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word of the day:
ymbscryd.
pronounced -- almost certainly -- ÜMB-scrüd, i.e., EEMB-screed, only round those ees; get your mouth ready to say oo and then say ee instead, without moving your lips.
[have just had bizarre mental soundtrack moment of lauren bacall saying you know how to make a u-umlaut, don't you? you just pucker up your lips and go "eee." definitely didn't need that.]
it seems to mean "covered" or "clothed," as in the sentence ac seo godcundnys is ymbscryd mid þære menniscnysse swa þæt ðær nys naðor gemencgednys ne todal, which -- as near as i can make out -- means "but the divine being is garbed with the human-ness so that no man can distinguish," i.e., Christ is the human incarnation of God and he looks just like a regular person, no mortal can tell he's divine just by looking at him. (does that sound like something aelfric's christmas homily should say?)
but it should, if there were any justice in the world, mean "well and truly fucked (in the figurative sense)." just look at it. and look at how it sounds. i'm-screwed, it says. a whole adjective, just for that. (beo hit so, amen.)
pronounced -- almost certainly -- ÜMB-scrüd, i.e., EEMB-screed, only round those ees; get your mouth ready to say oo and then say ee instead, without moving your lips.
[have just had bizarre mental soundtrack moment of lauren bacall saying you know how to make a u-umlaut, don't you? you just pucker up your lips and go "eee." definitely didn't need that.]
it seems to mean "covered" or "clothed," as in the sentence ac seo godcundnys is ymbscryd mid þære menniscnysse swa þæt ðær nys naðor gemencgednys ne todal, which -- as near as i can make out -- means "but the divine being is garbed with the human-ness so that no man can distinguish," i.e., Christ is the human incarnation of God and he looks just like a regular person, no mortal can tell he's divine just by looking at him. (does that sound like something aelfric's christmas homily should say?)
but it should, if there were any justice in the world, mean "well and truly fucked (in the figurative sense)." just look at it. and look at how it sounds. i'm-screwed, it says. a whole adjective, just for that. (beo hit so, amen.)
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Have I pimped my OE verse translation of the Trek-TOS ep "Devil in the Dark" (http://www.geocities.com/ellen_fremedon/Deofole.html) to you, btw?
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