What’s the alcohol percentage of Olde English 800, rather than the 300 (or is it 3000?)
here
may lie a tale
Did you deliberately give this thread a misleading title so as to entice teetotal linguists to open it just so you could laugh at them?! :mad:
LOL -JomoMojo - I also expected a language question. Well, sorry rico776, but I can only suppose the drink in question is not sold here, although there is a brand of cider (OK “hard” cider if you will) named Olde Englishe (made by Gaymers, I think.)
So, does this means that the alcohol by volume content is not printed on labels in the U.S.?
Here the ABV must be be shown on the bottle: it is intended to make it easier for people to be clear about whether they are drinking a weak beer or a sort of blow-your-head-off-Orkney-Skullcrusher sort of thing, thereby being able to stick to chosen limits, and of course, not being able to claim that you "had no idea how strong it was, officer. "
And ich secge thussum ga than he gaeth, and ich secge thissum cum thanna cumth he, and ich secge thissum do this and he daeth.
RealityChuck, I don’t speak Old English to any braggable level, but shouldn’t ich be ic?
Perhaps in the context of the thread, it could be “Hic”?
In the USA, ABV on labels is frowned upon because the nannies (you know you I mean, the same people who want to ban tobacco use) fear that it would be used to help people get hammered if they wanted to.
“… so old that it belonged to an age when there were far more e’s around.”
– Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
Ah, thanks, Dogface. I think that is nicely funny - the Nannies in the U.K. wanted ABV to be stated clearly to assist people to manage and control and aware of what they are drinking, and in the U.S., then, the equivalent Nannies take the opposite view?
hahahahahaha - since they can’t both be right - one set of them (at least) is being silly. Oh dear, I forgot, the Nannies are always right - what a nice conundrum.
<Departs singing "show me the way to go home…>
Oddly, though, I think there is no requirement for the alchohol level to be shown in bars, (although Real Ale pubs often do it - I think because if someone wants to try one of the guest beers, well they might very well not want to drink some rocket fuel unknowingly. And yet - you’d have thought people drinking in bars are possibly at more risk of evilly driving home (boo) or finding themselves more inebriated than expected as they set off to walk home.
And I suppose this is all a bit of a hijack - so I’m sorry rico776
That’s how my Old English prof spelled it, though probably either is correct. I believe the original had a velar fricative in it.
http://www.cuttlefish.net/universalshamen/lyrics/bossdrum.html#boss5
LOL - we still don’t know about th is Olde English without even thinking of any other drugs!
Think you guys took this a little too far- just a college student who likes to get messed up on weekends, looking to see how much i’m puttin into me with my OE’s…
i think you guys should cut the language debate and grab a smooth, refreshing, intoxicating OLDE ENGLISH(so i lie about the description, i drink it to get trashed.) get out for once and have a drink instead of spending your nights arguing about a dead language…
My point was:
Be a little thoughtful of other people, and use a properly descriptive thread title.
Jomo Mojo- isn’t your name supposed to be Mojo Jojo from television? you couldn’t even type it in right- dylexia kickin in there buddy? Anyway, be thoughtful to me, don’t waste more time replying to what YOU deem appropriate. It seems to me that if you ask a college student, which i am, what olde english refers to it is beer, not an archaic (look, i’m in college AND i am intelligent enough to use the right vocab) language… so MY point is that if you open a thread and it isnt what you thought, feel free to leave, don’t lecture me on being thoughtful or using a proper description- it’s all relative to age and opinion, namely the latter
As to the original question, 8% ABV (see here).
Wrong, my name has been Jomo Mojo since 1981, long before that stupid cartoon ever was thought of. Haven’t you ever heard of Jomo Kenyatta, a great world leader? Or is all your learning devoted to getting drunk and watching TV?
Not everyone here is an alcohol-addled college kid, as you seem to imagine. We have grown-up serious intellectuals here who actually do discuss ancient languages more often than alcohol in GQ. The Mods would appreciate it if you use descriptive thread titles; that’s why they placed a sticky for everyone to read explaining that it’s more considerate of the readers. If you want to use this board, newbie, first learn how things are done here.
See what alcohol has done to us, people? We’re at each other’s throats!
Let’s all take a deep breath and step back. There, isn’t that better.
I have edited the thread title. rico776, in the future please try to choose more descriptive titles. I think I have mentioned this to you in the past, but we really do appreciate descriptive and detailed thread titles. It cuts down on the amount of time and bandwidth wasted by people who, for instance, don’t know and don’t want to know anything about Olde English malt liquor.
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