Posted by Phil M on September 19, 2003 at 03:39:29:
In Reply to: Re: NON-WORD "en" (was: #8357) posted by stmx3 on September 18, 2003 at 06:12:49:
: Didn't I read that "Beowulf" was used as a source for words? If so, many words no longer in used are probably introduced.
However contrary to my prior message this may sound, if they are valid words, leave 'em in. Adds flavour. Words that are not used these days (but are valid) should be kept in. If they aren't liked by the punters they will die off.
For "En" => "In", we're really looking at taking a word that /should have been/ something else. Technically, of course, if the word "en" had never been in the pool of words, to be cosen from randomly, then some (or all) of the rest of the words chosen for every poem would have been different for the same (random) choice made at the time, but that complicates matters no end, so I say we just change all living examples to adopt their English personae...