AkshayMar 6

This 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#_

#English #Language #Bookstodon #Linguistics

How far back in time can you understand English?

An experiment in language change

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Show threadKiran Rao

@Akshay this is fascinating. My understanding dropped sharply from 1500s onwards.

Content like this is what the internet was made for!

Mar 8 at 11:15amWeb