by jd4george
I'll try to post a "translatation" on Monday, for those who might be interested. The words are all speciality slang that come from before 1700.
ah come on you know you made it up!
Very Robers Burnes. Is that the name? Damn, I do not know the classics. The one with the poem about the mouse nest in the ladys hat at church. No, the one with the mouse nest in the field and the ladys hat at church.
hmm
I think you should do a series. This was very cool. I don't want the translation. I just wanna hear it for the hearing. :)
come on, you can spare it, loan me a couple dozen points of your IQ :D
as much as I enjoy your poetry, your history lessons are equally as enjoyable
...then I highly recommend that you add a book to your reference library:
"Wicked Words" (A Treasury of Curses, Insults, Put-Downs, and Other Formerly Unprintable Terms from Anglo-Saxon Times to the Present) by Hugh Rawson (c. 1989) and published by Crown Publishers, Inc. of New York.
It is well worth the cover price of $24.95, assuming it's still in print!
English that's barely recognizable today, though if you read it a few times the meanings begin to emerge.