Christina DongowskiFeb 22

Super Fun für Sprach-Nerds, Weird Fiction-Fans und alle, die gerne neue Sachen lernen: Diese Geschichte wird jeden Absatz 100 Jahre älter (& gruseliger), am Schluss sind wir um 1.000 sprachlich angelangt. Bis wann könnt Ihr verstehen, was da steht? Danach erklärt ein Sprachhistoriker die Veränderungen, die ihr da rückwärts mitgemacht habt.

#linguistics #historyoflanguage #language #literature #learning

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

How far back in time can you understand English?

An experiment in language change

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@Tinido

Keep in mind there was no such thing as standard written English well understood across the whole country until relatively recently; spoken English even less so.

Even today, someone in rural Northumberland would not necessarily clearly understand every word spoken by somebody from rural Devon.

Personally, as a reasonably well educated native speaker of English, most (>95%) of Shakespeare is clear to me.

Chaucer (late 14th/early 15th C) starts to be a struggle.

Feb 22 at 2:08pmWeb