systlin: “ beautifultoastdream: “ denchgang: “ bluecaptions: “ How English has changed in the past 1000 years. ” the big mans a lad i have fuck all, he lets me have a kip in a field he showed me a pond ” I think my favorite part is how the first...

systlin:

beautifultoastdream:

denchgang:

bluecaptions:

How English has changed in the past 1000 years.

the big mans a lad i have fuck all, he lets me have a kip in a field he showed me a pond 

I think my favorite part is how the first three are totally comprehensible to a modern reader, and then the fourth one is just “Wait, what?” You can practically see where William the Conqueror came crashing into linguistic history like the Kool-Aid Man, hollering about French grammar and the letter Q.

^ I FUCKIN SPIT MY DRINK UP

1 year ago / 246860 
via: the-space-enby
src: bluecaptions
  1. shyest-violet reblogged this from this-too-too-sullied-flesh
  2. sapientia-et-doctrina reblogged this from this-too-too-sullied-flesh
  3. supernaturalswimmer reblogged this from that-one--book-nerd
  4. that-one--book-nerd reblogged this from bookstoreromantic
  5. romanwaif reblogged this from this-too-too-sullied-flesh
  6. a-rude-elven-mage reblogged this from bookstoreromantic
  7. bookstoreromantic reblogged this from vickyvicarious
  8. profoundlynoisyheart reblogged this from this-too-too-sullied-flesh
  9. mistress-of-the-north reblogged this from vickyvicarious
  10. jackieorioncat reblogged this from allofthismatters
  11. laurenloveslearninglanguages reblogged this from vickyvicarious
  12. vickyvicarious reblogged this from this-too-too-sullied-flesh
  13. a-million-rewritten-stars reblogged this from laschatzi
  14. autisticmoonchild reblogged this from laschatzi
  15. reflections-in-water reblogged this from crinoline-gremlin
  16. lorien-lorien reblogged this from this-too-too-sullied-flesh
  17. allofthismatters reblogged this from laschatzi
  18. laschatzi reblogged this from this-too-too-sullied-flesh
  19. anastasiapetrova reblogged this from this-too-too-sullied-flesh
  20. garden-daze reblogged this from this-too-too-sullied-flesh
  21. this-too-too-sullied-flesh reblogged this from qqueenofhades
  22. whonchoppy-blog reblogged this from bluecaptions
  23. penguinsstealingsanity reblogged this from mostly-history
(c)