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Very entertaining. I’m totally lost around 1400. I don’t even recognize 1200 as English lol.
Very entertaining. I’m totally lost around 1400. I don’t even recognize 1200 as English lol.
That’s exactly what’s happening. If you read the author’s explanation, around 1250 is when English starts picking the up the Latin and French loan words that modern English speakers are used to.
English is a Germanic language. So, without the loan words, it is very much more like German.