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Love the analogy!
Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation - Alasdair Gray
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I am attempting to be a professional writer, but have to content myself with a day job until plucked from obscurity. So can confidently anticipate working until I get granted my silver carriage clock and a telemessage from the queen ...
Don't worry about a review. You've kind of given it in the above post. All feedback welcome. It's kind of like focus groups and my work is like marmite - extreme enough in taste for people either to love it or hate it. But few will remain indifferent to it !
Mr Sulcus, my verbose friend, thank you for the loquacious grandiloquent fairy tale. I must find you another subject to keep you writing in this manner. You lift my uneventful, uninspiring, unstimulating unexciting days with your florid prose. The original subject, I believe, was unreviewed reviews, that I also have suffered recently. May I offer you a FW to repair a little of the damage caused by these uncaring insensitive individuals?  I love marmite by the way.
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Quote: Saxon Annie, Friday, 5 Jun 2009 15:59I am attempting to be a professional writer, but have to content myself with a day job until plucked from obscurity. So can confidently anticipate working until I get granted my silver carriage clock and a telemessage from the queen ... Don't worry about a review. You've kind of given it in the above post. All feedback welcome. It's kind of like focus groups and my work is like marmite - extreme enough in taste for people either to love it or hate it. But few will remain indifferent to it ! Mr Sulcus, my verbose friend, thank you for the loquacious grandiloquent fairy tale. I must find you another subject to keep you writing in this manner. You lift my uneventful, uninspiring, unstimulating unexciting days with your florid prose. The original subject, I believe, was unreviewed reviews, that I also have suffered recently. May I offer you a FW to repair a little of the damage caused by these uncaring insensitive individuals? I love marmite by the way.
Why thank you M'Lady. I've been meaning to ask, how Saxon are you ? Cos my latest work in progress, which is even more impenetrable than my usual guff, is looking at the origins of the English language, between its Saxon words and the Norman French. A very interesting time for all us Brits ...
"A,B&E", "Not In My Name" and "52FF" (flash fiction anthology) all available on Amazon Kindle
"How a psychopath makes sweet love. I can get you ringside. Royal box even."
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quote "Cos my latest work in progress, which is even more impenetrable than my usual guff, is looking at the origins of the English language, between its Saxon words and the Norman French. A very interesting time for all us Brits ... " When are you going to post this, Marc? I specialised in Anglo-Saxon and Early Middle English at uni, and have been teaching it on and off ever since, so I'd be very interested to see it. Athene
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Scias te fortasse Romanum esse si animal convivialissimum arbitreris esse caprum (Henricus Barbatus) my website
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Quote: Athene, Friday, 5 Jun 2009 18:13quote "Cos my latest work in progress, which is even more impenetrable than my usual guff, is looking at the origins of the English language, between its Saxon words and the Norman French. A very interesting time for all us Brits ... " When are you going to post this, Marc? I specialised in Anglo-Saxon and Early Middle English at uni, and have been teaching it on and off ever since, so I'd be very interested to see it. Athene I'm halfway through first draft but have had to put it on hold to market and self-publish previous completed work. I don't want to give the wrong impression, as the Saxon/Norman duality is treated metaphorically rather than as historical study. But it is a novel about language and its slipperiness and imprecision and traces the roots back to this split.
"A,B&E", "Not In My Name" and "52FF" (flash fiction anthology) all available on Amazon Kindle"How a psychopath makes sweet love. I can get you ringside. Royal box even."
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Why thank you M'Lady. I've been meaning to ask, how Saxon are you ? Cos my latest work in progress, which is even more impenetrable than my usual guff, is looking at the origins of the English language, between its Saxon words and the Norman French. A very interesting time for all us Brits ...
 
Now you are talking my language, my book is about a woman who goes back in time to the Saxons when they first invade Britain. As she learns their language I bring in about Saxon being the basis of our language along with a little Romano Celt. I had to do quite a lot of research 'cos I didn't want to look like an idiot. I haven't gone as far as learning the Saxon language yet (the internet helped a lot) but that is one of my next self imposed tasks. I also bring in how they calculated their months to coincide with the sun and moon and farming. I brought fantasy into the story to lift it away from a history text.
I love our language, it is such a hotch-potch of others but guess what? Everyone else loves it too and uses it. The Oxford concise dict. has the origins of most words at the foot of each entry and when i realised this it made my search for words a lot easier, for now anyway until I learn more. I have David Crystals Encyclopaedia of English language and to be honest that is what started my interest. 
I would love to be able to afford a good book on the Saxon language. Some words have no translation though because they have disappeared from use so I have been unable to stick to Saxon words onlyin my Saxon speech which was my original intention.
 I would love to know how you get on with it.
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Quote: Athene, Friday, 5 Jun 2009 18:13quote "Cos my latest work in progress, which is even more impenetrable than my usual guff, is looking at the origins of the English language, between its Saxon words and the Norman French. A very interesting time for all us Brits ... " When are you going to post this, Marc? I specialised in Anglo-Saxon and Early Middle English at uni, and have been teaching it on and off ever since, so I'd be very interested to see it. Athene Hello Athene, I'm sorry to butt into a post not meant for me but you have just pressed the right interesting buttons for me. These are subjects I would love to study if I could. I should have known from your story Ready steady dig, the clues are there. I read it when I first joined the site but was too afraid to give it a free willy. I loved it. My interest first started with the Romans and then went on to Saxon as I became more interested in the language. They all blend together at some point. Have you any advice on a good book about Saxon English?
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Quote: Saxon Annie, Friday, 5 Jun 2009 19:04Quote: Athene, Friday, 5 Jun 2009 18:13quote "Cos my latest work in progress, which is even more impenetrable than my usual guff, is looking at the origins of the English language, between its Saxon words and the Norman French. A very interesting time for all us Brits ... " When are you going to post this, Marc? I specialised in Anglo-Saxon and Early Middle English at uni, and have been teaching it on and off ever since, so I'd be very interested to see it. Athene Hello Athene, I'm sorry to butt into a post not meant for me but you have just pressed the right interesting buttons for me. These are subjects I would love to study if I could. I should have known from your story Ready steady dig, the clues are there. I read it when I first joined the site but was too afraid to give it a free willy. I loved it. My interest first started with the Romans and then went on to Saxon as I became more interested in the language. They all blend together at some point. Have you any advice on a good book about Saxon English? Annie, don't apologise - I warn you, I can bore for England on the subject of Anglo-Saxon, and will do so at the drop of a hat. Grammar or vocabulary, or both? For the former, Quirk & Wrenn is good, and so is Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer. For vocab, I used to use Clark Hall & Merritt, but I've recently found the OEME dictionaries site on line, which is terrific, as it's a "two-way" dictionary, unlike Clark Hall & Merritt, who never seem to have realised that one might want to translate from Modern English into Anglo-Saxon as well as the other way round. For a book on the language itself, I seem to remember that Baugh (? A C Baugh) is good, and Simeon Potters' Our Language is brilliant. I've no idea if it's still in print - my copy cost 3/6, whicn gives you an idea of how long I've had it ... Please don't Freewilly Ready, Steady, Dig! - then I can live in hope that you'll get it as an assigned review and give it a boost! There are a lot of Beowulf references in it, some obvious and some very obscure - that's because the final book in the series is going to be a prequel, set in the early Anglo-Saxon period. No one has yet spotted the modern day descendents of Grendel and Beowulf, but they're both there in RSD ... Email me if there's anything I can help with re Anglo-Saxon. Or of course we could just hijack this thread! Waes thu hael! Athene P.S. Have you discovered the opening chapters of "Domesday" on YWO? By Bob Garrod. Great stuff.
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Scias te fortasse Romanum esse si animal convivialissimum arbitreris esse caprum (Henricus Barbatus) my website
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'Domesday' and 'dombec' both in my book ...
"A,B&E", "Not In My Name" and "52FF" (flash fiction anthology) all available on Amazon Kindle"How a psychopath makes sweet love. I can get you ringside. Royal box even."
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Please don't Freewilly Ready, Steady, Dig! - then I can live in hope that you'll get it as an assigned review and give it a boost! There are a lot of Beowulf references in it, some obvious and some very obscure - that's because the final book in the series is going to be a prequel, set in the early Anglo-Saxon period. No one has yet spotted the modern day descendents of Grendel and Beowulf, but they're both there in RSD ...
Email me if there's anything I can help with re Anglo-Saxon. Or of course we could just hijack this thread!
Waes thu hael!
Athene
P.S. Have you discovered the opening chapters of "Domesday" on YWO? By Bob Garrod. Great stuff.
Found 'Domesday' and downloaded, I've read a little and it llooks good. I will take any offers of help with my Saxon knowledge that you can give. I am fascinated with them. I don'y want to hijack the thread though because I love Sulcus' overblown, loquacious anecdotes and I would hate for him to stop posting them. I'll e-mail you.
My Lord Sulcus, 
would you do me the honour of a minstrels tale told in Medieval England. I have dark thought that crease my brow and would have a merry tale to chase away the shadows.
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Another lightweight
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