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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
How far back in time can you understand English?
It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post.
"... as his post goes on, his language gets older. A hundred years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words, and his attitude gets older too, as the blogger’s voice is replaced by that of a Georgian diarist, an Elizabethan pamphleteer, a medieval chronicler."
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
Huh.
#TIL: Some other persons pet peeve is that it is »have another think coming« not »have another thing coming« (if you think this).
Oddly, i seem to have read over the »k« in not-»thing«-after-all a few times in some books.
Also, the graphs are somewhat interesting: The phrase became common only recently, and in British English »think« is still clearly ahead of »thing«.
Huh.
#TIL: Some other persons pet peeve is that it is »have another think coming« not »have another thing coming« (if you think this).
Oddly, i seem to have read over the »k« in not-»thing«-after-all a few times in some books.
Also, the graphs are somewhat interesting: The phrase became common only recently, and in British English »think« is still clearly ahead of »thing«.
How far back in time can you understand English?
It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post.
"... as his post goes on, his language gets older. A hundred years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words, and his attitude gets older too, as the blogger’s voice is replaced by that of a Georgian diarist, an Elizabethan pamphleteer, a medieval chronicler."
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
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
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Walkie-talkie is such a silly name for an object. Imagine if we let that person name other things: sitty-watchy (a telly), brainie-rottie (internet), sittie-travelie (train), drinkie-chokie (boba tea but only when white people drink it for the first time), lickie-freezie (ice-cream)
On International Mother Language Day, we celebrate the rich linguistic and cultural diversity that defines our Union, as well as the importance of protecting and promoting mother tongues across Europe.
The EU is home to:
🌍 24 official languages
🎉 60 regional or minority languages spoken by 40 million people
Multilingualism is a founding principle of our Union and part of what makes our continent so vibrant.
This diversity is our strength.
It's funny, that you post this in #English and solely in English. Which is the official language only in two member nations, #Irelande and #Malta, and even there second to #Irish and #Maltese.
I know, that my #Basque and #Catalan friends will not be happy: But how about declaring #Spanish THE official language of the #EU? It is the second largest language in number of native speakers after #Mandarin, and it's nine times the native speakers of English in the EU.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Walkie-talkie is such a silly name for an object. Imagine if we let that person name other things: sitty-watchy (a telly), brainie-rottie (internet), sittie-travelie (train), drinkie-chokie (boba tea but only when white people drink it for the first time), lickie-freezie (ice-cream)
#LGBTQ English #Wikipedia deletion alert
Could you save this LGBTQ related #English Wikipedia article from deletion?
Mini McGuinness
* Fictional character from Skins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_McGuinness
Discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Mini_McGuinness
#LGBTQ English #Wikipedia deletion alert
Could you save this LGBTQ related #English Wikipedia article from deletion?
Mini McGuinness
* Fictional character from Skins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_McGuinness
Discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Mini_McGuinness
Huh.
Not every word marked as misspelling in the text is a scan-o or the name of some new character.
Sometimes it is words Wiktionary has an entry for:
aquaintance
Misspelling of acquaintance. 😳
Huh.
Not every word marked as misspelling in the text is a scan-o or the name of some new character.
Sometimes it is words Wiktionary has an entry for:
aquaintance
Misspelling of acquaintance. 😳
