systlin:beautifultoastdream:denchgang:bluecaptions:How English has changed in the past 1000 years.th
systlin:beautifultoastdream:denchgang:bluecaptions:How English has changed in the past 1000 years.the big mans a lad i have fuck all, he lets me have a kip in a field he showed me a pond I think my favorite part is how the first three are totally comprehensible to a modern reader, and then the fourth one is just “Wait, what?” You can practically see where William the Conqueror came crashing into linguistic history like the Kool-Aid Man, hollering about French grammar and the letter Q.^ I FUCKIN SPIT MY DRINK UP -- source link
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