How does Sup Forums feel about Old English?

How does Sup Forums feel about Old English?

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Do any of you Anglos understand what this says?

Better than that modern english-norman greek dialect you call "english"

I doubt it

Figures, since I would have discerned a single word at least.
Ah, there is under and "funden" and in.
Well well..

No but I recognize what this says from school. It is from Beowulf. I'd like to learn to read one day.

No. It's closer to modern German than English.

Here's a reading of some bible verses in Old English.

youtube.com/watch?v=XOfvCN_F5cg

I don't know how to read that, but I'd like to and find it interesting

A language fit for an orc, wouldn't you say?

No, even if you had studied beowulf extensively, you wouldn't be able to understand it fully. The furthest back a modern English speaker can go and understand is mid to late Middle English.
Mid-Middle English excerpt:

Modern English, yes

Old English is quite pleasant, both to read and listen to.

i can understand it

>hwut? we gardena

Ancient lagnuages sound very good EXCEPT Old Chinese which must have sounded fucking horrific.

How does Koine Greek compare to modern Greek?

Can you pick up an "original" bible, read, and fully understand it?

>Modern English, yes

Well modern English can't be that bad to listen to considering English language films and television content is popular worldwide and more importantly so is American and British music.

OHHH, you're concerned about the mutt meme now that you're implicated. Nice try, english is a mutt language because you let the Normans in.

This was very beautiful to read for me. English is a lovely language.

>How does Koine Greek compare to modern Greek?
More complex, a bit wierder syntax and antiquated vocabulary, but you can understand a lot from the context. If you are a bit educated you can udnerstand it completely. More ancient versions require training but You can at least discern what Thucydides or Herodotus is saying (especially the latter since he writes in pure Ionic) even if you don't study extensively. Even in Homer you will understand a lot of the words without getting the context most of the time.
So we have:
>Can you pick up an "original" bible?
Yes
> read,
Absolutely although the pronounciation won't be accurate as there were some sound changes.
>and fully understand it?
The basic gist generally but it is dependent on education.

I always write piDgeon and will never stop doing it

Stop it.

wtf? I can't understand shit

We can understand Portuguese from back in the 1200's

There's a neat podcast called "History of English Podcast" that combines English history and etymology and uses events to explain the origin of words and pronunciation in English.

how did you just have that image on hand

lemme try:
what! we walk in doingday
landking dream virgin
who that noblemen or strangers
often shall ? harm threats


kek.

delet this immediately

My ancestors :)

Pretty cool. Seems like weird blend of celtic, germanic and french

only certain words. The language changed pretty quickly. I goes from unintelligible to nearly 100% intelligible in a couple hundred years. This is middle english: youtube.com/watch?v=e0ybnLRf3gU

>youtube.com/watch?v=e0ybnLRf3gU
kek, what a meme
>he doesn't prounce chirche as "sjirsje"
>he doesn't pronounce housebondes as "huszbnde"

this is HOW you say it vocaroo.com/i/s12xWSsZHTqm

Fuck the fr*Nch for ruining Old English.

This is probably closer to Swedish
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