@arumnatzorkhang: Replying to @Oublient how far back in time can a modern English speaker go and still be understood. #linguistics #language #LanguageLearning #TikTokLearningCampaign

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pablothickasso
Mtotheatothedoublet :
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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patrickheffernan56
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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zanegayestudios
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
dr.t_inc :
So it goes normal, Modern Scots, slightly French, then Arabic 🤣🤣🤣🤣
2025-09-12 23:46:38
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griffinsage
John Griffin :
so... not far. got it.
2025-09-13 05:38:04
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papaloko10
papaloko :
bro started speaking elvish.
2025-09-13 03:36:54
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geraldprime_
geraldprime_ :
Bro started speaking Chemistry
2025-09-15 15:04:28
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truckermelissa
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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srmilesauthor
SR Miles Reads & Writes :
We need the dates
2025-09-13 03:10:26
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ravennightingale7
Half An Unkindness 🆘🇺🇸 :
English, weird English, German, ??????
2025-09-13 07:59:31
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kai.rho
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
✨🌳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
GTA_doum :
Cancelling my time traveling, never realized I could not speak to anyone 😳
2025-09-15 16:08:03
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simonnyoung
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
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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carolnahigian64
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
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
cdog123467 :
Source… don’t worry about it
2025-09-30 05:00:54
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ghost.of.aqua
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.al
segun :
so how far back did you go???
2025-10-03 00:22:06
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glitch_the_code
Jimi_ :
The futher you go back , the more Germanic it sounds ..
2025-09-14 19:18:41
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torjohnson4
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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easternphilosophy
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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sparklepanda007
madamesparkle :
penkwe?💀
2025-09-14 22:39:35
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superbrownybear
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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