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[–] Keld@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ask your local priest?

Tunproest is obviously [locality] priest. Tun is an area (Probably "town"?) and preost is still basically how they say priest in Danish and Norwegian.
Thone is just thine which is your.
And axa is just ask.

[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So modern day ask -> axe is appropriate English!?

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

AAVE was always valid English regardless of whether it can trace any specific pronunciation to the anglo saxons.

Even if "aks" had been a totally new construction you couldn't find in Chaucer, it would sinply be a case of metathesis. And if you're going to complain about a dialect doing metathesis then I better not hear you say wasp instead of væps

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

we should all speak proto-indoeuropean instead of all these johnny come lately vernaculars

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

bench appearo in shamblez