This WWII propaganda poster urged carpooling not to save gas, but to save wear and tear on tires. Rubber was in short supply, and was needed for the military. Link -via Reddit
...and blogs that don't know to remove a period from the end of a URL are a little frustrating. Here's the link sans period: http://intel.planetbattlefield.gamespy.com/sigbig.jpg
One of my favorite WWII posters, I photoshopped it for what was once my favorite multiplayer game, Battlefield 1942: http://intel.planetbattlefield.gamespy.com/sigbig.jpg. "F7 F5" in the game has your character say "hop in", something you should tell other nearby players if the vehicle you're driving has room.
Well, Hitler (and his army) rode along in GM-trucks (GM owned Opel from 1929) so the little bit of rubber-saving probably doenst amount to much: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/07/INGPHNCLHH1.DTL
Intriguing yet unconvincing. There is no clear break between "old English" and middle English in the historical record. There are Scandinavian influences, yes, but if you look closely to the geolinguistic map of England, most Scandinavian influences are regional and are centered on areas with historically Nordic settlements. Yes, the Norsemen may have influenced the development of English, but to say that modern English is just Norse with some old English is bit of a stretch.
This interests me as I am currently learning Swedish and I have found it to be the easiest language I have ever tried: mainly down to the very similar grammar.
As a northern englishman, (Yorkshire), taking a job in Reykjavik, Iceland, in the early eighties, I was delighted to find that so many northern words, dismissed by my teachers as 'dialect' or 'slang', were in fact old norse, retained, unchanged, for a thousand years, never accepted as 'proper' english by southerners.
I don't agree with the premise that old english simply died out. And if anybody wants a definitive tome on "Old English Deverbal Substantives, Derived by Means of a Zero Morpheme", just let me know.
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I don't agree with the premise that old english simply died out.
And if anybody wants a definitive tome on "Old English Deverbal Substantives, Derived by Means of a Zero Morpheme", just let me know.