Senċeþ

[cosmolinguist]

"Holly ... is nfbvhksdm a word in Old English?"

I looked up from my book. "Is what a word?"

" 'Sencheth'!" she said. (I'm just writing it how it sounds. It wouldn't be spelled that way if it were an Old English word. But I'll get to that in a minute.) Which I considered about as incomprehensible as what she'd said the first time.

"Uh ... it's not one that I know. But I don't know a lot of Old English words," I reminded her. "Why?"

This part is fuzzy. Maybe Sarah could explain it better. Apparently, these two syllables just appeared in her head and she wants to know how they got there. So she said, "You should ask Janet!"

Much as I like random silliness and much as I think my Old English professor likes random silliness, I may tell her "Sarah says I have to ask you if 'sencheth' is a word in Old English, because she thought of it and wants to know if it's real."

So I asked Sarah to write down the word, so I won't forget. And the first time she wrote sencheth but we then put it in proper (ha) Old English, where they don't have 'ch' or 'th' but spell those sounds other ways, so it says senċeþ.

By the way, when I thought she was coming over here to terrorize me, she actually ended up rubbing my neck and shoulders, which makes her the coolest roommate ever.

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[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Interesting. Were either of you sniffing glue at any point before this conversation? Ha ha. Kidding. Kidding.

[cosmolinguist]

As I like to say, one of the things I like most about my friends is that they're as strange sober as other people are when under the influence of some vile substance. (But harmlessly strange, which is the good part.)