It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post.

[yogthos@social.marxist.network]

It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post. Read it and notice where you start to struggle. Notice where you give up entirely.

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english

#language #english

[david@theblower.au]

@yogthos @valhalla I made it to the end of 1300, but beyond that, I could decipher no more.

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@david @yogthos yeah, beyond that I recognized a few words, but some of those I recognized from the time when I played a medieval nun on the internet :D

(I hand copied a text in Old English of which I had read a translation, so I had a vague idea of what was happening, but I couldn't exactly understand what I was copying in each individual sentence)