you say it wearies you

2018-10-05 05:46:39 UTC  

It's not pure english

2018-10-05 05:46:43 UTC  

It's a dialect

2018-10-05 05:46:48 UTC  

It is pure old english

2018-10-05 05:46:52 UTC  

West Saxon.

2018-10-05 05:46:53 UTC  

it's West Saxon Old English

2018-10-05 05:46:58 UTC  

yeah that's the main literary dialect

2018-10-05 05:47:10 UTC  

if you see an Old English text it's probably gonna be West Saxon Old English

2018-10-05 05:47:16 UTC  

Main aspect is

2018-10-05 05:47:21 UTC  

"It was West Saxon that formed the basis for the literary standard of the later Old English period"

2018-10-05 05:47:25 UTC  

It hit one rock in transcripture

2018-10-05 05:47:44 UTC  

This guy is no Shakespeare

2018-10-05 05:48:10 UTC  

The guy that wrote beowulf is an ancient Shakespeare

2018-10-05 05:48:11 UTC  

<:PepeChill:378748692741750794>

2018-10-05 05:48:13 UTC  

not ancient

2018-10-05 05:48:14 UTC  

but

2018-10-05 05:48:15 UTC  

old

2018-10-05 05:48:16 UTC  

ok

2018-10-05 05:48:24 UTC  

There is no recorded author of beowulf

2018-10-05 05:48:26 UTC  

Is there

2018-10-05 05:48:33 UTC  

it's anonymous

2018-10-05 05:48:35 UTC  

Also

2018-10-05 05:48:39 UTC  

I think

2018-10-05 05:48:41 UTC  

It's not pure west saxon

2018-10-05 05:48:52 UTC  

I just noticed

2018-10-05 05:48:56 UTC  

I don't care

2018-10-05 05:49:08 UTC  

There's Northumbrian and Kentish linguistics

2018-10-05 05:49:21 UTC  

I know you don't know about it

2018-10-05 05:49:27 UTC  

Sure you do

2018-10-05 05:49:41 UTC  

It definitely took a stumble

2018-10-05 05:49:44 UTC  

Hello

2018-10-05 05:49:50 UTC  

It was written during Rurik's time

2018-10-05 05:49:52 UTC  

Like

2018-10-05 05:50:07 UTC  

You'd expect it to be perfectly translated

2018-10-05 05:50:20 UTC  

Beowulf is a true story man

2018-10-05 05:50:26 UTC  

I know

2018-10-05 05:50:34 UTC  

Beowulf is a great epic