• Catfish@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    I love Middle English. It can look like gibberish at first, but pretend to be drunk & Scottish 98% of it works. The other words are probably Danish.

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      3 months ago

      My favourite pic displaying the evolution. Middle English is still almost parsable, but old english is basically old German haha

      Also the change of implication. In middle English, God sets one down in the pasture, King James says God makes one lie in pastures, but Modern has God allows one to lay in the pasture.

      And the change of feohland to pasture. I love this stuff so fucking much.

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        3 months ago

        I love side by side versions like those! (I did send you that book link?) it makes the changes and similarities so obvious 😺 language is fun.