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<blockquote data-quote="Old Fezziwig" data-source="post: 755241" data-attributes="member: 59">How archaic are you looking for?&nbsp; I mean, are we talking Elizabethan English, Middle English, Old English?&nbsp; Let me know and I'll try and throw you at least some sources, but the big ones should be obvious — you want to check out Shakespeare for the Elizabethan, Chaucer for the Middle, and for the Old, I'd recommend actually staying away from Old English for the most part.&nbsp; Don't get me wrong, it's cool as hell, but it's not all that similar to Modern English.&nbsp; Markedly different words (a lot of them not recognizable), declensions, more tenses of verbs, subjunctive mood — it's damn near another language. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; For someone who's selfconsciously archaic, look at Spenser — despite the fact that his stuff looks like Middle English, he's a contemporary of Shakespeare.Best,tKL</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Old Fezziwig, post: 755241, member: 59"] How archaic are you looking for? I mean, are we talking Elizabethan English, Middle English, Old English? Let me know and I'll try and throw you at least some sources, but the big ones should be obvious — you want to check out Shakespeare for the Elizabethan, Chaucer for the Middle, and for the Old, I'd recommend actually staying away from Old English for the most part. Don't get me wrong, it's cool as hell, but it's not all that similar to Modern English. Markedly different words (a lot of them not recognizable), declensions, more tenses of verbs, subjunctive mood — it's damn near another language. :) For someone who's selfconsciously archaic, look at Spenser — despite the fact that his stuff looks like Middle English, he's a contemporary of Shakespeare. Best, tKL [/QUOTE]

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