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English language historian demonstrates what English sounded like throughout history...
Posted on 12/29/25 at 4:26 am
Posted on 12/29/25 at 4:26 am
In one monologue.
He begins with Old English in about the year AD 500 and works his way up to modern English here in the present day. At what point in the video do you start to make sense of what he is saying?
He begins with Old English in about the year AD 500 and works his way up to modern English here in the present day. At what point in the video do you start to make sense of what he is saying?
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Posted on 12/29/25 at 4:43 am to RollTide1987
Very good. A bit after 1000 AD I start picking stuff up
Posted on 12/29/25 at 5:40 am to fr33manator
I heard chicken right before 800. But I start picking stuff up after 900." The room is cold. It is long winter."
Posted on 12/29/25 at 5:42 am to fr33manator
1480 or so. But, I cant make out song lyrics from the 20th century.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 7:35 am to Jorts R Us
I started picking out a few words between 800-900. Around 1400 it started becoming pretty clear.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 7:36 am to RollTide1987
I first started recognizing words around 600-700AD, but it wasn't until ~1000-1100AD until I could make out a full sentence.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 8:05 am to RollTide1987
The printing press was invented in 1440 which tracks with a standard English dialect taking hold. It's crazy how much an affect that single invention had on society.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 8:10 am to Jorts R Us
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I heard chicken right before 800
Yeah that was the first really recognizable noun I heard too
Posted on 12/29/25 at 8:12 am to AllDayEveryDay
1500 is when it started to make sense
Posted on 12/29/25 at 8:23 am to RollTide1987
Sounds like a white guy speaking ebonics in 400-1000 AD
Posted on 12/29/25 at 8:40 am to RollTide1987
That was interesting.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 8:43 am to RollTide1987
I got kin in St Mary Parish that still talk like they are in 1000.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 8:49 am to RollTide1987
Reminds me of trying to read Chaucer at lsu.
Hated that class.
Hated that class.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 8:52 am to RollTide1987
Learned old English and Middle English in my high school English class. Also had to write in old English when we studied Beowulf. It was actually fun.
Not bad for a small high school in opelousas
Not bad for a small high school in opelousas
This post was edited on 12/29/25 at 9:09 am
Posted on 12/29/25 at 9:04 am to fr33manator
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after 1000 AD I start picking stuff up
Probably right after 1066. A follow up to this video will be interesting when we hear the switch to arabic
This post was edited on 12/29/25 at 9:10 am
Posted on 12/29/25 at 10:18 am to BamaCoaster
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Reminds me of trying to read Chaucer at lsu. Hated that class.
Why did you take that class?
Posted on 12/29/25 at 10:28 am to jmh5724
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A follow up to this video will be interesting when we hear the switch to arabic
Why would there be a switch to Arabic?
Posted on 12/29/25 at 10:29 am to RollTide1987
About 1400-1450. Plainly understood after that. 
Posted on 12/29/25 at 10:43 am to RollTide1987
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English language
Germans
Posted on 12/29/25 at 11:01 am to RollTide1987
I started to understand between 700 and 800 .
I speak Pikey though. All you really have to know with them is … If they throw a dog in with the deal they like you.
I speak Pikey though. All you really have to know with them is … If they throw a dog in with the deal they like you.
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