J. Alan Henning
Fun exercise! A blog post written in nearly a dozen different snapshots of English.
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english #English #philology #linguistics
How far back in time can you understand English?

An experiment in language change

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Feb 22 at 5:53pmWeb
Show threadIrinaFeb 22
@jalanhenning I made it all the way back to 1000, but being able to read Dutch, Frisian and German helped a lot!