Found one more instance of "moine" in the text where it actually means "half". But that wouldn't really make sense here

Usually when adults get wind of this stuff, the meme is dead and they move on to something else. But the teachers at the kids' schools say it, and some of them dressed up as 6s and 7s for Halloween. Someone in the neighbourhood carved a 6 7 into a pumpkin. Somehow this only makes it more popular

The fun thing about this scribe is that they're probably Greek, fluent in French (but not perfectly), and absolutely terrible at Latin!

Also now I'm wondering about the presence of mummers in Jerusalem and Cyprus, I never thought about that before

Hmm, maybe? Here's the manuscript (this scribe sometimes draws a line or an arch to represent a missing E, as in "moiñs" here)

Oui ce sont les assises de Jérusalem, mais seulement un des manuscrits. Il y en a deux mais l'autre omet "des moines". Bizarre!

The one manuscript definitely has "des moines" there. The other one of the same text says "Bien saches que dou dymenche dou caren pernant iusque a .viii. iours apres pasque..."

The whole thing is "Bien saches que des le dimanche de careme prenant des moines en iusques a VIII iors apres la pasque, ne doit ni ne peut nus hons espouser, ni es iors des grans litanies, ni en les iors des preeres, ni en les III semaines devant la feste de saint johan baptiste" (etc etc)

I know this is just a translation of Gratian (part 2, case 33 question 4, ch. 10), but there's nothing about monks there. The Latin is even included here in the previous chapter but it doesn't say "monks" or "at least". So I have no idea

Unfortunately "less" or "least" is usually spelled "mains" or "moins", and "at least" is usually "au mains/moins." Usually I'll just go with "ehh, it's Old French, there are no rules" but I don't know...do monks have something to do with Lent that I'm not aware of?

The scribe mentions "brothers" sometimes but never uses the word "moine" anywhere else. The next bit is "en iusques a viii iors apres la pasque," or until the eighth day after Easter.

I think maybe "des moines" means "at least"? So marriages can't take place until at least 8 days after Easter

But of course they called it GlaukoSky because they didn't have a word for blue

I feel like a lot of my conversations with the kids lately are about how to talk to normies. I think it's good advice, and it's what my parents also taught me, but why do my kids have to be the ones to change? Oh, other people don't like stuff they like? Well maybe those people are the weird ones