This is what Old English looked like.(5th century–12th century)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English
>>527950321good thing they've been speaking american since 1783.
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>>527950321Middle English is best English.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voEd4paHQFk
>>527950321Almost indistinguishable from old Dutch
>>527951143Why? Old English had a richer more complex grammar. The entire Indo-European language family has been getting simpler and dumber ever since Proto-Indo-European, more so in the West than in the East.
>>527950321very similar to modern norwegian. how is this politics
>>527951143Sneed
>>527951598Cope
>>527950321Hwaet, my nigga
>>527951331More complex how? English is incredibly complex and subtle. You can use words poetically or to paint pictures that create inlaid metaphors. The way you saw something, the rhythm you say it, the imagery you evoke, it's unsurpassed. Compare to Japanese for example. 1/3 of that language is english loan words, and another 1/3 is just random onomotopia sounds like "boom!" "bang!" "crash!!" The language is often just saying "chotto matte" over and over and hoping they pick up your context.
>>527952017>EnglishGet better at making a point.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxOJ4p8e7NQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_gnZj7gbnQ
>>527952301I was contrasting Old English and Middle English, and you come in here talking about ENGLISH. Get better at arguing.
>>527952017kek.i've said this to people, and they get really mad and insist that japanese (spoken) is more expressive than english. i'm sorry, it's just not true; even japanese who learn english will say they're shocked at the number of synonyms in english that have subtly different meanings.it's often difficult to know precisely how to translate japanese to english because a lot of what they say is so deliberately vague, or even purposefully left half unsaid.
>>527950321this is dutch.i can just read it and its the same words
>>527952465>japanese is hard to translate>but it's super simple guise!!
>>527952017>Compare to Japanese for example. 1/3 of that language is english loan wordsHow much of the english language is loanwords? 2/3rds?
>>527952465I started talking about richer more complex grammar. You've diverged into synonyms, which have nothing to do with grammar.
>>527951598Low thread, only "sneed" from bong bot.
>>527950374clufweart please
>>527951233When modern Dutch speak English, their accent is like they're from the NW. The Dutch are the proto-norf man.
>>5279530410%Any word that English claims instantly becomes an English word.
>>527953131>I started talking about richer more complex grammarCan you elaborate on this?As an native English speaker, the only think I can think of as unique about our grammar is the past perfect tense (apologies if I'm not getting the terminology correct, I think you'll know what I mean)
>>527952017Here's an idea. How about you amerifarts learn phonics too, then you'll be able to spell. The average mutt thinks the singular of you is you and the plural of got is gotten. Just lazy.
>>527953131English grammar is not complex, it's a trainwreck of Germanic and Romance influences, and its very special one-and-a-half grammatical case. The broken English grammar is also the direct reason for the pronouns mental illness that they are trying to force onto the rest of the world, because they just have to have a pronoun for everything because every word can be nearly fucking everything grammatically - noun, verb, adjective, singular, plural, masculine, feminine, whatever - if you don't explicitly tell the recipient what it is.In civilized languages we have grammar for that. In English you just have one square hole for all the pegs. >t. PolakWaiting for a Finnbro to come swinging his massive 11 cases long linguistic dick.
>>527951331Modern English has some of the highest information rate of any spoken language, despite being spoken more slowly than average. Tied roughly with French (although French relies a bit on faster speech so it's not as efficient in information density per syllable, but it ends up at around the same bit rate). They're objectively better than most other languages. The average human language is around 39 bits per second, but English (and French) average around 45 bits per second.
>>527953611It literally the opposite. If any word sounds similar to and English word, the presumption in modernity is that it was the English who stole the word, despite England and the English having the longest continuous recorded history. English hate and seethe is all the rage these days and it rare to find a foreigner who doesn't openly desire that we go extinct entirely.
>>527953864>English hate and seethe is all the rage these daysThat's certainly true.It's well that non-english-speakers are irrelevant.
>>527950321You know it wouldn't seem so alien if it was spelled with a modern script. If you hear it spoken slowly you can reverse engineer it.
>>527953718Finnish has 15 cases. But I agree about it being ridiculously too many. Normal languages can do with just 14.
>>527951331>simplerThat increases data throughput>dumberAn emotive judgement that can be ignored
>>527952017>1/3 of that language is english loan wordsThe Japanese lexicon is about 10% gairaigo (mostly English but not entirely). It is, however, about 60% Sinitic>>527951331>complexity is when your grammar is synthetic and simplicity is when your grammar is analyticInfamous midwit take
>>527953668Old English had richer more complex grammar than Middle English, which had richer more complex grammar than Modern English. Watch these videos >>527952167 For example now it's "you are" for both singular and plural, but up until the 18th century or something it was "thou art" for singular. English used to have tons of these things, which have been eroded and simplified.
>>527953718Learn to read. I said Old English had a richer more complex grammar than Middle English. This thread is about OLD ENGLISH. I linked a wikipedia article, click it.
fucking coombrained fuckwits this entire site, never ever an interesting discussion
>>527950321If you read it in the accent of the Swedish Chef it makes sense.
>>527953611>0%Yes, because they had to steal each word twice just in case, being from penal colony you should know a thing or two about stealing.
>>527953959Finnish and Turkish are agglutinative languages, Polish is fusional, you can't compare the number of cases between an agglutinative language and a fusional language because these cases work quite differently.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxOJ4p8e7NQ&t=567s
>>527953718>>527953786This exactly proves my point here >>527953864The natural assumption is to credit german grammar or the french despite their languages being considerably younger and their nations being of a totally different construct by the time old English was already written and England was established. >the french say le handburger>therefore handburger is clearly a french word that the English stoleIt makes no fucking sense until you understand how foreigners express their hatred towards us; deny our works and inventions, reduce our culture and style to commonplace, imply our blessings were not of our toil or deserved.
>>527952557Time's effect on language change is overstated; if language is changing a lot then that's a symptom that the population has been invaded.
>>527954390You're such a fucking retard.
>>527951233*Almost indistinguishable from germanThe english and dutch are both dissimilated germans.
>>527954375I know. You missed the brotherly nudge joke.
Doggerland = AtlantisSubmerged during a comet impact in the north sea around 10k years ago.
>>527951143mayster ofe popets, ich pulle yowir strengestwesten yowir minde, smashen yowir dremsyeah, that works pretty good
>>527954494There it is. The socially fashionable seethe.
Old English is also called Anglo-Saxon. It has richer more complex grammar than Modern English.https://annas-archive.li/md5/0a253080d8e3dac64d9f7909933b747ahttps://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.247480https://annas-archive.li/md5/97e9b92ff0be19f6e89a6b5cbacaef91
>>527950321Comfy illustrations. Love the braided portals!
>>527955699>richer more complex grammar than Modern English.Does that help with communication?Most languages seem to have more complex grammar than Modern English, yet they cannot match the subtlety of English.
>>527954375>agglutinative languages
>>527953549Kek, can't say it doesn't make sense
blame the french for 1066
>>527950321(eala) Ic hâte leofwin.while i think hâte sounds like "hatte" (had) its probably closer to heiße (to declare a name)Ich heiße Anon (Ic hâte Anon)
>>527953690You've confused the hell out of me, what is the singular of you if not you and what is the plural of got? Is there one?
>>527956084>Does that help with communication?yes>yet they cannot match the subtlety of Englishwronghttps://warosu.org/lit/thread/24877858#p24878747https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/524366848
Reads more like german than modern english. Goes to show how much the anglos got linguistically cucked by the Normans.
>>527955759It's the first book here >>527955699, it's a bit dark so I lightened up the picture before posting it, that's why it looks different, but it's that exact file.
>>527956439*german dialect, mind you, not high german
>>5279563908 lines (plus 2 words) vs 10.5 linesSo much for the Germanic Efficiency
I wouldn't mind if we spoke Dark Souls English.
>>527956439>>527956462Es ist ja schließlich auch eine germanische Sprache.Die Drecksanglos mussten ja unbedingt überall französisch reinprügeln um sich von den Barbaren zu distanzieren>Beverage = französisch>Drink = germanisch
>>527956103fuck off
>>527953690The West Virginia accent is the closest modern equivalent to Shakespearean English.
>>527952557William the Conqueror introduced significant French influence to the English language.Early English was much more German.
>>527952465From my experience with japanese movies, the japanese express themselves mostly with context sensitive silence, stares and filler words
Reminder that Americans have the original British accents before they turned into evil Jew loving industrial revolution soul and life-sucking parasites
>>527956487I put colored highlights for a reason. You paid no attention to the highlights and only to the number of lines.
>>527956084>match the subtlety of English.This depends on who is speaking and, equally importantly, the audience.
>>527956307The singular of you is thou. Referring to an individual in the singular with a pointing finger was and is considered vulgar, hence the standard of using you. Americans don't read classical English or study form, so they take you as the singular and thus, have to invent a plural which they use as a contraction of >all of youOr >you, all; yah'aallllThe present continuous form of got is got, because the tense is implicit from the preposition and in form, to gain something is presumed as a continuous action unless otherwise stated. However this isolates the word, got, as a personal effect. With such a limited lexicon, Americans are will replace tensal verbs such as aquire, obtain, buy, use, consume, recieve et al, with the word got, but without a standard verb tense, they say>gottento imply a present continuous state that was instigated in the past. Almost every example use of the word gotten, is simply because the speaker, as well as being american, doesn't know of a more appropriate verb.
>>527956276Anon ist eine Schwuchtel
>>527950321that's cool. its like my mind started to decode it as I went along
>>527956671>>527956770Fabricated amerifart history, crafted by jewish academics who have devoted years to the effort of corrupting and erasing English history. Finnish distain for Anglos is well documented through their historical actions as a group.
>>527951331English is literally THE most information dense language on the planet. Thank God we don't speak clicky clicky beowulf garbage anymore like you retards.
>>527958815Don't know what you're talking about, Modern English grammar is poor.
The OP picture is from the first of these three books:>>527955699I also found this website which has some more info, including audio files for the book:https://www.tha-engliscan-gesithas.org.uk/written-and-spoken-old-english/learn-old-english-with-leofwin/Here's a textbook for Modern Icelandic, which has a lot in common with Old English and Old Norse:https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=136528773
>>527950321Very easy to read if you know any germanic language
>>527958815Poland is best
>>527959159you're a fucking idiot. Get raped by a shitskin, Sven
>>527950321This just looks like frisia meets danish (because it is!)https://youtu.be/OeC1yAaWG34?si=pLy4rnu0L-BNGepI (modern day frisian speaks to old english man)
>>527959424Shlomo
>>527951233No such thing as old dutch its frisian, dont bring your hollander spanish rape baby kike genes into this you tikkie faggots
>>527956206always do
>>527950321Germanic languages are an abomination, English is mostly French words and every single place where English differs from French, English is worse Speaking English as a native French speaker genuinely feels like you’re speaking French Ebonics
>>527951781He didn’t speak a single word of English he called himself Guillaume and only spoke FrenchWilliam longshanks was the first English king who could speak English, every king before that spoke only french
>>527950321and then we told them how to speak
>>527956276'heißen' is 'heten' in Dutch, which would be pronounced 'haten' in English
Two other textbooks I found today.An Invitation to Portuguesehttps://annas-archive.li/md5/92518052642022924fbbdc82fe391500https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf8XN5kNFkhcDwAdew0OCwL1d-m7skdI5An Invitation to Russianhttps://annas-archive.li/md5/053ac45be095d8fcb5a3028d034b57acAlso, I read this book https://archive.org/details/storiesfromital00panigoog/page/n75/mode/2upthat lead me to this bookhttps://annas-archive.li/md5/b9dbff287043cf38e8a2209948284cf1I only read "day one, second story", which he summarizes herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkzfrof44YIt's about a guy who tries to convert a Jew to Christianity. The Jew travels from France to Rome, sees the degenerate clergy, and concludes that because the church is growing in spite of this it must be the true religion. The book is originally in Italian and is from the 14th century.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DecameronHere's a textbook for Latin, in Portuguese.https://archive.org/details/paulo-roacutenai-curso-basico-de-latim-gradus-primuslearn Yiddishhttps://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/language-literature-culture/learn-yiddish-alphabet/practice-reading-yiddish
>>527950321>at this time Indians were inventing modern mathematics and the system we use today along with basic calculus
>>527950321some differences to Plattdeutsch (Low Saxon)>>527959421>brrrzzzzz tczechsbiatsc
>>527952017English is spaghetti code: the language. Not even good spaghetti code. The kind of code built by someone googling stuff that other people did and asking chatgpt Johnson to fix it.
>>527960137I posted the wrong url for the video, this is the right onehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkzfrof44Ys
