How times have changed

24 Jan 2010

I am researching my family tree and history and during this I come across many written documents from the past. The written and spoken word has changed so much. I wonder how it will sound in 200 years time>
The following is an exert from a book written in 1731 about the fire of Blandford;
"Most persons (which was observable) were at once seized with such a panic, that they gave up the town for lost. Quickly after the fire broke out. What hailed thee, O thou fire, that thou was so raging? That nothing could drive thee back? Was it not because thou hadst thy commission from above? Surely we have seen, we have felt thy power, O Lord! Ah, who can stand before God when once he is angry.
Before seven of the clock in the evening (which was about four hours after the fire began) there was scarce an house remained."

24 Jan 2010

Quote by Bluefish2009
I am researching my family tree and history and during this I come accross many written documents from the past. The writen and spocken word has changed so much. I wonder how it will sound in 200 years time>
The following is an exert from a book ritten in 1731 about the fire of Blandford;
"Most persons (which was observable) were at once seized with such a panic, that they gave up the town for lost. Quickly after the fire broke out. What hailed thee, O thou fire, that thou was so raging? That nothing could drive thee back? Was it not because thou hadst thy commission from above? Surely we have seen, we have felt thy power, O Lord! Ah, who can stand before God when once he is angry.
Before seven of the clock in the evening (which was about four hours after the fire began) there was scarce an house remained."

Language change is a fascinating subject; it keeps folk in jobs!

24 Jan 2010

Some times it feels like I am reading a totally foreign language

24 Jan 2010

Quote by Bluefish2009
I am researching my family tree and history and during this I come across many written documents from the past. The written and spoken word has changed so much. I wonder how it will sound in 200 years time>
The following is an exert from a book written in 1731 about the fire of Blandford;
"Most persons (which was observable) were at once seized with such a panic, that they gave up the town for lost. Quickly after the fire broke out. What hailed thee, O thou fire, that thou was so raging? That nothing could drive thee back? Was it not because thou hadst thy commission from above? Surely we have seen, we have felt thy power, O Lord! Ah, who can stand before God when once he is angry.
Before seven of the clock in the evening (which was about four hours after the fire began) there was scarce an house remained."

I hope he was grateful. lol

24 Jan 2010

Quote by Bluefish2009
Some times it feels like I am reading a totally foreign language

Sorry... I can't help being a Scouser! wink

24 Jan 2010

Quote by Ms_Whips
trying to work out what the hell all the chavs are on about between all the fuck this and fuck that is an artform in itself!
sat at the front of the bus last weekend i was appauled listening to girls sitting a the back swearing their heads off as though it's just all part of normal language. i hate it and it's not an uncommen thing around me anymore either. i usually sit at the front of the bus and listening to girls being so crude and vulgar just makes me cringe. thank goodness for loud music and earphones.
i don't mind language evolving but that is jut really bad and i do wonder what it will be like in years to come.
whips

That is some thing that has changed such a lot and I agree, its horrid to hear. I never swore in from of my parents, not even after I left home, and equally I never heard my mother swear and my father very rarely, and when he did it was normally trying to undo a very tight nut and bolt, I can hear him now, "that's as tight as buggery" of coarse I had no idea what it meant at the time.

24 Jan 2010

All we need now id for Minnie Caldwell ( to pop her clogs and it will be the snug in the Rovers in 1963.

27 Jan 2010

"Most persons (which was observable) were at once seized with such a panic, that they gave up the town for lost. Quickly after the fire broke out. What hailed thee, O thou fire, that thou was so raging? That nothing could drive thee back? Was it not because thou hadst thy commission from above? Surely we have seen, we have felt thy power, O Lord! Ah, who can stand before God when once he is angry.
Before seven of the clock in the evening (which was about four hours after the fire began) there was scarce an house remained."Or
Loads of peeps I could see were well crapping themselves thinking the whole place was bolloxed It was all so quick. What the fu*k happened I dont know but it weren't half hot. So hot you couldn't get near it and it just kept bloody coming. I reckon itr was something to do with the most haunted crew pissing about with ouija boards last night didn't help. Pissed someone off. It happened just after tea while the simpsons was on TV and was finished, Fuck all left of the place, by the end of start of celebrity Big brother late n live.