"Augmented Vocality: Recomposing the Sounds of Early Irish and Old Norse"

[Duncan Head]

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/aug/12/norse-code-project-aims-to-decipher-sound-of-old-languages

[Jim Webster]

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/aug/12/norse-code-project-aims-to-decipher-sound-of-old-languages

It is interesting but I'm intrigued at how they'll manage to do it.

[Imperial Dave]

me too....trying not to sound too sceptical....

[Erpingham]

I think you are approaching it from too historical a view.  This is a cultural project.  A lot of the straight historical archaeological stuff is already known, as the article says, but no-one has turned it into popularly accessible performance.  It might be interesting to compare "straight" reconstructions with whatever "artistic" interpretations it generates.

[Jim Webster]

I think you are approaching it from too historical a view.  This is a cultural project.  A lot of the straight historical archaeological stuff is already known, as the article says, but no-one has turned it into popularly accessible performance.  It might be interesting to compare "straight" reconstructions with whatever "artistic" interpretations it generates.

I'm offended, it's cultural appropriation, I demand they stop making a mockery of my culture



oh yes, 

[Erpingham]

I thought you were Cumbrian, which is a form of North British? 

[Jim Webster]

I thought you were Cumbrian, which is a form of North British?

Not really, most of our dialect words are probably Norse. There isn't much of the Cymri left in Cumbria