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How far back in time can you understand English? This site goes back by centuries allowing you to test yourself. (www.deadlanguagesociety.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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[–] 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

About to 1400, then it starts to look more like Dutch or something. A few hundred years more and it starts to look like Danish or something. I bet it's harder to understand verbally.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Yeah, I said it looked like Dutch in the 1300 and before period. Maybe that's a bias because I can speak danish (okay, anyway) but dutch is like a random bunch of nonsense to me

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