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I love this.
Huh?Fuck ICE!
I assumed it must have been ICE who arrested him...Huh?
God forbid women do anything
For you English nerds.
In 2000 a blogger goes to B&B. And senses something odd ..
But this is not a mystery tale. It is a history of English. Each passage is written in the English of 100 years previously. All are English. How far back until you can't understand?
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How far back in time can you understand English?
An experiment in language changewww.deadlanguagesociety.com
1900 and 1800 easy. By 1700 getting archaic but still recognizably English. 1600, I read enough Shakespeare to be familiar with Elizabethan English. 1500 is late Middle English. Took concentration but managed. Got most of 1400, general gist of 1300. By 1200 forget it. Closer to Old than Middle English. Maybe a German speaker would understand better since Old English derived from Saxon.
How's your English?
I made it to the 1400's......but I was arrested, tried and then drawn and quartered for speaking a foreign language no one had ever heard of in the 1300s.....That was awesome!
For you English nerds.
In 2000 a blogger goes to B&B. And senses something odd ..
But this is not a mystery tale. It is a history of English. Each passage is written in the English of 100 years previously. All are English. How far back until you can't understand?
![]()
How far back in time can you understand English?
An experiment in language changewww.deadlanguagesociety.com
1900 and 1800 easy. By 1700 getting archaic but still recognizably English. 1600, I read enough Shakespeare to be familiar with Elizabethan English. 1500 is late Middle English. Took concentration but managed. Got most of 1400, general gist of 1300. By 1200 forget it. Closer to Old than Middle English. Maybe a German speaker would understand better since Old English derived from Saxon.
How's your English?

I made it to the 1400's......but I was arrested, tried and then drawn and quartered for speaking a foreign language no one had ever heard of in the 1300s.....
I knew they were hollerin' something but I couldn't understand the words.......drawn and quartered, burned at the stake, it all sounded like a mouthful of marbles to me......."He's a witch! BURN HIM!"
