"Shaft" in Chaucerian English

October 25, 2005 6:12 AM

Wha be tha blake prevy lawe
That bene wantoun too alle tha feres?
SHAFT!
Ya damne righte!

(Obligatory secondary links).
posted by swift (22 comments total)

Hic est unus malus mater...

Claude oram!

Ero vocebam Shaft.
posted by The White Hat at 6:16 AM on October 25, 2005

badde mooder-swyver!

heheheh.
posted by mds35 at 6:28 AM on October 25, 2005

No one understands him but his woman.
posted by Pollomacho at 6:31 AM on October 25, 2005

hwa se heolstorhof bisgu?

fyi
posted by HuronBob at 6:37 AM on October 25, 2005

Кто всегда выбивает десять из десяти?
Не вопрос!
Шафт!

Кто выстоит в самой страшной заварухе
и не знает, что такое страх?
Шафт!

Кто никогда не бросит в беде
и беспощаден к злодеям?
Конечно Шафт!
posted by languagehat at 6:41 AM on October 25, 2005

Isn't this what Roger Waters was saying at the end of Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict?
posted by afroblanca at 6:41 AM on October 25, 2005

Just how my daddy used to put it, down home, all them years ago...
posted by alumshubby at 6:42 AM on October 25, 2005

Oh, and

DaHjaj ghaH QaQ jaj Daq Hegh -- Shaft!
posted by alumshubby at 6:45 AM on October 25, 2005

MetaFilter: badde mooder-swyver!
posted by AspectRatio at 6:45 AM on October 25, 2005

Шафт!
posted by zsazsa at 6:46 AM on October 25, 2005

[quietly hates Chaucer]
posted by NinjaPirate at 6:47 AM on October 25, 2005

afroblanca: You missed the word 'Together' in your song title. It's "...Gathered Together in a Cave..."
posted by Goofyy at 7:08 AM on October 25, 2005

OK, but Beowulf could still kick his ass.
posted by PlusDistance at 7:16 AM on October 25, 2005

I'm gonna go with: meh.
posted by jonson at 7:21 AM on October 25, 2005

How I hate the meh.
posted by swift at 7:32 AM on October 25, 2005

My best friend Pete did much of a Shaft Shakespeare with tha iambic. I miss that guy.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 8:11 AM on October 25, 2005

Language differences are funny
 
posted by spock at 8:34 AM on October 25, 2005

(via robotwisdom, btw)
posted by swift at 8:37 AM on October 25, 2005

Dude....he did "Freebird" too.

And this foule ye conna chaunge.
Tha Lorde konne, I conna chaunge.
posted by dnash at 8:55 AM on October 25, 2005

Putting this on my Chaucer class wiki page right now. Thanks for this!
posted by fillsthepews at 12:59 PM on October 25, 2005

Excellent. I love Chaucer. It'd be interesting to retell Shaft as one of the Canterbury tales.
posted by Smedleyman at 2:22 PM on October 25, 2005

How do you say "Right On!" in olde English?
posted by Lynsey at 11:14 AM on October 26, 2005