Richard ElwesFeb 22

This is great fun - a story by Colin Gorrie which starts out written in contemporary English, then in the language of 1900, then 1800, 1700, and so on. How far back can you follow it?

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

Dead Language Society
Show threadgjmFeb 26
@richardelwes I'm obviously a weirdo but only slightly so; I was fine up to 1300, got maybe 85% of 1200, maybe 40% of 1100 and maybe 10% of 1000.
Show threadRichard Elwes
@gjm Good effort!
Feb 26 at 1:53pmWeb