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.

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

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How far back in time can you understand English?

An experiment in language change

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@yogthos 1200 I had to work hard at it. 1100 I think I got the gist? 1000 was incomprehensible.
@akamran I started hitting a wall at 1200, I could make out words, but I was guessing overall meaning at that point