Richmond, is this Scots or just badly spelled 16th Century English? A genuine enquiry
The stait of man dois change and vary, Now sound, now seik, now blith, now sary, Now dansand mery, now like to dee; Timor mortis conturbat me. Graham > On 28 Aug 2020, at 21:22, Richmond via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Very droll: that's a load of Frenchies having fun. > > On 28.08.20 19:44, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: >> If the painting is any indication of a real event, the Scots would be well >> advised to build their bon fires a wee bit further from the wooden ladders >> they are torturing their victims on. :-) >> >> Bob S >> >> >>> On Aug 28, 2020, at 9:09 AM, Richmond via use-livecode >>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >>> >>> Well, I suppose it is funny: about as funny as pointing out to those people >>> in Utah who spawned this idiot that >>> undder Scots law as a citizen of a Scottish colony whose indepndence is >>> only de facto under Scots law he should >>> suffer the death sentence for treason: drawing and quartering. >>> >>> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/BNMsFr2643FroissartFol97vExecHughDespenser.jpg >>> >>> On 28.08.20 18:54, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: >>>> 😆 >>>> >>>>> On Aug 28, 2020, at 7:59 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode >>>>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Almost every article on the Scots version of Wikipedia is written by one >>>>> American teenager who can't speak Scots >>>>> >>>>> "A veelage is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a >>>>> hamlet but smawer than a toun, wi a population rangin frae a few hunder >>>>> tae a few thoosand (sometimes tens o thoosands)." >>>>> >>>>> https://boingboing.net/2020/08/27/almost-every-article-on-the-sc.html >>>>> https://www.scotslanguage.com/news/5724 >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Mark Wieder >>>>> ahsoftw...@gmail.com >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> use-livecode mailing list >>>>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>>>> subscription preferences: >>>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> use-livecode mailing list >>>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>>> subscription preferences: >>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode