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trueismyworktoday at 7:26 PM3 repliesview on HN

I am Indian. I read easily to 1400. But then 1300 is suddenly difficult to read


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sokolstoday at 8:57 PM

Albanian, managed to understand till 1300. Then it gets more germanic i think, though I speak a bit of German as well, the characters make it a bit difficult to parse.

“Swie!” is interesting, I understood it somehow naturally. In Gheg Albanian we say “Shuj!”, which means “Be silent!”.

riffrafftoday at 7:52 PM

Italian here, and it was the same for me, the language feels very different by 1300.

Which is interesting cause 1200 italian[0] seems pretty readable by everyone who can read italian (and likely every other romance language), you have to go further back to have a shift.

[0] E.g. Saint Francis' Canticle of the Sun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canticle_of_the_Sun

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Gander5739today at 7:51 PM

I speak English natively. I read to 1400 without difficulty, read 1400 and 1300 with some sruggle, and found beyond that it was largely unintelligible; I can understand maybe 1 in 3 words.