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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
Date: 24 Dec 2024 19:34:00 GMT
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On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 15:14:06 +0100, D wrote:


> 
> On Tue, 24 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 22:14:29 +0100, D wrote:
>>
>>> Anecdotally, I heard a story that once my grandfather visited sweden,
>>> from iceland. And for some reason he and my mother were visiting the
>>> country side in the north where they have a very strange dialect.
>>> Apparently he could speak with an old man there in icelandic, and the
>>> old man could speak this very rare dialect and they would understand
>>> each other.
>>
>> Translators tend to get into cat fights over their versions. One of the
>> Icelanders alleged only they could accurately translate Old Norse since
>> they were still speaking it.
> 
> I do not agree. I agree it is close, but I find it improbable that
> nothing has changed for a thousand years. They did have a nationalist
> revival where I think purged some foreign words and tried to move it
> back a bit.

I took it with a grain of salt. It's a different time frame but  while 
Quebec French may be closer to 17th century French than the current 
Parisian version it hasn't been preserved in amber. 

https://www.sequentia.org/recordings/recording23.html

Bagby tried for the most accurate reproductions of medieval music possible 
and iirc Sequentia spent a few months in Iceland working on the material,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLmzPKPcKmc