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How far back in time can you understand English? (www.deadlanguagesociety.com)

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Very entertaining. I’m totally lost around 1400. I don’t even recognize 1200 as English lol.

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[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Interestingly, DeepL has no problem translating the sections before 1200 into modern English if you tell it it's in Icelandic

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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 7 months ago

Huh. That's definitely interesting.

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[–] LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 1 point 7 months ago

The article explains the language throughout the ages, at the end, and the derivatives, Latin and French drop off, at about that time, and you see the language with its original core, Germanic, at that time, (I have probably butchered that in retelling, I couldn't be bothered going in to get the actual text)

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