A question to the Brits, Yanks and other English natives

[editeur]

Do you understand yourself that something is kind of wrong when similar words are spoken absolutelly differently?

http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html

[AllAboutCams]

Jesus i had to read that 5 times

[F-U-Jimmy]

Translation please

[Barry-xlovecam]

What's the point? That is written in English prose c.1922.

a·gue
ˈāˌgyo͞o/
noun
archaic
noun: ague

malaria or some other illness involving fever and shivering.
a fever or shivering fit.
plural noun: agues

Origin
Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin acuta (febris ) ‘acute (fever).’

You know what archaic means?

It's not used in the modern English language.

[Barry-xlovecam]

ar·cha·ic
ärˈkāik/
adjective
adjective: archaic

very old or old-fashioned.
"prisons are run on archaic methods"
synonyms: obsolete, out of date, old-fashioned, outmoded, behind the times, bygone, anachronistic, antiquated, superannuated, antediluvian, old world, old-fangled; More
ancient, old, extinct, defunct;
prehistoric;
literaryof yore
"archaic conventions"
antonyms: modern
(of a word or a style of language) no longer in everyday use but sometimes used to impart an old-fashioned flavor.
of an early period of art or culture, especially the 7th?6th centuries BC in Greece.
"the archaic temple at Corinth"

Origin
mid 19th century: from French archaïque, from Greek arkhaikos, from arkhaios, from arkhē ?beginning.?
Translate archaic to
Use over time for: archaic

Archaic and archive?
Root word :ARCH-meaning old.

Archaic words are the "zip files" of the language ...

[DamianJ]

Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam

What's the point? That is written in English prose c.1922.


You know what archaic means?

It's not used in the modern English language.

1922 isn't really archaic. Chaucer is. This, not so much. Which words in the poem do you not think are used today.

[Barry-xlovecam]

Originally Posted by DamianJ

1922 isn't really archaic. Chaucer is. This, not so much. Which words in the poem do you not think are used today.

• First of all, that poem is 92 years old and not written in the currently used American English, I suspect also in the Queen's English, just as a poem written today in rap style will most likely be archaic in 2114.
  
• Secondly, I have no intention of taking the time to make a count as I could care less really. Perhaps, severely outdated might be a better term.
  
• Finally, to a person not a native speaker of English that prose would be confusing as hell -- I had thought that was the OP point - the screen-name is editeur, a French word and the thread title is asking "native English speakers" for opinions. Éditeur de texte, logiciel destiné à la création et l'édition de fichiers textes.
  
• postscript: I stopped at the first totally archaic word I noticed to cite an example of that prose being a ridiculous example of modern English use.

[rogueteens]

Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam

• First of all, that poem is 92 years old and not written in the currently used American English, I suspect also in the Queen's English, just as a poem written today in rap style will most likely be archaic in 2114.

Why would a Dutch author use American English, when to use the English language properly you use English (or as called by Americans "British English")

[ruff]

Originally Posted by editeur

Do you understand yourself that something is kind of wrong when similar words are spoken absolutelly differently?

http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html

Yes. And no.