deadcatwithaflamethrower:

einarshadow:

redrowan:

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

Reblogging for William the Kool-Aid Man.

you wrote some posts about old english so i thought you will like this… @deadcatwithaflamethrower

That’s 1500s Middle English. That’s cheating. For true incomprehensibility, you need to grab passages from the 1100s, when everyone is trying to figure out how to communicate between franceis and West Saxon (Old English).