How far back in time could you go and still understand English?

[@takels3115]

Finding people who speak old english isn't hard at all, just go to a pub in england after 10pm

[@nihilisticbarbie]

😂

[@gamingforaday5446]

My friend live in England and he's working as a videographer in pubs

[@malialaguisa4797]

Lmao

[@ruajavier7008]

😅

[@666madmetalhead]

Maybe I can be safe there from people who say yeet, g, sis and skree

[@HoV326]

Imagine being an english speaker and going back in that time and have someone talk to you and you reply "Sorry I don't speak english."

[@97CelticPredator]

Marcelo Saunders „scuse me?“

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

"CRAPULOUS!" They will say

[@winterlove4750]

Thousandth like from me.

[@n.herbig7592]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@AmeliaOak]

Chris P Bacon but the internet wouldn’t even exist

[@giaa3756]

I tried speaking old English and my bed started levitating.

[@ordinaryguy6654]

Lol. 😂

[@Carlinisalive]

I summoned a demon

[@kibo98764]

lol really sounds like the latin formulas in harry potter, right!

[@vaahtobileet]

@@kibo98764 wouldn't Latin sound like the Latin spells in Harry Potter? They don't make those sounds in Harry Potter or Latin.

[@philomenacappabianca7636]

Funnee

[@gavinthecrafter]

Basically, from 1700-1900, you'd probably still understand everything from 1600-1700, you might struggle a bit, but you'll still understand most of it from 1500-1600, you would have a tough time but you'd still get the gist of what people were saying from 1000-1500, you'd barely understand anything at all, maybe a word here or there but it'd be about as hard to understand as German to a monolingual English speaker before 1000, you wouldn't understand anything, but it'd sound pretty cool

[@TJTroubleMaker]

I wonder how each would be able to understand us given you had an accent like the narrator and spoke clear and slow.

[@joelthorstensson2772]

Swedish speaker, I could understand "rice" and "þin willa" and "heofonum", I suspect that's because they are speaking in some mix of scandinavian and english

[@matthewtopping2061]

@@joelthorstensson2772 What's featured in the video isn't a mix of Scandinavian and English. It's an earlier stage of English that retained more features shared with Scandinavian, because both are Germanic languages.

[@saph100]

The Dutch and Icelandic still understand Old English quite well without reading these, and before 1000 is it’s own vowel shifts, you’d be hearing this until 1150

[@steveisthecommissar4013]

I think with Middle English you can get the gist of what thay are saying if it’s written other then that it pretty hopeless

[@mvs6380]

I’m fluent in Middle English when I’m drunk.

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

Dude... we all speak old english (anglo-saxon language) when we are ze drunk!!!!!! hips

[@joanngumeta8937]

lol nice

[@samirnawrozada6685]

Hi

[@MKMK-bj2sk]

Which make sense pretty sure most of them were drunk then. Like alcohol was more readily available than clean/potable drinking water

[@MrMoOomoOo91]

🤔 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@IamshinyCM]

I tried to speak old English, buf I kept accidentally summoning ancient spirits snd demons

[@eduardusedward5810]

damn me too ,now i lived in a house full of ancient demon

[@timeoftheend9516]

Yeah, cus nobody will tell you it really originally comes from ancient Egypt...ever

[@timeoftheend9516]

Look up Sean Hross - The pharaoh show" here on YouT...

[@slayerslayer7623]

@@timeoftheend9516 ?

[@LaceTicket]

More ancient becomes Latin

[@officialpeppermint8638]

English in 1619: *Wherefore art thou my woe?* English in 2019: *Lmfao yesss queen I’m sister shook, my wig is snatched and that’s the tea sis*

[@poolplexer]

Fail

[@Asholes]

Rotfl I'm crying

[@isabelofcastile9470]

hahahahaha

[@isabelofcastile9470]

English 2019 da best 😂😂😂😂

[@philipfry9436]

English, not Ebonics...

[@TikalTheEchidnaWarrior]

Much respect to the guy who went back to the 1600's to record Shakespeare's voice

[@josephstalin133]

tHeRe wErE nO rEcoRdErS iN tHe 1600s, dUmMiE!

[@TikalTheEchidnaWarrior]

@@josephstalin133 I know it's a joke buddy

[@Xnoob545]

@@TikalTheEchidnaWarrior r/woooosh

[@isabellavasquez200]

@@josephstalin133 no shit sherlock

[@GHZGaming-ff6pv]

@@TikalTheEchidnaWarrior lol he obviusly sarcastic with the way he speak

[@flaminghulaballoo]

This is exactly why I gave up time travel.

[@dw4353]

Bill I gave it up last year It was a bad habit so I stopped

[@daymi7300]

I was thinking about it but I read some documents on a time travel experiment gone wrong and changed my mind

[@IXSuperRadGamerXI]

I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill, and I'm sitting here on capitol hill!

[@flaminghulaballoo]

Sanfew There is no such thing as “Only a Bill”.😉

[@IXSuperRadGamerXI]

@@flaminghulaballoo Lolz

[@thompson_papa]

Crapulous should make a comeback

[@Belikel]

So should child labor.

[@minhkhoitranle4276]

野島デンジ _I'll have to stop you right there_

[@edu_c]

That's the most crapulous idea i've read today.

[@JerryS2485]

It’s a nice way of saying “shitfaced”

[@thompson_papa]

Son, thou room is very crapulous and thou shalt clean it at once!

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

"Petty-fogger" this is what people use to diss eachother in medieval times.

[@jmitterii2]

Sounds the equivalent of "crop-duster".

[@originallegendz8325]

@@jmitterii2 and Barber-monger

[@davidlipman8093]

I like Crapulous. I'm guessing it's meaning

[@adolforodolfo6929]

Pettyfogger isn't obsolete in modern English, just not much used. Same with crapulous, which basically means being in a drunken mess. There are quite few "obsolete" words that flash up in this video that aren't obsolete at all - "abbess" for instance.

[@OcarinaSapphr-]

adolfo rodolfo Post-Reformation, it was slang for ‘prostitute’

[@caitlinkuykendall6529]

As someone who speaks some swedish I am AMAZED at how similar old english sounds to it! holy crapulous!

[@takeurpills6024]

Cool

[@XELAKION]

you should watch some videos on the history of the English language. They both are Germanic languages

[@bettysbois1919]

That'll be thanks to the Vikings

[@caitlinkuykendall6529]

@@bettysbois1919 youre totally right but also because of English originally being a germanic language its just basically become more latin thanks to the Norman invasion and being an island.

[@JHulse29]

I heard people who speak Dutch can also follow it

[@AzakielRuns]

Me speaking English inside my head: "Wow, my English is pretty good actually!" Me speaking English in front of the class: 1:42

[@helpnoname7588]

or 2:03

[@crystallui9421]

😂😂

[@danielled108]

@@helpnoname7588 😂😂😂😂

[@Cassxowary]

Kenneth Pettersen it’s still understandable English

[@ThiagoOliveira-bc1gv]

🤣🤣🤣

[@antonlossev3302]

As a Swede I actually understood the old english "Lord´s prayer quite well. You really get the feeling how English and the northen languages are connected.

[@El6Magico6Arlequin6]

if im not mistaken, your people (as in the nordics in general) invaded the british isles

[@1mercantolga]

Those are all Germanic languages. Thats why

[@ReubenSempleJones]

Yeah this was before the Normans so there was basically no French influence on the English language

[@randomwatcher8419]

As a native English speaker who doesn't really speak any other Germanic language, having a rudimentary knowledge of the Germanic family's grammatical structure + a basic understanding of how Germanic vowels sound, it really isn't that difficult to at least "predict" or "gist out" what is being said. Sure, you won't know all the words, but you know enough to be able to piece it together.

[@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

@@randomwatcher8419 I’ve studied Germanic languages a bit so it’s probably cheating but yeah as a native English speaker that passage is incredibly easy to discern. It would have to be a less recognizable text to really throw me for a loop.

[@danigolightly799]

Should have been a much longer video. Too interesting a subject to go over in just 2 minutes.

[@tylonahambrick2837]

Exactly what I was thinking 🤔

[@kylebos6442]

Yeah

[@handyman4192]

Lol I thought that.

[@missjade2940]

Yeah where's the rest of it ☹️

[@firmman4505]

yes

[@sorrynotsorryxoxo]

my mom had to learn old english and middle english in college to be an english teacher. i have a new found respect for her 😀

[@masteryoda394]

Be careful of Henry the VIII, He's not to be trusted.

[@PrinceAkaiVtuber]

Wow, your mom's college made my college look like an elementary school.

[@stansmith4054]

I think you are mistaken. I am a linguist and the only way that you would learn to speak Old English is if you were in some kind of ancient language graduate program. Old English is basically a whole nother language. Not sure why an English teacher would have to study and learn OE. You may be mistaken. What college was this?

[@千代白渚]

@stansmith4054 Agreed. Middle English is more likely.

[@thimalidassanayake]

​@@masteryoda394Exactly

[@elysienne8475]

Ne'r will give thou up ne'r will let thou down ne'r will run around and desert thou ne'r will causes thee cry ne'r will say godbwye ne'r will say to a lie and hurt thou

[@thomasbyrne2879]

Shit I got Rick rolled

[@hersh511]

Didn't notice I got Rick rolled until the third line

[@sassialane]

This deserves so much more attention

[@robert_ashford]

I got Rick rolled. didnt even notice

[@kristinerivera6637]

Lolll

[@lokesk9938]

1900 brother 2000 bro 2017 bruh

[@bluelambo5]

2027 Brazzier

[@randombuzz8491]

Bruv

[@bigshepherd3127]

3017 B

[@grips7813]

Brah

[@nidia1930]

1800 brethren

[@nhgfdjuytre3785]

Shakespeare invented many words and phrases we still use today such as "Break the ice". "Fair play". "A laughing stock"..words such as Fashionable, Bedazzled. Addiction. Lets see if Bromance, Chillax and Amazeballs are still around in 500 hundred years.

[@Krytern]

Bromance probably will be. Chillax and amazeballs probably not. Slang comes and goes and some sticks it is just how it is. Like how we Brits have said 'mate' for centuries and now Australians say it too.

[@lillyann2818]

I think 'bromance' will last; it's a clever combo that refers to something real that deserves a name. Chillax and amazeballs are just the latest versions of terms that already exist.

[@tenerife_sea]

nhgfd juytre the difference is unlike shakespeare's, we'll never know who created those words lol poor guy

[@lillyann2818]

good point tenerife =)

[@Sigira0]

What's bromance???

[@abbylee8971]

1600's: what the teacher says will be on the test 1400's: i went to a different classroom help

[@walkuro7384]

1880: yeehaw 2080: the yee'st of all haw's, mine'st gendersn't.

[@jaworskij]

I used to say "Yee how'r" to my country gal supervisor 10 yrs. ago.

[@dutchvanderlinde5004]

Doublespeak 2080

[@Ivan-td7kb]

2019: YEET

[@degeneratesquid5873]

@@Ivan-td7kb 2045: Yeeth'nt

[@DayZeroChannel]

My kangaroo is in the pouch

[@thevinnymaster]

So basically a drunk Scotch is our best bet if we want to send someone 1000 years in the past.

[@lisaca76]

SCOT not scotch. Scotch is a drink, not a person.

[@stevenwinnen9104]

Or a mad Scottish Grandmother. My Grandma Dean was something when she got mad or excited.

[@stevenwinnen9104]

But how would a Drunk Scotsman sound after drinking Scotch?

[@palepilgrim1174]

@@lisaca76 Why does Scotch offend you? From here myself and don't understand it. Is it just to be awkward and difficult? What is actually offensive about Scotch...

[@moonmelodies8974]

@@palepilgrim1174 we just don't like it. that should be enough if you're a respectful person.

[@EverythingWright]

This video is actually really interesting and not ridiculous. Haven't felt like this on KZbin for a while.

[@RockItProductions]

+EverythingWright Wish the video was longer though.

[@bdevs.760]

Props to the guy who went back in time to record a man saying the lord's prayer

[@oreotheuser]

hE dIdN't AcTuAlLy Go BaCk In TiMe YoU kNoW

[@Tiger12098b]

@@oreotheuser you don't know the joke

[@oreotheuser]

@@Tiger12098b that was a joke

[@aaronlycan6595]

@@Tiger12098b reverse uno card

[@Tiger12098b]

@@aaronlycan6595 A-

[@BrandonCuringtonOfficial]

1600s: “Thy natural magic and dire property...” 2019: gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang

[@gamingforaday5446]

Juvenal_37 I don't cares and shit

[@pwrovr9k731]

@Juvenal_37 Yeah it was 2017 not 2019 nobody even listens to that song anymore

[@big_sad_wolf]

Mikhail gorbachev r/ihavereddit

[@perc30]

cursed doggo don’t use reddit on anything other than reddit you fucking fool

[@HawkinaBox]

XD

[@user-xt3gt7gg9h]

0:44 Damn Shakespear got better mic quality than me

[@rayenbenfatma5452]

Was that really him? I feel I’m gonna be wooshed

[@Christiancepedaa]

Rayen Ben fatma R/woooosh

[@adriana-ll8vj]

Rayen Ben fatma yeah dude! we had audio recordings of jesus even!

[@ingriddubbel8468]

Learn to spell Shakespeare.

[@nomorevideos5118]

he sounds like a smoker

[@user-nt4rq5ml4m]

"Thou mother art homosexual" "Nay thee"

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

LMAO!

[@alyssasjeans]

FizzyElf “Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!!”

[@zaidkhan6296]

Gay meant happy

[@zaidkhan6296]

Also if the mother was actually gay, she would be burned at the stake as that was the punishment for heretical behaviour in midieval times

[@user-nt4rq5ml4m]

Oh yeah should have been homosexual

[@stevethepirate2875]

Being born in the Southern US my normal "English" is an older version. Trapped behind the Appalachian Mountains for centuries my Southern Drawl is closer to 1700's English than modern. I could still understand the Canterbury Tales without too much difficulty at all. This is changing with time, but Shakspear read in the Southern Vernacular is a truly lovely thing to experience.

[@bloqk16]

Interesting you tell of Southern Drawl to 1700 English, as I recall a half-century ago in a high school drama class I took, where the drama teacher said that English actors/actresses have a knack to speaking the parts of American Southerners in movie period pieces, such as in "Gone With The Wind" and other movie productions and TV dramas.

[@loganwallace5854]

​@@bloqk16yeah Southern English is closer to what was spoken in Great Britain previously. That's why British actors can do a better southern accent than Northerners.

[@alonevera9622]

the oldest english version sounds like they're calling satan lmao

[@misakarancevic8901]

Wrong. It was made by a firm Fred & Barney on a high quality wooden plank using a well fed woodpecker. Of course the warrant period expired in 1250 that's why it sounds this harsh

[@edu_c]

And thus you got Trump

[@carlosmarte3154]

Eduardo Córdova Hilary and her emails must’ve climbed out along with him lol.

[@eriklindhurst5793]

Funny that it was actually the Lord's Prayer.

[@thehoneyeffect]

They did, hence them committing genocide, rape, pillage, enslavement and colonising most of the globe

[@frudlemax]

I wanna learn anglo-saxon English so I can say things like "swa swa" and be completely serious.

[@mysteriumvitae5338]

Befriend user Leornende Eald Englisc, he will be glad to help you.

[@unaellanguages6746]

I second this, I know him well, and he is very helpful.

[@unknownmf2599]

Go to the local Master of acquaintance, Sir Aerlif the knower. He the master will increase your speechcraft

[@alwinpriven2400]

what does that mean?

[@peabodie4liife]

what swa swa means?

[@trollcommando2]

I don't know, "Land pirates" seems like it'd be easy to figure out.

[@RoninCatholic]

And I think it's pretty transparent what an "abbess" is.

[@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820]

Even the Chaucer isn't that hard to figure out. Awkwardly worded by our standards, but makes sense.

[@Billaxle]

Adam The Gr8 We prefer the term "Butt Pirates"

[@ineffablemars]

huggermugger

[@Kee715]

Also worth noting that what is documented of the language from the time period is largely how nobles spoke, not necessarily the commoners. The language of the common folk varied quite a lot more, people often just made up their own words for many things and pronunciation could vary greatly.

[@rboigobrr1489]

looking at it logically your probably right. There's no way some random guy at the pub in the 17th century's gonna start talking like he's in a Shakespeare play.

[@Eronoc13]

"You would hear plenty of words you didn't understand, though." "Abbess"

[@YangSing1]

Aermachrael I don't understand it

[@Eronoc13]

It's just the feminine form of abbot.

[@jonasgreylindley2002]

Aermachrael I don't understand abbot either.

[@HarryBillyBobGeorge]

Reverend Mother. Mother superior. Chief nun in charge.

[@David-qi1ys]

+Jonas Lindley Look, it's not that hard. "Who" is the NAME of the guy that is playing first.

[@VenomTwisted]

The Bible dialect seems easier to comprehend than Shakespeare tbh

[@hjw5838]

Woke American I agree

[@The.Renovator]

Most English speakers don't know what an Abbess is, that shot at America was totally unnecessary.

[@hjw5838]

AMERICAN DUMB! DOYY!

[@Thor.Jorgensen]

Probably because the bible has been retranslated hundreds if not thousands of times. The original bible was in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. It was then translated into Vetus Latina, then Latin Vulgate, where it wasn't translated again before the reformation since the church considered translating it blasphemy and that non-clergy should not be allowed to read the bible. But since then.. Lots of translations.

[@BerenddeBoer]

That's true, because that Bible translation (the 1611 Authorised Version) is dated well after Shakespeare :-)

[@deanolaurence3932]

This was literally the most interesting thing I’ve ever see on the Internet 🤔

[@johnclayton4946]

I've ever seen on the internet! Be careful with your English Sir Robard!

[@Mii.2.0]

69 LIKES! 🤣

[@jasonmccormack8993]

Literally?

[@idk27212]

@@Mii.2.0 169 likes now, and I am going to ruin it.

[@Mii.2.0]

@@idk27212 😡

[@sugarv0id]

1600s: "Abbess, thornback, barber-monger..." 21st century: "gtg, ttyl, oml, wtf, pfp, smh, istg..." edit: ty for 1k likes 👀

[@rusnas2376]

@Alivingoreo706 Its bad rn. Imagine saying k instead of ok, or ? instead of what or huh. SPOOOOOOOOOIIILEDDDDDDDDDD

[@HenryAnimate]

So true

[@MrWittzHD]

@@rusnas2376 you literally just said rn instead of right now

[@gaminglegend]

@TheDaffiestDandelion xD is already a thing

[@atree9284]

oml I love your pfp but smh, if you keep puttng new idioms down I'll yeet you off a cliff, like wtf. anyways, I gtg, ttyl

[@JamesLawner]

Old English is WILD!

[@WelchsFruitySnacks]

Old English was an actual unique language. Now English is just spewing hot garbage anywhere and takes very little skills to understand or use.

[@jasonpyre8572]

MMBNMalternateaccoun "very little skills to understand or use" Are those not good things? Since when does being difficult to speak and learn make one language better than another?

[@WelchsFruitySnacks]

Higher intelligence to use and understand daily life. Modern life is basically being idiot proofed to the point that most humans fail to perform daily functions let alone communicate to one another on a daily basis. You'll have 400 facebook friends but talk to maybe three people in real life.

[@ladythalia227]

MMBNMalternateaccoun Unique? Hmmm, how unique could it be when it was said that Scandinavians and Britons could speak to - and understand - one another when both parties spoke in their own languages.

[@SammyBirdTheGreat]

MMBNMalternateaccoun maybe chill?? you’d probably have like 3 people you liked in your Old English village if you lived back then

[@mekomaxxing]

*gen z in 2019* : “when the tea is served but it’s none of your business but then sis snaps and you’re a skinny legend” (good for you if you know the reference) *people from 4069* : is this shakespeare?

[@hollowhoagie6441]

It's 2019 and I can't even read this

[@Ghenny3030]

izzoneay _ ok boomer

[@mayman4255]

"Tea is served" "sis snaps" "skinny legend" What the fuck does this mean

[@jellsjells5501]

Mayman that the tea is served, Good sis literally snapped, and so skinny she’s a legend is what it means

[@PENSDYNASTY]

This is only for teen girls lmao...

[@ultimatewarrior733]

petition to bring back the word "kickerapoo"

[@chuckritola]

It's a perfectly cromulent word

[@babbabooey1176]

FUCK YEAH!!!

[@kukenkarlsson3607]

From the "Grose 1811 Dictionary" Kickerapoo =Dead. (NEGRO WORD).

[@cliffsofmoher4220]

Should we bring back the word thou

[@ultimatewarrior733]

@@cliffsofmoher4220 absolutely

[@suzannewagner852]

So basically, the more marbles I shove in my mouth, the older my English will sound. Cool!

[@thatyoudliketoknow1628]

Bring 40 marbles and youre time travel ready.

[@aleidpalentinos1256]

Can you you fit something long and hard aside from marbles in your mouth?

[@2five0three]

1500's: saoush shall shracas seihl 2019: thats the tea sis

[@jameeztherandomguy5418]

Old English: thæt sy sé drenc, sweostor so, how the hell did you get that Middle English one? that wasn't actually what it was in Middle English if the *Old English version* of that is closer to modern

[@ghettoblaster36]

art thou feeling it now mr krabs?

[@potamusgains362]

ghettoblaster36 10/10 would meme again

[@MrsSasukeUchiha]

ghettoblaster36 😂😂😂

[@mrcastillo4240]

ghettoblaster36 😂😂😂😂

[@albertmerlew]

ghettoblaster36 Feelest thou it now mr. Krabs?

[@Wilsbourne]

Dost thou even hoist?

[@Jalapablo]

So basically if I lived in 14th century England everyone would sound like Willie the groundskeeper from the Simpsons.

[@noneofhourbusiness]

Paul West, No because Willi has a pure Scottish accent.

[@Jalapablo]

Aye ye dumbass. Tis' what I mean. Sounds like Scots I tell ya! Scots! Arrrgggh! Ye stoopid dumbass

[@fabianfischer4229]

Damn those Scots! They ruined Scotland!

[@dyread]

The scottish language is a celtic language, not Germanic like English.

[@AdhocHoopla]

dyread Depends what you mean. Scots is definitely from old to middle English.

[@yokiryuchan7655]

Makes you think 1000 years from now. The english language will sound totally different from how it sounds now.

[@محمدالقحطاني-س1ق4ف]

If you go back 1500 years ago you will still understand Arabic that’s amazing

[@radialb1894]

@@محمدالقحطاني-س1ق4ف Not progressing at all is not amazing. Imagine telling a woman 1500 years ago that she still cannot drive or get an education. Time for your arabic world to add something of value to the world!

[@محمدالقحطاني-س1ق4ف]

@@radialb1894 what are you talking about?

[@ديالنايونس]

@@محمدالقحطاني-س1ق4ف He couldn't handle that L .

[@ashtonimus6124]

​@radialb1894 dude he's just saying it's astonishing how the Arabic language has stuck around for this long calm down

[@YHChiu-jy2yi]

Would you like to have a cup of Tay?

[@djh4min59]

i would, but when i come back it'll be goan

[@TalexxAltava]

Stanley Chiu Besides, I have a meeting with the abbess-the old thornback. No doubt that barber-monger will be with her. I'm not looking forward to the brabble, but I'd best get going.

[@Mafila]

Yyyyeeeeaaaaaaasssssss! Flourish the pinky.

[@alecrosewell6959]

yea sure mate.

[@MrFox-ih9vp]

Woold Yew loike ay coup oof tay?

[@FromNothing]

Middle English literally sounds like a mix of German and French.

[@Krytern]

English is a Germanic language and after the Norman Conquest about 29% of English is French so that makes sense.

[@Krytern]

John Jaeger - Typos at 3 in the morning will be typos.

[@moshow93]

And old English sounds more German.

[@johnjaeger2968]

Krytern UK it's just some friendly bantz, bro. It happens to the best of us

[@benlucas3625]

It doesn't sound like French at all. It sounds like a blend of modern English and Nordic Languages. It sounds poetic because what he read was from The Canterbury Tales. Written language in many languages often isn't how most people regularly speak on a daily basis.

[@scottbridge9391]

This would explain why Hela, after being resurrected in Thor Ragnorok, said "so, he's goan", hinting that Odin locked her away before the Great Vowel Shift occurred.

[@faaznoushad1718]

Hmm

[@Hikari1304_]

NIVEA yea... we don’t pronounce it like that. It’s more of a ‘gorn’ don’t focus on over pronouncing the ‘r’ tho

[@PhilK112]

I was in a hospital in North East England and was chatting with a young Danish woman about languages and dialects and she was so delighted on hearing the local accent so similar to her own Danish ! The local slang had phrases like 'gan hyem' for go home and in Denmark it's gan hyem !!! She mentioned others but it was 30 years ago!!!! (Forgetful) !!

[@thebasedspectre3048]

Well Anglo Saxon(Old English) and Danish is nearly the same language

[@johannesgh90]

If you speak Icelandic, it got easier to understand there at the very end.

[@MrEiliv]

Lucky Icelandics. You have a real pure language. Here in Norway it's almost German. :(

[@MrAmi69]

Well, Iceland was created by Norwegian immigrants over 1000 years ago, so basically all the people on Iceland are Norwegians with less influence of other european languages :)

[@owenernst7768]

what did it say?

[@jonareisen]

Owen Ernst It's Lord's Prayer

[@killere2009]

Eiliv Ulvestad Henschien it is not that being pure is actually catching up in information rate which is the most important aspect for today

[@pineapplepizza8639]

Old English is basically Icelandic.... and in about 1000 years, nobody would understand current English. "Y'all'd've'f'i'd've"

[@xXxSkyViperxXx]

Zuramaru lol and in 1000 years icelandic will be english hurhuehueheuehue

[@flyingskyward2153]

Zuramaru You all would have if I had have?

[@connerclark3678]

Kesh me outsaide, how'bow'dah

[@cllo234]

HANAMARU

[@KimiHayashi]

Zuramama I highly doubt it will change. Today's globalization will probably prevent modern English from changing since English is being spoken by non English speakers and turning a specific English word into a new word or form would be too troublesome for other countries to adapt so it would most likely stay the same forever now. New slangs will come and go though like how the word "fly" is now replaced by "lit"

[@fredsalfa]

I had to study the Canterburry Tales at school and I had NO IDEA what Chaucer was talking about ! All the other kids picked it up easily but I had ZERO Idea LOL

[@shadow2570]

Voice of Reason Attempting to appear modest but throwing in a humble brag.

[@merricat3025]

I didn't understand it either. Cliff Notes. That's how I got through it.

[@Jiff321]

Naw I bet most of them were bull shitting lol. I know i would.

[@secondstring]

No way all the other kids picked it up easily. Maybe one or two, but I guarantee you most struggled just like you did, unless you were in a class of Mensa's.

[@zacharywilson9596]

Voice of Reason r/humblebrag

[@guilhermeteixeira7095]

It is quite interesting for me (a non-native English speaker) to know how far in human history I can get connected to just by having learned English as my second language.

[@michaelsrowland]

English is a new language. We spoke different languages in Britain depending on which tribe you came from.

[@charlottepeukert9095]

What would Elizabeth the First sounded like and would a native speaker understand her and vice versa?

[@slamwall9057]

If you had a time machine, how far forward could you go, and still understand English? In the 21st Century, you will probably still be OK. "Johnny Johnny yes Papa eating sugar no Papa." However, you will not understand words like "git" "omfahg" and "tus." In the 22nd Century, it is a little bit harder. "Ur fav color is not my fav color cos it isnt." Harder to follow, but not everyone speaks like that. You would hear plenty of words you didn't understand though. The bigger problem now is the pronounciation. Some words are changing and becoming much harder to understand. For example, "happy" is pronounced "ye" and "not sure" is pronounced "meh." In the 2200s people essentially speak like text messages. "Omg im lmao cos ur such a noob." There are also hundreds of words that you will not understand. After about 2400, you would hear Future English and you would hardly understand anything. "Ur bfz cify & we no tat im nbd 2d % diaw u lmk." If you went all the way to 2700, they would speak Far Future English. "Gugs ue sisebx sis yurn dud sis fuff jid gh cs hse." Good luck explaining that you need 1.21 Gigawatts to get home.

[@5665-r4h]

10,000 english: _*(_

[@EdTube444]

Probably don't have 700 years left on earth as a species

[@noralasiah5623]

Wat ar'yu tokin abaut? I'm spekin sainsfrikkshon Ingles!

[@adrianazashen]

As 1na fro fotura is umpoc tru!

[@mattiasn310]

Very Good!

[@petitio_principii]

I think that "crapulous" could well make a comeback.

[@Whoville3]

Petitio Principii hell YEA!

[@Mothlord03]

Yes

[@MauriatOttolink]

Petitio Principii It already has done:- "relating to the drinking of alcohol or drunkenness." Plus:- crapulent |ˈkrapjʊl(ə)nt| adjective literary relating to the drinking of alcohol or drunkenness. DERIVATIVES crapulence noun, crapulous adjective ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from late Latin crapulentus ‘very drunk’, from Latin crapula ‘inebriation’, from Greek kraipalē ‘drunken headache’.

[@MauriatOttolink]

Gappie al Kebai Thank you. Two out of my three favourite vices. Quick Tip:You need to include the name to whom you wish to reply. I took a guess and got lucky! Regards. M.O.L

[@MauriatOttolink]

Gappie Al Kebabi. And yours is a Walk In The Park, is it? You can google my account name and derive my activity. It actually makes sense. My I suggest a more suitable account name for you. er..Let's see now.. "ReallyFuckin'AwkwardBastardUnableToRecogniseA_GestureOf FriendshipIf ItJumpedupAndBitHisBollocks" I know, I know..It's a bit long and although it's a pain to type in, it IS very accurate. Perhaps the slightly briefer, more concise "BIG TWAT" might be just as appropriate? eh? Big Twat? If you ever need any assistance to get your head out of your arse, please send me your SatNav details and I'll program them into my I-Kalashnikov & send you some lead based help! By the way ...MY meaningful account name is ONE character less than your meaningless gibberish. If you find that "BIG TWAT' is already in use, try Cunt.. It's short and to the point. People are probably thinking that anyway!

[@Stone815]

woke up from a 2 year coma... 2017: "Cash me oussid howbow dah!"

[@ricardocastaneda875]

Michael Maxime wasnt much better 2 years ago anyway.

[@gregoriysharapov1936]

Michael Maxime Eee gay

[@bryanshi1059]

21th Century: Bruh 20th Century: Brother 18th Century: 𝖇𝖗𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗

[@Thuggwaffen]

16th century: břœthěř

[@jameeztherandomguy5418]

10th Century: *broðor*

[@carrotizgud9222]

@@jameeztherandomguy5418 1st Century: Бřouethěř

[@ambasfamily]

5000 BCE: *GrrrahHHHHH!*

[@aryyancarman705]

Any one about pie

[@tspoon772]

Thumbnail says 2018. The current year is 2019. Video posted three years ago. Ok.

[@dafrandle]

I only see 2015

[@shiftyguggs2415]

T Spoon bro I just experienced a Mandela effect

[@noahpegasus8898]

The first thing came to my mind when I saw the thumbnail...

[@Cassxowary]

T Spoon also, posted in in 2015, with a song from a channel whose first video was 2017

[@kevinhernandezretana2170]

Uploaded can change the thumbnail, which is dumb...they just got tired of changing it every year

[@minecraftion25565]

It isn't so much how much you could understand that's the question, but how well they could understand modern English. Communication is a two-way street.

[@JoeCampione0]

Aguila701 you could go back 30 years and people would look at you funny

[@commonsense3921]

30 years ago would be 1987 english is pretty much the same idiot.

[@JoeCampione0]

Common Sense 133T speak is a modern form of english from the internet, which wasn't even around in 1987. Idiot

[@commonsense3921]

Joe Campione modern computer talk is not "speaking" it's writing you dumbfuck, This video is based on SPEAK, 30 years ago the internet didn't exist which makes your statement completely idiotic, Smh

[@JoeCampione0]

Common Sense the title of the video says "understand English". That includes speaking and writing. You are really offended by this and I'm not really sure why. Where did I hurt you? Can you point out for me? Thanks

[@ki6eki]

The 1600s had some shitty microphones

[@purenrg4life]

+Michael Choe damn you for winning the internet today!

[@itstayaaa8280]

Michael Choe 😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@joseluisblanco8074]

:) :)

[@xGARIDx]

"King of troll" award winner

[@dhatchbernier]

Michael Choe you win the internet, sir.

[@adolforodolfo6929]

Languages change gradually, so it's really hard to find a cut-off point in the past where they become unintelligible - and that point will vary for individuals depending on their natural linguistic abilities and their education - for example, if you have studied French and, particularly, German, you will find Middle English more understandable than someone who has not. And, of course, we generally only encounter older forms of English as written languages, not as spoken ones. There are three main stages in the development of English. Old English, which goes up to the beginning of the 12th Century; Middle English which goes from about 1100 to 1500; "Modern English" from 1500 on. But these aren't leaps, they are milestones along a path of constant, gradual change. A bit of obscure vocabulary aside, a modern English speaker would be able to understand everyday speech from 1500 onwards without any great difficulty. With modernised spelling, Shakespeare is perfectly intelligible - if he wasn't, we wouldn't still be watching his plays. And Shakespeare's language is often removed from everyday speech - a lot of it is poetic and formal, and his vocabulary is much wider than that used in everyday circumstances. By the time of the Civil War (1640's) written English is very little different from what it is today. Middle English is more difficult for a modern English person to understand without making a significant effort. For most of us, if we do encounter Middle English at all, it is Chaucer, so late 14th century. After a while, it's not that difficult to understand, especially if you have knowledge of German and French - and it is easier to understand when read out loud than it is as a written language, where the spellings can sometimes disguise words that are actually still in use. But Old English is a different kettle of fish and completely unintelligible to a modern English speaker. It has to be learned in the same way that a foreign language does. So where is the cut off date? Different for different people, but for a lot of us, I would say it lies somewhere towards the end of the Middle English period.

[@maxheadroom3839]

If you visit Newcastle you can stop understanding English today.

[@maxheadroom3839]

Reef Campbell Newcastle in England 😉👍.

[@starski1982]

yee waant fillin in? :)

[@chonkyadventures4930]

Wha ya mean ya lil mug

[@ΗλίαςΠαπαδάτος-χ3ξ]

And Liverpool too...

[@firstnamesurname3899]

Ηλίας Παπαδάτος well along of people seem to understand The Beatles...

[@elieli2570]

Old English sounds like today's Dutch

[@googlesucks7840]

Dutch is supposed to be the easiest language for an English speaker to learn.

[@BamBamGT1]

@@googlesucks7840 Ik denk dat jij niet echt veel begrijpt van wat ik hier schrijf, tenzij je natuurlijk van Nederland of Vlaanderen bent, in dat geval maak ik mij hier behoorlijk belachelijk :p

[@googlesucks7840]

@@BamBamGT1 Je hebt gelijk. Het is maar goed dat ik Google vertaal en dat Nederlanders Engels spreken! :)

[@googlesucks7840]

@LegoGuy87 I agree. I was reffering to a youtube video I saw but since the invading Saxons came from Frisa in the Netherlands, I suppose it makes sense the language is quite close. Maybe it was reffering to the sound rather than the written word? On the other hand, if something sounds strange in England, it is reffered to as "double-dutch". Just as well we have Google tanslate.

[@cellardoor199991]

Sounds like a drunken Irish guy

[@FollowerOFtheNAZARENE]

holy shit the last one sounded like some other language entirely

[@Redheadsmiles23]

+Ashley somebody I believe that was when it was transitioning out of Old English into Modern English, which I find interesting that it is still classified as English. If your interested the language before Old English was Anglo-Frisian, then West Germanic (or a sub language of West Germanic to be specific) Proto-West Germanic (proto means before, ie prototype), Germanic and finally Proto-Indo-European, all of which are pretty much unspeakable by native speakers of the descendent languages unless said speaker has study the language. :P

[@shinmusashi44]

+Ashley somebody Because it is. Very first English comes from North Germany. Remember "England" was Celtic. North Germans brought their language that became English. Anglo people are from North Germany.

[@BritishBeachcomber]

Sabrina - Frisian is actually one of the easiest languages for a native English speaker to learn.

[@bookmouse770]

I think you're right. There was an old program called The Story of English where it showed how it changed though history.

[@KyleP133]

It mostly is. English as we know it is mixed up low-German (as in German low-lands - by the sea, the ones who went out on boats and conquered coastal areas and islands, like Brittania) mixed with French (thanks to the Norman invasion - you know, from Normandy, France) which basically came from Latin.

[@geisaune793]

Can't believe I found this video again! You can't hardly find anything on youtube that was posted before like 2016 from the search bar these days. It's been a while!

[@ether9163]

"bruh whomst'd left this sword here? yeeet lmao 💯👌🏽😂" -King Arthur

[@NoThrottle]

Aarohan Bordoloi i dont think mirrors work that way

[@libbyfan]

Oof.

[@hetaliafordummies9372]

I’m English and I should be offended, but I’m not lol

[@Yestervid]

batty fang = a beating kickerapoo = dead land pirates = highway robbers gutfoundered = very hungry whapper = a big lie nitsqueeger = a hairdresser xantippe = an ill tempered wife abbess = a nun thornback = a spinster barber-monger = a vain man bleater = someone who complains a lot brabble = to quarrel loudly crapulous = the feeling of being too full hugger-mugger = secretly lettice-cap = a medical device like a hair net pigarlik = a bald head petty fogger = a dodgy lawyer mumpsimus = the act of sticking to old mistaken beliefs about language and customs simply out of habit

[@0ManPiano0]

So is there any book that was left untranslated and is now almost can't be understood at all?

[@LisaCupcake]

+Yestervid So, a whapper is like a whopper. That one hasn't changed a whole lot. :)

[@gesus44]

+Yestervid Still use bleating here in NZ, not much but have heard it and said it A few times.

[@carmend1665]

+Yestervid Let me add to this list by translating some black names Shaniqueea = Sarah Yaquisha = Jill Reigh rey = Rachel Oniqueya = Olivia

[@hardoff]

+Oskar yes, he was quite the cunning linguist

[@luca5818]

0:43 When devil reads Shakespeare I bet he sounds like that.

[@elacomedido]

Man that Shakespeare English gave me goosebumps. It's like as if someone literally got on a time machine and recorded Shakespeare reading Hamlet.

[@kiuidreamsofgardens]

....I can barely understand some people nowadays

[@normaninconnu3633]

vocaloidkiko7 What?

[@ryanhernandez1877]

O srry m8 ddnt evn n knw tht u wr a non l33t scrub lul

[@lmani]

Yeah

[@christopherbonanno1120]

1700s. Top of the morning to you my good sir 2019. Sup man

[@Kmn2]

Vince Black 2019:wys bruv

[@Mii.2.0]

2099: 🅱️us 🅱️oppin 🅱️

[@MS-WCoastal]

2200: Sup’m, u teach lil’s old lit, yeah?

[@AvitalShtap]

Michael Stafford 2005 Dang ol English I tell you what man I'm a dang ol I'm talking dialects, talkin' bout dang ol Olde

[@MS-WCoastal]

Mag Magnet 2005? Dam’m, 2200 takeaway 2005... restplace got my calc in the freezemode, so to clutch dat, can’t. But dam’m, back digits lil bit, n’its shoveltalk. 1800 peeps warble funny, u-kno’m, I guess’m u-kno?

[@Dracopol]

1,000 years ago, you paid a story teller by sticking coins in his pocket, his eyes would light up and he would say what he intended to tell, pronouncing these syllables in a sing-song way with the notes G and E: "SAAAAA-GAAAAA!" This has been memorialized in a certain video game console of the 80s.

[@antonygooding7657]

As I understand it American English as spoken today is similar to English English as spoken three or four centuries ago. It’s British English that appears to have evolved away from US and Canadian English , it would be interesting to compare note with the Aussies and Kiwis to see how there version of English has altered over the centuries in comparison with the other English-speaking nations

[@Maxumized]

Are you on fucking drugs?

[@Tucosifo]

English 2021: Hey, do you know where the restroom is? English 2221: Yo, d'ye know where the restroom's? English 2421: Yag, d'ye know'ere the narroom's? English 2621: Yaj, ye no'er the narroom's? English 2821: Yaje, yenno'ere the narroo's English 3021: Yajé, yin'ere de naroz?

[@clarissamcpigeon7857]

Go to parts of London or Dundee or Glasgow in 2017 and you still couldn't understand the "English" being spoken there.

[@justjet175]

Clarissa McPigeon Try Orkney. I'm still not sure that English is spoken there at all and I lived there for 16 years.

[@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath]

Not much English is spoken in London these days.

[@williamlucas4656]

The Glasgow is more accent than grammar. They need to stop gargling when they speak.

[@Raikaska]

Clarissa McPigeon Paying a lil' visit to ol' McDuck's castle I suppose?

[@Raikaska]

Clarissa McPigeon Great nickname btw

[@mr.balloffur]

They wouldn't understand English in 2019 either.

[@Niinamythe75xNiinsShalashaska]

"sksksksksk"

[@lukamaslesa6531]

Ok boomer

[@Xnoob545]

@@Sogood869 lmao ye bro

[@NoCluYT]

Go to Toronto or London, UK. You won't understand a single thing from London roadman.

[@mr.balloffur]

@@lukamaslesa6531 born in 1984, but whatever

[@highgroundproductions8590]

All the way back to 1700 - British Accent 1600 - West Country Accent 1500 - Scottish Accent 1400 - French/German accent

[@tremmort2794]

Fuck you. English is just the accent of French and nothing more!!!

[@hancodyby]

how on fucking earth does anyone get upset at a comment like that? *says some random things, not directed at anyone* *soon, two different people(or maybe the same one) angrily approach with insults*

[@neilgriffiths6427]

tremmor 1 - troll.

[@Danimal77]

A very angry and frustrated person in life who releases those miss-channeled emotions onto people they don't know over the internet.

[@hoennnoodle]

1700 - US accent. The modern ‘British’ accent is an invention of the industrial revolution-era’s upper class society

[@thesciencegenius1237]

This is what it is usually like for me... Mid 19th cen. (around 1850) onwards = perfectly understand it. 1500s to mid 19th century = mostly understand it. 1066 - 1500 = understand the majority of it with some difficulty. Before 1066 = somewhat understand it, with a huge amount of difficulty (the language is even harder before the viking era). Anglo-Frisian = *brain explodes*

[@carlgharis7948]

Actually I'd say 1700s onwards understand 90%. 1500/ early 1700s. You understand a good 2/3. And people you meet they'd understand the main point of what you're saying however still have difficulty deciphering the whole thing. Much before 1500 going back into middle English you'd hear what sounds like a foreign language however you'd recognize many words familiar too you. Really I'm not sure you could really get into a conversation with anyone you 1st meet before 1650. Old English of course. I recognized 2 words of that entire thing.

[@dirksplithof3174]

I heard some Dutch sounds in the 1300 one. The droghte of March for example sounds like 'de droogte van maart', which means March's drought.

[@EvilFookaire]

While it wasn't in this video, you could even hear someone from those times say "wijf" in "old" Scottish, perhaps in Old or Middle English as well, with the same meaning and spelling.

[@AverageAlien]

Dutch vikings

[@A.Man..]

How many years in the future can you go and still understand english....I'm struggling already with our youth

[@DallasJayCook]

😂

[@JacobHollis96]

Oof

[@plumfun6750]

About two weeks I reckon.

[@666madmetalhead]

I'm 23 and already struggling. I'd say less than a few months

[@JacobHollis96]

@@666madmetalhead I'm actually the same age as you. I just adapted quickly.

[@grapefruit9308]

Why does Shakespeare sound like he’s giving a curse

[@Chudyak025]

Or Darth Vader trying to speak middle English

[@happygilmore5948]

It's from Hamlet. The actor is playing the role of a murderer.

[@calfiger]

Ta sae muckle fur posting, ah loue thae leid evolution videos! 🙏🏾

[@ronaldfazekas6492]

What about accents?--When did Americans stop speaking with British accents?--When did our Southern and Western dialects begin?--When did Australians get their own accent?

[@Anyox17]

Actually, it was the other way around. The British accent you think of today was an invention of the Industrial Revolution as a way for the upper class to differentiate themselves from lower classes. Prior to that, the English spoke with an accent very close to what you'd call an American accent.

[@ericsalles3393]

Ronald Fazekas Australian accent sounds like English estuary accent South East England mate

[@sondradeestanley7034]

Vyrrohs X I've never heard that before. Can you link me to where you got your information from?

[@Anyox17]

Sondra Dee Stanley A quick Google search will provide you with a plethora of information on the subject. It isn't hard to find. However, here is one link to an article written by BBC on the subject. www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english

[@rachel-zb1ms]

eric salles australian accent is a mix of english dialects (mostly cockney and ireland accents cos that was most of the convicts ) and the aboriginal accent

[@serbien1]

That moment when you realise that the Connecticut Yankee couldn’t have communicated with anyone in King Arthur’s Court...

[@NDOhioan]

Actually, that would be even worse. The Knights of the Round Table weren't English, they were Britons. They'd be speaking one of the Brittonic languages.

[@moondiamondcat]

OhioGentleman - I was just about to say that... ;o)

[@lordcherrymoore5252]

Thank you! Was going to say that too

[@wolf1066]

Was thinking the same thing - a native-speaker of Welsh, Cornish or Breton would probably be lucky enough to get one word in ten...

[@cr2zybadger]

How is Thy Latin valorous sir?

[@MrZAP17]

I'm pretty sure anything post-vowel shift would be pretty easy to understand, and honestly we'd be fine even in the middle of it as well. Even if we don't pronounce words the same way tea = tay and gone = gon are fairly intuitive and so on. Also remember that people didn't really talk the way Shakespeare wrote; he was deliberately prettyfing his dialogue. Chaucer would also be pretty easy to understand orally, I expect, though if you went up north it would a lot harder (I mean, have you read The Faerie Queen? Same time as Chaucer, but vastly different dialect. Chaucer was a Londoner, so his dialect was more dominant.). So we could probably get by, at least in the London area, at least in the 14-15th century, though with some difficulty. The real trouble would be slang, as the video points out, but we could learn the ins and outs of pronunciation and vocabulary pretty easily and intuitively. Old English is pretty much incomprehensible, though. That was before the linguistic surge of French influence post-1066, and when the Danes and Norwegians were messing around with Isles all the time. The 11th-12th century is probably the marker for when things really changed dramatically in English, and headed towards the path of our language today.

[@KateGladstone]

No, THE FAERIE QUEENE was written more than three centuries after Chaucer wrote. Its author (Edmund Spenser) was trying hard, but not quite successfully, to simulate Chaucerian English.

[@MrZAP17]

Huh. So you're right. Sorry for that misinformation. It seems my own sources were inaccurate there. I still think we'd be able to understand Chaucer fairly easily if spoken, though.

[@oldfrend]

am I on the wrong internet? where are the flames and the epicly immovable stubbornness?

[@poiuytrewq11422]

oldfrend We are men of words, not petty insults. You piece of shit.

[@oldfrend]

that's more like it. normal service restored =D

[@Xnoob545]

1:15 Makes much more sense Phone and gone both have the same ending but don't rhyme But in the old pronunciation they do rhyme

[@matthewa9694]

1:42 sounds more like my friends at the bar every weekend

[@olafrabel3413]

When studying English at university here in Germany we had translation lessons of Old and Middle English - it proved that English and German are cognate languages indeed. The older the English the easier the translation into German

[@carlgharis7948]

Well I recognize a few words of German however can't speak it. 1 of my great grandfather's learned how to say ( the war is over for you) as we're talking world war 1. Out fighting the Kizer. No I don't know how.

[@PhilK112]

Absolutely I read once the pronunciation of certain words in most northern Germany and Denmark is closer to English pronunciation than areas of their own country

[@thesolverr]

"cash me outside howbow dah" 2017

[@sapphirejaxxgh8639]

thesolverr sadly, yes....

[@sykosykes04syk]

thesolverr I still don't know what the fuck that means

[@namingisdifficult408]

sykosykes04 agreed

[@paulden3158]

thesolverr LOL

[@paulanthonyhoeflich8988]

lol

[@brandonrunkel6554]

That last part was the Lord’s Prayer. It’s amazing how Germanic English was before the French invasion!

[@robertfishman3742]

After 1066, and going until some point in the 1400s, English kings and nobles mainly spoke French, while Latin was the language of the Catholic Church. English was generally a peasant language.

[@Krzyszczynski]

" .... a peasant language." Ah, but nurses and child-minders to the nobility were usually recruited from the ranks of the peasantry. And they talked to their charges in the only language they knew. And thus often the first language those little aristos learnt was the "peasant" one. They had to be taught French later in life in order to take their proper place in society. After some 300 years the absurdity of all this was suddenly realised, and French fell rather rapidly out of use.

[@feereel]

there was no french..in france they spoke 3 seperate languages ..french came later to become one of the main languages of the european courts..however with the house of hesse assuming the english crown in the 1700s ..it was german that george 1 and 2 spoke

[@CassandrashadowcassMorrison]

Not precisely. "Anglish" was the language of the Angles. You are thinking of Saxon which was a Germanic language that was ONE of the sources of the Anglo-Saxon (or "Old English") language spoken in England before the Norman Conquest. FYI, Saxons weren't precisely "peasants" in the modern way of thinking. Remember "Robert of Locksley" (Loxley) near Sheffield, in South Yorkshire, was a Saxon by birth the heir to his father's Earldom. He has varying dates of birth but most put him around 1160 (12th Century).

[@funlanguages7922]

yes true.

[@lindenstromberg6859]

@@Krzyszczynski French fell out of favour with the English Nobility after the Baron's War and the loss of most holdings in France. The major shift occurred during the reign of Edward I (Longshanks).

[@michaeldonaghy5685]

Shakespeare's time is an interesting one. Reading different writers from that time, the lack of linguistic norms leads to a lot of idiosyncratic expression, with some writers intentionally sounding obtuse or verbose in order to come across as intelligent. Robert Greene was one culprit, who appeared not to understand what he himself was writing! If you contrast that with, say, Sir Walter Raleigh, he spoke perfect, lucid English which is instantly recognisable to a modern person.

[@leod-sigefast]

Why do all readers of old and middle English make it sound overly dramatic. The Anglo-Saxons were probably not living in a permanant Beowulf epic saga!

[@FroyimGratch]

+Leode Siefast Hwaet!?

[@sarban1653]

How did you come to that conclusion?

[@Felixxxxxxxxx]

Icelandic has not changed much since year 900. The further back in the video they got the pronunciation and vocabulary got closer to Icelandic. it is obviously very hard to tell how people spoke back then, but I would say that they gave it a fair try

[@reidcircuits826]

ownya8 kinda makes sense. icelandic was a viking language and the viking took over england at one point.

[@frakkintoasterluvva7920]

David Reid Actually, it doesn't have much to do with Danish/viking conquests in the 9th century and occasionally later (which had a minor influence on Old English in the form of some borrowed Old Norse words) but with the fact that Anglo-Saxons already spoke a language similar to Norse languages, because that's where they were originally from.

[@FebruaryHas30Days]

Even as a Filipino, I still need to go as far back as the year 600 before I could no longer understand a single word of English.

[@turmuthoer]

To make things more complicated, _where_ would likely matter just as much as as when. For example, on top of being completely unintelligible to a modern English speaker, Old English was not a unified language and had many different dialects (West Saxon, Mercian, Northumbrian and Kentish).

[@blackpinkblinkfam7197]

Sounds like places from the Netflix show “the last kingdom” they have places called Northumbria and Kentish and the other ones u named

[@marcelineraber]

I heard that that was Middle English, though you're likely right. The dialects must have split even more at Middle English. I read that English speakers couldn't talk to one another if they were raised only 50 miles apart during that time.

[@profoundprocrastinator]

Even today dialects persist, you can travel 10 miles and get a different one. I say dialect because its wording and grammar not just how it sounds when it comes to speech. I am from Northumbria, or at least where it was.

[@sonoftheway3528]

@@blackpinkblinkfam7197 That's because it's based on actual history

[@jakevachon8948]

@@sonoftheway3528 He can't be serious lol

[@cameranriley479]

2017: whom'st'd'y'all'dve

[@espalorp3286]

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[@stylomojo]

Sorry is that English Slang? I'm asian so I wish someone teach me that word meaning plz

[@evag8716]

Cashme'ousside'how'bou'dah

[@ivanjimenez2575]

Cameran Riley LMAOOO

[@lorenzlin6898]

Lol what's that supposed to mean??

[@nickcranny2980]

I learned 3 dialects of Middle English studying Chaucer, Langland and Tolkeins edition of The 'Gawain Poets' Gawain and the Greene Knyght! Here's the thing, not long after I traveled to the Netherlands where I had never been before, I found my passive knowledge of dutch was enormous my hard G pronunciation was spot on and I could (within days) go into shops and ask for stuff in Dutch, and get it! My point is that the Middle English and particularly John Langland's SE Midlands dialect was nearly interchangeable with modern Dutch, people thought my pronunciation was odd, but I could understand them a lot and more importantly THEY could understand me!

[@roodborstkalf9664]

True, the further back you go in time the closer you come to a common language that in the 7th century was spoken around all the coasts around the southern North Sea. This language is called Old-English (in England) or Old-Frisian (in Netherlands and Germany), but in essence it is the same language.

[@hera9l]

ولقد ذكرتك و الرماح نواهل مني ..وبيض الهند تقطر من دمي. This Arabic poetry is very old since 1600 years ago. But we understand it and use it in literature.

[@B_uttcrumbs]

Swa swa.

[@seansimcoe4781]

My rofl copter makes that noise

[@RaymondAlexisPuentes90-70-100]

Swa swa.

[@petop3]

it sounds like the danish ending of 'our father who art in heaven' which is 'du som er i himlene' that 'som er' is pronounced 'suhm ehr' could be related to the swa swa?

[@kevinbyrne4538]

@ petop3 -- In Old English "swa" means "so, therefore" or "as" ; "swa swa" means "just as". Thus "on eordan swa swa on heofonum" means "on Earth just as in Heaven".

[@petop3]

Kevin Byrne ah ok. Thanks :)

[@MacJaxonManOfAction]

Think of town/city words in English. Suburb, alley, precinct, estate, boulevard, office, court, judge, jury, law, corporate, justiciary, legislature, executive, conference, parliament... most, though not all, are descended from Norman French (or Latin), because the Normans controlled the towns. They presided over the courts and the government after 1066. Now think of country words: sheep, pig, chicken, cow, grass, water... overwhelmingly Saxon and Old English, because the countryside was were the vast majority of the Saxon population lived, and so those words more often have their roots in Old English.

[@RashidMBey]

It's not that I doubt you, it's that this explanation is so awesome that I'd like to read more. Will you reply with some sources? That's logical and cool.

[@DaDunge]

How fortunate then that I speak Swedish German and low saxon. I think i would be able to make the 2.1 GW point across with some effort.

[@KateGladstone]

Here's a good source: www.merriam-webster.com/help/faq-history

[@pbrower2a1]

The Brits, unlike the Germans (German is full of loan translations, and English after about 1400 has relatively few), largely quit deriving words by compounding words of Germanic origin. It kept the old basic words for animals (if not their meat -- the Anglo-Saxons raised the livestock that their French-speaking Norman masters dined upon), metals, cruder weapons and armor ("sword", "shield", and "helmet"), meteorological phenomena, and verbs of motion. After about 1400 many of the words that English speakers added to their vocabulary had been imported. Not until 1900 did people who knew little Latin (like aviators and computer programmers) coin technical words containing Anglo-Saxon words (like "take-off", "landing", "input", and "output").

[@sonjafruk8341]

Steven McBrien: you gave us pure LATIN words as examples of Norman French, look: "Suburb, alley, precinct, estate, boulevard, office, court, judge, jury, law, corporate, justiciary, legislature, executive, conference, parliament" Lat.: Suburbio, Alley, precinct, status, (...), officium, court, iudex, iudices, lex, corporatum, Justiciarius, legislativam, exsecutivam colloquium (...): - only boulevard and parliament could be Norman French words (although they are based on Latin) because they were invented after the fall of Roman Empire. Estate came from Lat. status, and is connected with "State" - very interesting, isn't it!. Often the ruling class gives us words we have to take and obey - today is the same situation - and often new words come with new technology: Croatian took (and adjusted) German words for automotive industry (Lat.Automotive industria) and English words for computers. In both situations authorities ordered people to use the translated terms, pushed them in documents, media, dictionaries etc. but people (folk) refused to obey and still use German and English terms. In some distant future linguists will say that folk used Croatian terms in these areas:-)

[@BGRANT777X]

If I'm going back in time I'm bringing laser guns and power armor so really understanding English will be their problem...

[@swishatweek1841]

Brandon G 😂😂😂😂

[@SkyerHorror]

Hahahahhahah. xD

[@mnbvcxz1597]

Y'all know butterfly effects... you'll vanish if you do that 🤣🤣

[@zammmerjammer]

Well, none of those exist yet. So your plan seems to involve going into the future first to steal some of their technology. Let me know how that works out...

[@normaninconnu3633]

Brandon G That's fine until you catch the Black Death and you realise you should've brought antibiotics with you.

[@AnonthonyMous]

Imagine how hard it will be for our descendants to understand our English 1,000 years from now, with all the acronyms and internet slang/shortcuts.