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hemial
01-16-2006, 07:06 AM
Good day to all of you.

As a new member I would first like to express my appreciation to the fact that someone put up the Literature Network Forums. Finally I do have some more people to talk about literature than "just" my son.

Though from Germany, I love writing English poems and lyrics for songs. To my opinion, the English language offers much more to a writer than the German language does. I love the English language on the whole, however, I like it's sound and the "old" English.

When it comes to the latter, please feel free to read my newly added poems "Loch Tay" and "Thou shalst be my destiny".

And right now we are at the point where I do have to ask you: is it "shalt" or is it "shalst"? In one of all these posts here I read a sentence that contained the words "thou shalt" - in my dictionary it is "shalst". Is "shalt" a typo or are there differences? Are both versions valid?

Please help me out. Thanks.

I hope I will have a good time here. Just give me a little time to go through the forum and all your poems. I will surely comment some of them.

Greetings.

Nightshade
01-16-2006, 07:28 AM
okay according to my penguin and oxford dictionary its Shalt
Which is:

v(erb) archaic second prson singular. present tense of Shall
I can only find referance to Shalt anywhere.
:D
Welcome :wave:

emily655321
01-16-2006, 09:48 AM
I've only ever heard the word "shalt." However, I have no knowledge of true Old English (post-Saxon, pre-Norman), so I suppose it's possible that the word evolved from "shalst" into "shalt."


Welcome to the Forum, hemial! :wave:

hemial
01-16-2006, 10:24 AM
Looks like I had to revise my poem ...

Thanks for your welcoming me.

Greetings.

Koa
01-16-2006, 02:13 PM
I don't have anything to add but welcome, it seems you're going to bring interesting inputs to this place so post loads :nod: :D

Anon22
01-16-2006, 04:59 PM
Welcome Hemial, hope you have fun... not really much to say ^_^

Stanislaw
01-16-2006, 05:16 PM
Welcome, a modern old-english author! 'tis indeed pretty awesome! :D