milkman52879 (August 18, 2008 at 5:51 am)

i love that woman

squidb8 (August 15, 2008 at 5:59 pm)

Thanks Adeykins Yes Beowulf was written in OE, but as you pointed out OE was the formative period. Toward the end of that period people of the of different regions may be saying the same thing might pronounce different, or spell it differently. So english was more of a hodge podge language, still finding an identity.

squidb8 (August 15, 2008 at 5:43 pm)

You know I noticed after I posted that I didn't answer your question. I've noticed over the years that we Americans, the only group I have experience observing, tend to put the important items first and peripherals later. The important item is the day, the month is just the cycle of time in which the day of importance is attached to.

36princess63 (August 15, 2008 at 5:41 pm)

I love this song it is 1 of my favorite!

squidb8 (August 15, 2008 at 5:37 pm)

Actually I use different ways of expressing date depending upon the situation. I use MM/DD/YY(YY), YY/MM/DD, and DD/MMM/YY. It all depends on the person, and how the entity files their paper work.

Kingery4President (August 14, 2008 at 11:46 pm)

Good Song

adeykins (August 14, 2008 at 8:32 pm)

but I must admit, its good that you know a little about your adopted language! lol!

adeykins (August 14, 2008 at 8:31 pm)

squid some good points English started to develop before the Norman Conquest,a mix of Latin & Germanic dialect as the Saxons invaded then settled in the south,the Viking/Norse invasion in the north, English developed in a mix of Latin/Scando Germanic dialect long before Tyndale, the first recorded English was an epic poem Beowulf before the 10th century about a Scandinavian warrior in roughly 6th century so Old English was written well before Tyndale, that was the period of early middle English

0123goy456alex678 (August 14, 2008 at 3:13 pm)

THIS SONG ROCKS

squidb8 (August 13, 2008 at 4:05 am)

Well our language will change. For the most part our language was held in place because the people with the money,were of european descent, mostly english. They felt more akin with europe and England, and people to speak a dialect of english.Heck English wasn't english until the publishing of the tyndale bible, so put away your nationalistic pride. You are not your country, your country is you.