Thursday, October 13 2005: Revival
I have this urge to be-englisc modern English. (It seems I'm not alone.) But I've never been very successful. My most recent efforts:
- A friend and I brewed a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale clone named Hrithe Ridge (a clever calque of the New World Spanish, I thought).
- yit (originally git in OE) for ye two. Numerous Indo-European languages had a second person plural that meant "the two of you" (an argument could be made that ModEng still does in the phrase "you two", but that seems to me more of a work around, due to the lack of compact pronoun than anything else). Anyway, I actually had an occassion to use yit in an email message and I took it. It felt good.
