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[A dog is walked by an old lady wrapped in a blanket siting in a wheelchair] Old Lady: A doggo! [Close up of the old lady’s happy, yet not all there expression] Old Lady: A heccin good pupper. [A Nurse rushes to the Old Lady’s chair. The dog stairs at the Old Lady, the owner off screen] Old Lady: 13/10 good boi. Dog Owner: huh? [The nurse wheels the Old Lady away] Nurse: Don’t worry no one understands her- Old Lady: Could be a fren.

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      22 hours ago

      Of course!

      Here’s the start of a really good series, all in normal English:

      Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licóur Of which vertú engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne, And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open ye, So priketh hem Natúre in hir corages, Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes, To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes; And specially, from every shires ende Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende, The hooly blisful martir for to see, That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke

      • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        11 hours ago

        Ugh, this gives me PTSD from junior year high school English class, we had to memorize & recite that Chaucer’s Canterbury tales 🤮

      • kalpol@lemmy.ca
        5·
        21 hours ago

        Middle English, yeah, that’s Chaucer from 700 years ago. Hearing someone read this is a treat, though. It is an amazingly musical language, I feel much more so than Modern English.

        • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          20 hours ago

          To be fair, survival bias. This is the poetry that was so beautiful and engaging it was repeated and preserved for 500+ years. I’m sure there were vassals trading japes in Middle English who didn’t rise above the erudition and imagery of your average teenage wastrel shooting the shit in Modern English.

          And there is still plenty of good poetry being created, which I can’t always appreciate fully because I don’t get the references or even some of the words. Which will last? Let’s check back in 500 years.

    • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      23 hours ago

      This is just translated to today’s standard English. Future English obviously will become a tonal language, where all expression is based on different intonations of the word “skibidi”.