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[-] Rusty@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 week ago

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

[-] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 1 week ago

i suspect this funny tic toc may not be historically accurate

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week 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.

[-] sunbather@beehaw.org 15 points 1 week 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

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

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

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 week ago

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

[-] zloubida@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I need parts one and two.

[-] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Incredible.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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

[-] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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

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