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please act like this title is a really clever old english pun i can't think of any (files.catbox.moe)

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[-] Rusty@lemmy.ca 43 points 11 months ago

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

[-] nicknonya 40 points 11 months ago

i suspect this funny tic toc may not be historically accurate

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months 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.

[-] sunbather@beehaw.org 15 points 11 months 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

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago

Where's the guy who speaks in thorns when you need him.

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 35 points 11 months ago

"Station of play, fifth of its variant" is poetry

[-] zloubida@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

I need parts one and two.

[-] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This ain't Old English, it's just fancier modern English. Nys þæt swa, ac ic cweðe on ðære Engliscan tungan.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Incredible.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Just use Robert's rules of order when you have an argument that makes everyone happier

[-] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

My goofy ass throws words like those into my vocab on accident 😅

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