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Nirmalrajah Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

History of English

How far should I go back in time that I meet and not be able to understand an "English speaker"?
  

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Can you understand everyone now, Nirmalrajah?
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Then don't go back too far. I imagine that Shakespearian English would daunt most of us.
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Yeah at least some of what Shakespeare wrote would make sense, but is there a period (when) when the English spoken was totally different from today? I mean like you wont even know that the person is speaking English
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You probably wouldn't recognize Chaucer's English, and King Alfred would sound like a German, I think.
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