tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33159158.post7320482869344417496..comments2024-02-25T20:07:56.114-06:00Comments on Mr. Verb: Hwæt?Mr. Verbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048931596146402872noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33159158.post-13603826385019454912013-11-09T03:37:52.524-06:002013-11-09T03:37:52.524-06:00Oh, very nice ... people should definitely look at...Oh, very nice ... people should definitely look at it.Joenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33159158.post-28520089573850916212013-11-08T11:12:43.272-06:002013-11-08T11:12:43.272-06:00Let me know what you think!Let me know what you think!Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10761144542929061874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33159158.post-43742751810285509662013-11-06T20:08:09.378-06:002013-11-06T20:08:09.378-06:00Cool, George, I figured we might hear from you. I ...Cool, George, I figured we might hear from you. I was curious about the full paper ... looking forward to reading it!Joenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33159158.post-4994804524786164262013-11-06T18:52:27.691-06:002013-11-06T18:52:27.691-06:00Thanks, Joe! I like to think it's not weird or...Thanks, Joe! I like to think it's not weird or crazy. Full disclosure: the research is really about <i>hwæt</i>-clauses more generally in Old English and Old Saxon; but Beowulf provides a nice opening to shoe-horn some historical linguistics into the media.<br /><br />If you're interested in the actual paper behind it, you can find it <a href="http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/george.walkden/papers.html" rel="nofollow">on my website</a> ("The status of Old English <i>hwæt</i>").Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10761144542929061874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33159158.post-76454554590172987772013-11-06T07:06:26.644-06:002013-11-06T07:06:26.644-06:00Yet for more than two centuries “hwæt” has been mi...<i>Yet for more than two centuries “hwæt” has been misrepresented as an attention-grabbing latter-day “yo!” </i><br /><br />Doesn't the writer mean the opposite of "latter-day" here?Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01492021197573048467noreply@blogger.com