(January 17, 2016 at 10:07 am)Rhondazvous Wrote:(January 17, 2016 at 7:22 am)abaris Wrote: Since we were talking about medieval German and english. There are also a lot of words, not being in common use anymore. You know their meaning, but virtually nobody would use them. And one of them is "Pein", which, of course, translates to "pain" in english.
If I learned German, it would probably be textbook German. So I’d probably not run into any archaic German.
Then again, as a writer, I like using archaic English words such as “fortnight.”
Fortnight is archaic?
