PugJesus@piefed.socialM to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 5 days agoA little jealous of Arabic speakers for that, nglmedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1131arrow-down10
arrow-up1131arrow-down1imageA little jealous of Arabic speakers for that, nglmedia.piefed.socialPugJesus@piefed.socialM to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 days ago As an English speaker, I can confirm that reading the 14th century AD poet Chaucer without additional notes or translation is a struggle, and not necessarily a victorious one. fucking shakespere is a bitch to understand, and he’s more recent
minus-squareCXORA@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-25 days agoYeah, but thats all a drift in slang and culture. Chaucer uses castly different spelling and grammar than we do now.
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 days agoIt’s the one thing they always get wrong in time travel stories. They go back in time to the mediaeval era and everyone just speaks modern English.
minus-squareguy@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 days agoIf you have time travel you probably have a babel fish as well
fucking shakespere is a bitch to understand, and he’s more recent
Yeah, but thats all a drift in slang and culture.
Chaucer uses castly different spelling and grammar than we do now.
It’s the one thing they always get wrong in time travel stories. They go back in time to the mediaeval era and everyone just speaks modern English.
If you have time travel you probably have a babel fish as well