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Came across the “ye olde english” tag which perplexed me since nothing in that tag is actually Old English. 🤔
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Bardcore such as this is one of the great things to come out of 2020.
I’ve considered translating “The Heart Carol” in medieval Latin with Gregorian chant.
Thank you.
…Or perhaps Beowulf? :)
I can’t tell you I recognized this (or can even read it, really), but I admit I wasn’t too surprised that it turned out to be from The Battle of Maldon, lines 200-203. Those lines can be found translated in various places, but here’s a representative:
Let’s be fair: Maldon would be pretty much Luna’s cup of tea, I daresay.
“Ye Olde English” tag is for stuff written in faux-Shakespearean English, in much the same way as the butchered(e) English on pub signs around the world: “Ye Olde Englishe Pubbe” for example. :P Needless to say, even if this mangled English was corrected, it would be Early Modern English, not Old English.
“Old English”, on the other hand, is the tag for genuinely Old English language, or works that at least closely approximate it. The former tag “Anglo-Saxon” has also been aliased into this tag.
Though I agree with you completely, the “Old English” tag deserves to have much more stuff posted under it. I did once threaten somewhere to translate the G3.5 MLP theme song into Old English, I might actually do that someday (although it’s a tad longer than the G4 theme that I already did xD)
I’m sure people irl understand the difference, but the history of ponies doesn’t use it(according to current canon sources at least), so “ye olde English” is Early Modern English in Equestria, and is what ponies used back one thousand years ago. So it doesn’t matter in the end, does it?
That’s known as Early Modern English. Why don’t people understand the distinction?