Rhyin al'Hut
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Hello Ranyor & welcome to the site!
Thank you for the welcome! I really enjoy translating dead languages. That is in part because I have a terrible time pronouncing other languages, which is why I like ones that are purely written. It really is interesting how languages morph over time.Welcome! so pleased to meet you!
I would love to learn Old English! Languages are hard for me but it is so interesting how languages morph and pull from other languages down through the centuries.
Love thisThank you for the welcome! I really enjoy translating dead languages. That is in part because I have a terrible time pronouncing other languages, which is why I like ones that are purely written. It really is interesting how languages morph over time.
Old English, for example, is the form of English from the fall of the Roman Empire until the Norman invasion in 1066 CE, when the French Normans invaded, and which generally marks the beginning of Middle English. Originally, it was a Germanic languages and is close enough to modern German that I could understand a little of what my aunt said at family gatherings. When the Normans invaded, the upper class words took French variants while the lower class ones stayed English, like "beef" vs "cow" (see more here), which have persisted until modern times.
In the the extended version of the LotR movies, there are a few different places that Old English is used among the Rohirrim, and even Theoden's speech in Helm's Deep ("Where is the horse and rider?') comes from an Old English poem, "The Wanderer."
I double majored in English & History originally, and chose to study abroad as well (I spent a summer studying at Wycliffe Hall, one of the Oxford colleges) in part so I could have access to the Bodleian Library. The Roman ruins at Verulamium were fascinating, as was The Kilns (C.S. Lewis’s house).Love this
I studied language at uni, not a dead one tho! But I did choose Iceland to go to as an exchange student in secondary school because I wanted an edge on learning Old Norse
(I planned to study history at uni)
Originally, it started with Koine Greek as an undergraduate.Welcome!
What inspired you to study "dead" languages?
I know many people who left Baptist denominations and found their way to older, more liturgical ones.Yup. That's about how I wound up converting from Baptist to Eastern Orthodox. I never really got SUPER into the Greek, but definitely got bit by a bug for "what does this REALLY say?"
What did you get your MA in? I'm currently in grad school for clinical mental health.