#historyoflanguage — Public Fediverse posts
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Super Fun für Sprach-Nerds, Weird Fiction-Fans und alle, die gerne neue Sachen lernen: Diese Geschichte wird jeden Absatz 100 Jahre älter (& gruseliger), am Schluss sind wir um 1.000 sprachlich angelangt. Bis wann könnt Ihr verstehen, was da steht? Danach erklärt ein Sprachhistoriker die Veränderungen, die ihr da rückwärts mitgemacht habt.
#linguistics #historyoflanguage #language #literature #learning
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
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The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/history-of-letter-yogh
#HackerNews #strangestletter #yogh #historyoflanguage #linguistics #alphabet
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TIL that "went" is the past tense of "wend".
#Linguistics #Grammar #TodayILearned #EnglishGrammar #HistoryOfLanguage
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500-year-old manuscript contains earliest known use of the “F-word” - Enlarge / "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!" Monty Python' and the ... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1666058 #bannatynemanuscript #historyoflanguage #historyofscotland #gaming&culture #profanity #flyting #history