AkshayThis short story, written in older and older English as it goes on, rightly went viral!
How far can you understand it?
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english#_
And now, for extra comprehension challenge, there’s Beowulf rendered in Gen Z English
“There was Shield Sheafson, canceler of many tribes,
A high-key shredder of mead benches, flexing all over foes.
This dragger of the hall-troops had come far.
A smol bean to start with, he would glow up hard later on
As his powers got fire af and his rizz went viral.”
Third spruce tree on the leftAs someone who really only "got" #Shakespeare after watching #BazLuhrmann 's #Romeoandjuliet I endorse this. (really wish he'd do more).
Whether its keeping the language but juxtaposing it to modern setting or modernizing the lingo like this.
Like the "biting your thumb" - "Ohhhh, I get it. Bro is _calling him OUT_."
AlexanderVIPro: they actually retained a few examples of front rhyme, showing that whoever wrote this knows the source material, er, fr.
Con: waaaaay too short.
Notable: translating "hwæt!" as "fam", um, took me out?
@AlexanderVI @Akshay indeed. I could stan this frood translating a few other choice wurx.
ZenHeathen 🇨🇦@tezoatlipoca @AlexanderVI You're both dead to me now. /s