Old Polish (geoffreycaveney's theory)

[geoffreycaveney]

Speaking of Ventris, another minor difference is that he was less obsessed with four-letter words.

When an author very carefully and deliberately prefaces the presentation of obscene or profane language in a text with a long and detailed cautionary advisory warning note to readers, then to quote only the obscene language, and omit the prefatory cautionary advisory note to readers, is a textbook definition of a deliberately misleading quotation out of context. In this case it is the person who posts the misleading quotation out of context, rather than the original author, who is actually the one who is demonstrating an obsession with the obscene language.

For the record, here is the cautionary advisory note that actually preceded the obscene language that Marco quoted entirely out of context from my earlier post:

"CAUTION: Readers should be advised in advance that my reading of the first three lines of this paragraph has revealed that this is a rather bawdy medieval Silesian / Old Polish verse (Silesian is a southern dialect of Polish along the Czech border). It contains the obscene language and vocabulary that one would expect in a bawdy verse. Naturally, to present an accurate reading and interpretation of the language and content of the text as I have analyzed it, it is necessary to include the obscene Silesian / Polish words and their most accurate colloquial English translations that preserve the spirit of the original text as I read and interpret it, without censoring the text or using euphemistic or neutral scientific biological translations of the words that do not convey the real idiomatic sense and meaning of the original. I hope that readers and members of this forum understand that the interpretation I present below is my honest best reading of the ms text according to my West Slavic theory of the script, and not by any means an attempt to produce an obscene interpretation of the text for its own sake."

Geoffrey