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While future English may adapt to potentially swaying cultural interactions, one contrivance that preserves our current expressions less than previous, not present in the Middle Ages: Recorded Media. This will have a considerable impact, little discussed, on the future preservation and acclimation of the language. Just a thought.

Why can't this guy pronounce modern English words

Would the Anglo-Saxonplace name ending -throp (as in Winthrop and Northrop?) be a variation of "thorp" = German

Thank you😂

Some years ago, I wanted to figure how English adjectives lost their endings and the nous lost grammatical gender. After the Norman invasion, the strong masculine adjectives won over the other forms, while the weak plural adjective won over the other forms. It left no endings in the singular and -an, then en, then just -e in the plural in Middle English. Eventually, the -e dropped out of adjectives without -e already. It left English alone with natural gender. It also explains why we use he, his and him as the singular of a collective noun. Everyone opens his book. I disapprove of using the plural in this incident, although it seems to have caught on.

That was really good, I actually understood the gist of two or three sentences lol

Wat Was Language Spoken Before 450 AD !

Wat Language Was Spoken Before 450 AD !

Now I really wish I paid better attention in English. I speak English fluently, it's my native tongue, but I did not enjoy English class in highschool. I also seem to be able to read Old English and understand it for the most part, but in order to write it down in my own original thought, or to speak it naturally to someone, I have to know the grammatical structure and general rules.....which I crapped the bed on in highschool lol. "Dang what the fæck is an adjective again?" 😂

I just found out I can often read sentences in Dutch, and I've never taken Dutch. So weird lol. Only text though. Speak it me and Im like : 🤷....🤷.....🤷 😂

I got here on a random internet rabbit hole started by a reddit doom scrolling session while I eat a salad...any who I actually found this really educational. Thanks!

Why does he pronounce the word English so differently from the word English

Ēalā, iċ háte Mladen.

0:02 leorningcnihtas sounds like learning knights.

I’d love to have seen more about the effects on grammar, not just loan words - just for example, the loss of gender, and the hybrid form of the verb “to be” mixing Old English and Old Norse forms. Nice video though, the influence of Old Norse is often ignored because it didn’t noticeably change formal written Old English

I’m 55 now, and have never been academic in the slightest… I struggle, and always have, with anything cerebral.. much to my surprise, this video came up in my YT recommendations and i was reminded of my interest (when I was about 14), in the language of the CAnterbury tales at school (thank you mr Mason for that… this amazing man made a class full of hideously behaved teenagers beg to be allowed to read ‘just one more’ chapter of a story that none of us would EVER have picked up left to our own devices )… your wonderful video is now going to lead me down a long and interesting rabbit hole of English language and place names I might have no qualifications from school or beyond, but YT gives me the chance to learn now and I do SO enjoy it… Subscribed !!

its so sad that almost all the resources i’ve been able to find for learning old english is grammar based and not input based, or something like how michel thomas taught :( I’m sure that no child who learned old english natively learned to say “accusative” and “genitive” before their first words and im frustrated that I now have to :////

St. Christopher = Drusus germanicus christianized as St. Paul.

This is simply wonderful. Thank you.

Brilliant video!

My favourite English place name is Giggleswick. Which means goose farm in modern English.

What language was more complex, grammaticly, old english or latin?

Excellent class! At first I was afraid I wouldn't be able to benefit from the charts due to the tiny letters - they're unfeasible to my poor eyesight - but when you started showing each item with bigger letters I was relieved:-) Thank you so much,I've subscribed to the channel giving the due thumbs up and sharing this awesome video!

I have shied away from reading the Lord of the Riings out of fear that is not naturally fantastic and archaic enough. But your lecture has made me want to reinvestigate Lord of the Rings to see if it is written in the heroic style of the Exodus translation you discussed.

It bothers me when comparison is made between Old and Middle English when Canterbury Tales is used as the example for Middle English. It *is* Middle English, but it's biased for comparison in 2 ways. 1, it's very LATE Middle English, so it's only about 100 years away from being Early Modern English, and 2, it is in the dialect of Middle English from which Modern English immediately descends. This makes it seem much more like Modern English than it should, and unfairly distances Old English as some alien tongue from another planet. How about using Dan Michel of Northgate's 'Ayenbite of Inwyt' as the example for Middle English instead, which is closer to the midpoint between the two periods (1390), and in a different dialect (Kentish), and you'll arrive at a very different conclusion. You'll see more of a continuity in the language, and less of an abrupt change, and fewer French loanwords. You're cherry-picking certain texts and words that only perpetuate the old-established narrative of the early English upper classes and how they wanted to be perceived by people on the continent.

Excellent! ❤

Enjoyable informative video! 😊

Excellent! 😂

Great lesson! 😊

Kudos to Jacob Grimm! 😂

Enjoyable lesson! Very well explained and illustrated! 😊

Fascinating. Kind of ties together the bits of the history of English which I already had an idea of. PS have you done a video of why Dutch people often speak uncannily good English? I'm told there's a connection through Friesian but I don't know how reliable that is.

Examples of mid-transition (i.e. halfway between Old and Middle) English: do any exist? I've tried using Internet search engines to no avail.

Fantastic work 🤝❤

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Still waiting on more videos.

Thank you, I'm pleased you were contacted, you make things easy to understand, and your enthusiasm for the subject, makes things come alive.

Fascinating. Musical notation': has anyone played it?

What about Middle East learning and intellectual import from the Byzantines ?

I just want to say that it's quite something to find barely anything on this channel on celtic Britain and its connections to celtic Europe, and so much about much more tenuous middle-eastern links. Nothing wrong about also going through little explored venues of History, but this is pure xenocentrism.

Loved it, thank you! It is interesting how these multilingual aspects reverberate in other parts of the Insular world after the 10th century. The Annals of Tigernach, from the 12th, had multilingual aspects in their origins as well, but the Latin was mixed with Middle Irish instead of Old English.

This is why pride is such a horrid thing. Thinking you're the best without proving it anymore will turn a region from good to horrid. The scientific papers from the middle east are basically zero now.

Okay, the synchronized gesturing is too cute, I have to watch this video now

Thank you so much for these videos, so interesting, and informative

Oh good grief. This is money well spent, the J.E.D.I council will be cock-a-hoop.

haha nobody likes mondays

What a fascinating series!