A couple comments: I'm positive that the sound ash makes is, well, [æ], as mentioned. Also I'm not really sure what you're getting at with þ/ð; as far as I know, OE uses the letters interchangeably for IPA [θ] and [ð], which like the rest of the fricatives have totally predictable allophony -- you get the voiced one between two voiced sounds, voiceless elsewhere.
I've only seen the acute accent used to indicate unpredictable (i.e., non-initial) stress; is that what you meant?
Also, OE word order is, uh, really not the same as ModE -- it is verb-second, like most of the rest of Germanic, and not straight SVO like ModE. So you definitely can't do word-for-word translation.
I'm not really a big fan of the online translator method for coming up with translations. I can't get the site you linked to load, but even if it does give you the full paradigms, I don't think that would help without knowing, say, what cases certain verbs require, or the word order. But, hey, it's at least as good as what the show comes up with, from what I can understand of it.
(I am teaching myself OE, very slowly, but I know way too much about linguistics anyway.)
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A couple comments: I'm positive that the sound ash makes is, well, [æ], as mentioned. Also I'm not really sure what you're getting at with þ/ð; as far as I know, OE uses the letters interchangeably for IPA [θ] and [ð], which like the rest of the fricatives have totally predictable allophony -- you get the voiced one between two voiced sounds, voiceless elsewhere.
I've only seen the acute accent used to indicate unpredictable (i.e., non-initial) stress; is that what you meant?
Also, OE word order is, uh, really not the same as ModE -- it is verb-second, like most of the rest of Germanic, and not straight SVO like ModE. So you definitely can't do word-for-word translation.
I'm not really a big fan of the online translator method for coming up with translations. I can't get the site you linked to load, but even if it does give you the full paradigms, I don't think that would help without knowing, say, what cases certain verbs require, or the word order. But, hey, it's at least as good as what the show comes up with, from what I can understand of it.
(I am teaching myself OE, very slowly, but I know way too much about linguistics anyway.)