(0812) Morning again, all. (0827)
5. Mr. Gobby’s twofer
4. DAD at 1279
a) VPNs in France are the next on the agenda. Banning social media for those under 15: “Yes, VPNs exist, but if this legislation allows me to protect a very large majority of children, we will continue.”
b) This behavour is on the rise in France – mass rapes by teenagers in the basements of blocks of flats.
c) Image is more important than violence ! “We are not in a cutthroat France or a Clockwork Orange…”: Laurent Nuñez, Minister of the Interior, acknowledges a “rise in violence”….
d) Here is one group who will not be in my Will. In an internal document dated December 13, exclusively revealed by L’Incorrect, the APF France Handicap association calls on its members to maintain no ties with parties described as “far-right”…..
3. Toodles at 1280
A bit of light relief.
“Old English” is a misnomer. It should really be called Insular West Germanic. It doesn’t become English until it forms a creole with Norman French.
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JH: Yes.
As usual you don’t know what you’re talking about. It’s called Old English because its the earliest recorded form of the English language. The Modern English we speak today evolved from Middle English – of writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer. My ancestors would confer in the West Saxon dialect of Old English: the vernacular for over 700 years. Some of it survived into the 19th Century in rural areas.
https://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/old-english
Well isn’t this fun!