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

• 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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      • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I love side by side versions like those! (I did send you that book link?) it makes the changes and similarities so obvious 😺 language is fun.

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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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