• Rusty@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    I’m not a linguist, but isn’t that Early Modern English, not Old English?

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      4 days ago

      It’s not even early modern English. Shakespeare is Early Modern English, and takes more effort to understand than this does. This just uses words and phrases that have been unfashionable for one or two hundred years, and were generally posher than most people used even when they were in vogue.

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      5 days ago

      this is pretty much just regular modern english with some chronolectal terms and jocular genitive constructions thrown in

      “this station of play, fifth of its variant” is pretty funny though