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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.

deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-…

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How far back in time can you understand English?

An experiment in language change
Colin Gorrie (Dead Language Society)
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David Megginson
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Fun post. I notice the dialect shifts to West Saxon near the end.
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David de Groot
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@valhalla I made it to the end of 1300, but beyond that, I could decipher no more.
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@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)

@David de Groot @Yogthos

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