@arumnatzorkhang: Replying to @Oublient how far back in time can a modern English speaker go and still be understood. #linguistics #language #LanguageLearning #TikTokLearningCampaign
I speak American so I think they would understand me if I spoke loudly enough
2025-09-13 13:21:35
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Paddy Heffernan :
The great Vowel shift. We could understand Shakespeare, but Shakespeare could not understand Chaucer.
2025-09-14 06:34:35
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Zane Gaye Studios :
did ben Franklin & george Washington have British accents? when does the American accent(s) begin?
2025-09-13 05:55:03
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dr.t_inc :
So it goes normal, Modern Scots, slightly French, then Arabic 🤣🤣🤣🤣
2025-09-12 23:46:38
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John Griffin :
so... not far. got it.
2025-09-13 05:38:04
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papaloko :
bro started speaking elvish.
2025-09-13 03:36:54
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geraldprime_ :
Bro started speaking Chemistry
2025-09-15 15:04:28
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Black Rainbow :
it's like at a certain point you can hear the mess of Latin, german, and Norwegian all mixed together
2025-09-13 02:49:03
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SR Miles Reads & Writes :
We need the dates
2025-09-13 03:10:26
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Half An Unkindness 🆘🇺🇸 :
English, weird English, German, ??????
2025-09-13 07:59:31
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Chi.Rho :
Seems like if you speak English, Latin, German and French you can go pretty far back.
2025-09-12 23:07:47
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✨🌳Clara Moth✨🎶 :
As an English and German speaker I’m convinced I’ll make it longer than those who only speak English. If I get a lottle time to adjust I can at least understand Middle English
2025-09-13 09:19:22
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GTA_doum :
Cancelling my time traveling, never realized I could not speak to anyone 😳
2025-09-15 16:08:03
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Simon Young :
When I was studying law I had to read a case and didn’t read the date. I thought the judge was drunk but checked the date, it was from the 1700s.
2025-09-13 11:31:06
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rjl89 :
Another factor is that we're very used to different accents now. If you go back 1000 years, even if you understood them perfectly, they may not understand you because they have no practice listening to accents from outside their own town.
2025-09-13 08:15:44
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user392965820474 :
fascinating! HOW DO i say 'i love you" in Maltese? carol Detroit-- carolNahigian64@gmail
2026-03-14 01:33:33
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VariousCrap :
This is really cool. I just wish you would have put the years each version was spoken so I could know that while listening. Still, very cool.
2025-09-13 00:33:01
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cdog123467 :
Source… don’t worry about it
2025-09-30 05:00:54
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Aqua :
The last one is pretty close to lithuanian. Makes sense, since it’s the closest language to proto-indo european
2025-09-16 13:10:41
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segun :
so how far back did you go???
2025-10-03 00:22:06
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Jimi_ :
The futher you go back , the more Germanic it sounds ..
2025-09-14 19:18:41
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TorJohnson :
It’s wild. I speak German and Dutch as second languages and so interesting how quickly English starts to sound like sort of Dutch.
2025-09-13 02:19:04
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The Eastern Philosophy :
I took an Old English class in college and it was literally a completely foreign language.
2025-09-16 05:41:51
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madamesparkle :
penkwe?💀
2025-09-14 22:39:35
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Raj Gill :
middle English also depends on the dialect, I find Chaucer much easier to understand than Sir Gawain which is in the North West Midlands dialect
2025-09-14 10:10:35
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