• Evidence of Cannibalism Found at Jamestown Site
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i just wanted to know why he was writing like that, you don't all have to rate me dumb :(
Aparrently my earliest recorded ancestor went to jamestown as one of the early dutch or english settlers i think. I hope he didn't eat people.
It would be kinda cool to have a recorded ancestor who ate someone.
[QUOTE=Atlascore;40503085]Why was this rated dumb? Literacy rates back then were practically 0-2% in most places.[/QUOTE] Yeah, and the person that was able to [b]write[/b] words and [b]comprehensible[/b] sentences was considered a literate. The genius pointed out that people couldn't read and write and his fucking evidence was a piece of text that was [b]written[/b] by a person.
[QUOTE=Stormcharger;40502667]It would be kinda cool to have a recorded ancestor who ate someone.[/QUOTE] You are what you eat :v:
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;40491217]So, what he just crazy or was this the style of writing at the time?[/QUOTE] [quote=Old English]“thatt notheinge was Spared to mainteyne Lyfe and to doe those things which seame incredible, as to digge upp deade corpes outt of graves and to eate them.”[/quote] [quote=Modern Spelling]That nothing was spared to maintain life and to do those things which seem incredible, as to dig up dead corpses out of graves and to eat them.[/quote] [editline]2nd May 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Hidole555;40491329]English wasn't completely orthographized in the early 1600's. It would be over 100 years before the way we typically spell our words would come into practice.[/QUOTE] Instead at that time we had a combination of the english alphabet and runic alphabet, eg. Ye is actually pronounced The, its that Y was used by printers to show the "Thorn" runic character, which made the Th sound
[QUOTE=viperfan7;40507943][editline]2nd May 2013[/editline] Instead at that time we had a combination of the english alphabet and runic alphabet, eg. Ye is actually pronounced The, its that Y was used by printers to show the "Thorn" runic character, which made the Th sound[/QUOTE] You are thinking way way way too far back. The runic alphabet was disused after Old English evolved into Middle English in the 1100s. What is written here is an early form of modern English. Look up Old English and Middle English. They are not understandable to a modern English speaker.
[quote]“thatt notheinge was Spared to mainteyne Lyfe and to doe those things which seame incredible, as to digge upp deade corpes outt of graves and to eate them.”[/quote] lik if u cry evertim
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