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.
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How far back in time can you understand English?
An experiment in language changeColin Gorrie (Dead Language Society)
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in reply to David de Groot • •@David de Groot @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)
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in reply to David de Groot • • •1100 we had no chance.
I often found I could go back a century after attempting the next, and figure out what things meant.