Chromebby comments on How far back in time can you understand English?

[–] Chromebby@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

Neat! I had trouble around 1500 lol. 1400 is definitely fked. 1200 looks like German.

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[–] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

I think that's what helped me lol took a bit of German to where I had a vauge sense of what was going on

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml [S] 4 points 7 months ago

yeah, 1200 where it just becomes unreadable

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[–] WereHacker@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

My native language is difficult to read from around 1800 and back and the spoken language is difficult to understand in the cities before 1900 and in the countryside before 1950

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 point 7 months ago

I got a little lost in 1400 and progressed to completely lost by 1100.

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