After a week or so, I found I could make myself understood in Italy by speaking Latin with a Hollywood gangster accent. Almost always worked. But, insight into how English works may be more significant. English is Viking-talk with a Latin overlay.
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If you want to learn pre-Christian Germanic law, Anglo-Saxon or Icelandic could be helpful. And then you can read Beowulf. Ða com of more under misthleoþum Grendel gongan, Godes yrre bær; mynte se manscaða manna cynnes sumne besyrwan in sele þam hean.
10:40 PM - 15 Apr 2018
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