Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

@BatElite that's partly the tales and partly the narrator - since most people were illiterate, tales like this were set up to be easy to be heard by several people at once, in perhaps a crowded room

something really cool is listening to the first few verses of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, which was written in Middle English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GihrWuysnrc

In English history, Old English is the language up to around ~1100 AD, Modern English is everything from Shakespeare onwards (1600s) and Middle English is the stuff in the middle

but when you first listen to it, it sounds so foreign and strange - you can still understand significant parts, so it's not a different *language*, but it is different

@Elizafox that's just how much languages change over time! language change is super interesting and has a lot of cool complexities - like English had the Great Vowel Shift, where (over the course of 200 years) every single long vowel changed to be a different sound

@softgoat whAT

@NicoleTheLizard they're so bad 99% of the time...

@softgoat I'm always thinking about morrowind

@Fenreliania !!!

*meows, but very serious*

@Tarale ooo yum

*shatters into a million triangles*

@Concerned_Catgirl oh god someone I met the other day kept saying "normal people" while talking with the person next to me about how difficult it was to remember my pronouns