Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌃🏙️ Friday, August 9, 2024

• Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes. The stuff of dinner table conversation in the family. My mum did her masters degree on Old English and Old Norse. Dad spoke fluent cockney, english and lowland scots depending on context. Tell me about it.

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  • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Naw. Wish I could invite your Dad to dinner.

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    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      More than 20 years too late for that as he passed in 2003. Born in 1911. Still miss him.

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Keep talking. I’m learning.

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Between 1400 and 1700, English went through a major vowel shift that changed the way words were pronounced. The pronunciation of Middle English long vowels changed into how we pronounce them today/has affected English worldwide, and well as consotant changes (silent letters come from this, knife used have the k pronounced, and this can actually still be heard in German as well. Kneipe, for eg, is pronounced with the k).

    Example, in Middle English the word “house” was pronounced hu:s “hoos”. With the Great Vowel Shift it changed to haʊs “howse”.

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    • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I love Middle English. It can look like gibberish at first, but pretend to be drunk & Scottish 98% of it works. The other words are probably Danish.

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      • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        My favourite pic displaying the evolution. Middle English is still almost parsable, but old english is basically old German haha

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    • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s a pretty American argument…

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      • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Bruh 😂😂😂💀

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