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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

This ain't Old English, it's just fancier modern English. Nys þæt swa, ac ic cweðe on ðære Engliscan tungan.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Just use Robert's rules of order when you have an argument that makes everyone happier

[–] [email protected] 39 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

I'm not a linguist, but isn't that Early Modern English, not Old English?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 20 hours ago

i suspect this funny tic toc may not be historically accurate

[–] [email protected] 18 points 20 hours ago

It's not even early modern English. Shakespeare is Early Modern English, and takes more effort to understand than this does. This just uses words and phrases that have been unfashionable for one or two hundred years, and were generally posher than most people used even when they were in vogue.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

this is pretty much just regular modern english with some chronolectal terms and jocular genitive constructions thrown in

"this station of play, fifth of its variant" is pretty funny though

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

Where's the guy who speaks in thorns when you need him.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 23 hours ago

"Station of play, fifth of its variant" is poetry

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

My goofy ass throws words like those into my vocab on accident 😅

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

I need parts one and two.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago

Incredible.