This short story, written in older and older English as it goes on, rightly went viral!
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This short story, written in older and older English as it goes on, rightly went viral!
How far can you understand it?
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english#_
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This short story, written in older and older English as it goes on, rightly went viral!
How far can you understand it?
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english#_
And now, for extra comprehension challenge, there’s Beowulf rendered in Gen Z English
“There was Shield Sheafson, canceler of many tribes,
A high-key shredder of mead benches, flexing all over foes.
This dragger of the hall-troops had come far.
A smol bean to start with, he would glow up hard later on
As his powers got fire af and his rizz went viral.” -
And now, for extra comprehension challenge, there’s Beowulf rendered in Gen Z English
“There was Shield Sheafson, canceler of many tribes,
A high-key shredder of mead benches, flexing all over foes.
This dragger of the hall-troops had come far.
A smol bean to start with, he would glow up hard later on
As his powers got fire af and his rizz went viral.”As someone who really only "got" #Shakespeare after watching #BazLuhrmann 's #Romeoandjuliet I endorse this. (really wish he'd do more).
Whether its keeping the language but juxtaposing it to modern setting or modernizing the lingo like this.
Like the "biting your thumb" - "Ohhhh, I get it. Bro is _calling him OUT_." -
And now, for extra comprehension challenge, there’s Beowulf rendered in Gen Z English
“There was Shield Sheafson, canceler of many tribes,
A high-key shredder of mead benches, flexing all over foes.
This dragger of the hall-troops had come far.
A smol bean to start with, he would glow up hard later on
As his powers got fire af and his rizz went viral.”@Akshay 🤮
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@AlexanderVI @Akshay indeed. I could stan this frood translating a few other choice wurx.
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@AlexanderVI @Akshay indeed. I could stan this frood translating a few other choice wurx.
@tezoatlipoca @AlexanderVI You're both dead to me now. /s
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This short story, written in older and older English as it goes on, rightly went viral!
How far can you understand it?
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english#_
@Akshay Fascinating!
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And now, for extra comprehension challenge, there’s Beowulf rendered in Gen Z English
“There was Shield Sheafson, canceler of many tribes,
A high-key shredder of mead benches, flexing all over foes.
This dragger of the hall-troops had come far.
A smol bean to start with, he would glow up hard later on
As his powers got fire af and his rizz went viral.”@Akshay Just got a 15-year-old to read this out loud and can confirm it absolutely slaps.
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@Akshay Just got a 15-year-old to read this out loud and can confirm it absolutely slaps.
Ha! Great idea!
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And now, for extra comprehension challenge, there’s Beowulf rendered in Gen Z English
“There was Shield Sheafson, canceler of many tribes,
A high-key shredder of mead benches, flexing all over foes.
This dragger of the hall-troops had come far.
A smol bean to start with, he would glow up hard later on
As his powers got fire af and his rizz went viral.”@Akshay That is sooooo wrong....
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