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How far back in time can you understand English?
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For stuff that's neat. Neat article? Neat video? Neat pic of a bug you saw? All good. Neat meme? Ehhh... take it to the meme subs.
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I think it would be more of a gradient than a cutoff. Unless you have a more specific definition for "understand."