Comments on: Lookest West & Thou Shalt See Cosmic Rays Emitted by Yon Distant Supernova http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/06/29/lookest-west-thou-shalt-see-cosmic-rays-emitted-by-yon-distant-supernova/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Jennifer http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/06/29/lookest-west-thou-shalt-see-cosmic-rays-emitted-by-yon-distant-supernova/#comment-33530 Jennifer Wed, 04 Jul 2012 22:02:33 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=38099#comment-33530 Old English is unintelligible to speakers of modern English unless they've studied it, or German. Shakespearean, 1500's English, is technically modern English. Your attempt at it gets the point across. I wouldn't try to make it any more accurate or you'd likely make it difficult to understand. Old English is unintelligible to speakers of modern English unless they’ve studied it, or German. Shakespearean, 1500′s English, is technically modern English. Your attempt at it gets the point across. I wouldn’t try to make it any more accurate or you’d likely make it difficult to understand.

]]> By: Kathleen Bartholomew http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/06/29/lookest-west-thou-shalt-see-cosmic-rays-emitted-by-yon-distant-supernova/#comment-33529 Kathleen Bartholomew Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:45:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=38099#comment-33529 Point of grammar: you've used the correct antique pronoun (thou, informal singular and plural second person address) but the wrong verb ending on "look". As a directive, "look" should be used as simply 'look" - just like modern English. The antique verb ending would only be used if the sentence read: Thou lookest west and sees ... Or you could put it: If thou lookest west, thou shalt see ... Just a bit of linguistic nit-picking. Point of grammar: you’ve used the correct antique pronoun (thou, informal singular and plural second person address) but the wrong verb ending on “look”. As a directive, “look” should be used as simply ‘look” – just like modern English. The antique verb ending would only be used if the sentence read: Thou lookest west and sees …

Or you could put it: If thou lookest west, thou shalt see …

Just a bit of linguistic nit-picking.

]]> By: fintin http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/06/29/lookest-west-thou-shalt-see-cosmic-rays-emitted-by-yon-distant-supernova/#comment-33528 fintin Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:06:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=38099#comment-33528 It's so fascinating to hear the opinions and interpretations of such phenomena occurring from back then compared to our current knowledge of such things. It’s so fascinating to hear the opinions and interpretations of such phenomena occurring from back then compared to our current knowledge of such things.

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