It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post.
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It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post. Read it and notice where you start to struggle. Notice where you give up entirely.
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
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It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post. Read it and notice where you start to struggle. Notice where you give up entirely.
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
@yogthos Fun post. I notice the dialect shifts to West Saxon near the end.
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It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post. Read it and notice where you start to struggle. Notice where you give up entirely.
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
@yogthos I was able to manage until 1500. After that it was like reading a foreign language.
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It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post. Read it and notice where you start to struggle. Notice where you give up entirely.
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
@yogthos fantastic one. enlightening as well as sobering experiment.
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@yogthos I was able to manage until 1500. After that it was like reading a foreign language.
@samebchase I could still kinda make it out by 1400, but 1200 was where I hit a wall, it's like a whole different language all of a sudden
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It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post. Read it and notice where you start to struggle. Notice where you give up entirely.
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
@yogthos
1300 was like OK it takes time to map the letters, and then to read the word fast out loud to make out some sense, but 1200 totally killed me: I thought wait is there a second wolf now? Like, dude you literally just saw her and she's already a "uuif"? Cringe -
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It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post. Read it and notice where you start to struggle. Notice where you give up entirely.
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
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@david @yogthos yeah, beyond that I recognized a few words, but some of those I recognized from the time when I played a medieval nun on the internet :D
(I hand copied a text in Old English of which I had read a translation, so I had a vague idea of what was happening, but I couldn't exactly understand what I was copying in each individual sentence)
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@DenOfEarth @hannah The remainder, however, remains an enigma.
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@scatterkeir @hannah
That explains much of your timeline
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@georgepenney ngl, I'm most of the way to 40 and you might see me employing the starfish move at pedestrian lights come spring
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I am thinking out loud in prep for my talk. And I should unpack this in a blogpost because the following observation is a DENSE one.
One thing that really became clear to me is that the topology of power of Bluesky vs the Fediverse does really matter, and id checks makes this *really* clear.
You can put a graph of
Discord -- Bluesky -- The greater ATmosphere -- the Fediverse -- Spritely's tech (esp Brassica Chat)
The power distribution of this stuff is going to matter a lot for regulatory moats
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@DenOfEarth @hannah hmm i dunno i'd rather take my chances with a dubious 'psychiatrist'
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@scatterkeir @hannah
Well that seems better than the alternative?
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@dillyd Ugh, I didn't know this could be menopause! I get these too. Sometimes I need to take a bath to warm up again.
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@DenOfEarth @hannah horrifically it looks like someone is being subjected to an improv workshop of some kind
