The "Speaketh In King James" thread

[didymos]

I think shakespeare was around when king james english was being spoken.

Um I mean... Thou thinkest shakespeare doth speaketh ye olde english.

Thou art mistaken.

"Ye olde" is a pseudo-Early Modern English stock prefix, used anachronistically, suggestive of a Merry England, Deep England or "old, as in Medieval old" feel. A typical example would be Ye Olde English Pubbe or similar names of theme pubs...

The anachronistic use of "ye olde" dates at least to the late 18th century.. The use of the term "ye" to mean "the" is based in Early Modern English, in which the could be written as þe, employing the Old English letter thorn, þ. During the Tudor period, the scribal abbreviation for þe was

(or "þ[SUP]e[/SUP]" with modern symbols); here, the letter ⟨þ⟩ is combined with the letter ⟨e⟩.Because ⟨þ⟩ and ⟨y⟩ look near-identical in medieval English blackletter (as the ⟨þ⟩ in

compared with the ⟨y⟩ in y[SUP]e[/SUP]), the two have since been mistakenly substituted for each other. The connection became less obvious after the letter thorn was discontinued in favour of the digraph ⟨th⟩. Today, ye is often incorrectly pronounced as the archaic pronoun of the same spelling...

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_olde


You've probably seen phrases like "Ye Olde Tavern" or "Ye Olde Shoppe" scrawled across English-language signs, trying to evoke a sense of the medieval. But the practice of naming shops this way didn't start until the late 19th century and it was done to make things sound, well, old...

... the word "olde" spelled O-L-D-E didn't exist at all until the 19th century. Spellings of "old" in premodern English, he explains, include "alde," "auld," "awld," and "ole." "Olde," not so much.

The entry for "olde" in the Oxford English Dictionary would seem to confirm this, defining the word thus:

Used as an archaism, originally commercially, later also freq. ironically, for old adj. Sometimes with other words spelt archaistically, as Olde English(e) . Occas. as n. in of olde: in an earlier time or period (cf. old n.1 4). Cf. olde worlde adj.


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However, that's just the modern usage of "olde." The OED entry for "old" tells a different story. There are examples in the 15th and 16th centuries of people using "olde" as a noun to refer to old people (e.g. "This olde hath ouerthrowe me and slayn me with hire ax."). And as early as the 13th century, "olde" pops up as an adjective. It may not be common, but it's not unheard of, which isn't surprising given that English spelling has only recently been standardized.

Source: http://io9.com/ye-olde-is-fake-old-english-and-youre-mispronouncing-1679780566

 

[wwjd_kilden]

I say unto ye, I am most grateful that ye doest not speak in this manner in this day and time

 

[santuzza]

Methinks Didymos hath way too much time on his hands.

 

[didymos]

Methinks Didymos hath way too much time on his hands.

.........

 

[p_rehbein]

Thanks, that's a mental image I didn't need..........sigh.......

 

[Miri]

Good folks, I'm sitteth eating lunch at my place of work filled
with much mirth as I readeth all thine comments.

I almost crieth with merriment!

 

[Miri]

I thank thee kind maiden, thou hast humbled mine heart with words undeserving

Did thou manage to acquireth a bit of Robin Hood in here my lord.

 

[wwjd_kilden]

This thread reminds me of Pirates of the Caribbean

Well you may tell the captain that I am disinclined to acquiesce to his request.

 

[Reborn]

Behold, when tele-visions of turkey thighs come upon thee, and the multitudes gather to give thanks in the west, lift up your heads, for your four day weekend draweth nigh.

 

[Miri]

Behold, when tele-visions of turkey thighs come upon thee, and the multitudes gather to give thanks in the west, lift up your heads, for your four day weekend draweth nigh.

Behold you doth refer to micklemass I do believeth.

I doubleth TV had been enthroned in the residences of King James though.
Much mirth and joyousness wouldeth been sought througheth other festivities
at the Yuletide season.

 

[santuzza]

How are thou planning to maketh merry this coming festival day of giving thanks to our Lord? Wilt thou preparest a fowl? Wilt thou maketh a casserole of beans?

Or wilt thou sitteth in front of thy imaging window watching a game of pig skin?

 

[santuzza]

Methinks I killed thy thread...

 

[Miri]

Alas poor Yorrick, I knoweth him well.


Behold, the mid week merriment have cometh to
an end but the weekend fast approacheth.

 

[Donkeyfish07]

Didst thou eateth too much turkey? Rejoice, for thou shalt sleep good tonight. But bewareth, for when the morrow cometh.....ye shalt taketh a huge democrap and dropeth large Obamanations in thy toilet

 

[missy2014]

Thou admireth avocados! Thou findeth upon quest of a fore mentioned avocado tree Galaxy girl talketh of , gallop or other more adequate means I shall embark upon, galaxys girls tree at once! onward modern air bound thingy ma gig

 

[tanakh]

Hi I don't know if this will work, but I thought we could try
a thread where only "King James Version" English can be used


So jump in at any time and practice those thees, thous and thys!
Assuming auto correct doesn't keep trying to correct it.

Behold I didth speakest likewise before time to Sirk a jovial fellow. Verily I speakest unto him my musings and sentiments that vex my soul sorely regarding this manner of speech. I have visions of being taken hither to a mad house
if perchance I persist in speaking thus.

 

[didymos]

There shall in that time be rumors of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia-work base, that has an attachment.

At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock...


[video=youtube;QqaQ_Bhgmrc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqaQ_Bhgmrc[/video]

 

[Miri]

Somehow the accent spoileth it.

 

[Miri]

The eve of Christmas fasteth approacheth. Hast thou all
been good little girls and boys ?

 

[wwjd_kilden]

Yon other noble thread hath causeth me to think upon this tread and I have therefore brought it back to the light of day