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BadBadJellyBeantoday at 4:50 PM1 replyview on HN

Around 1300 to 1400. Some words were harder. But English isn't my first language either. So I guess that's alright. I guess I'd be fine in the 1500 in England. At least language wise.


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Sharlintoday at 5:18 PM

In 1500 a lot of pronunciation would've been different too, it was in the middle of the Great Vowel Shift [1]. And of course while the UK is still (in)famous for its many accents and dialects, some nigh mutually unintelligible, the situation would've been even worse back then.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

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