@@MoreMMBOOM It is, they're both Germanic languages, along with Dutch and (I think?) Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian. English is really similar to Dutch and German
@@Pupper626 makes sense. As a Brit one time RUclips was on in the background which I wasn't paying attention to and a German video started with auto play and it took like 1-2 minutes till i realised it wasn't English
The first piece sounds like the Irish language believe it or not. I only understood the last piece with the cider under the table. Wish he hadn’t taken those deep breaths . Amazing .
@@idonotwantahandle2Hmm, English is pretty advanced. Not only do we have a lot more in terms alphabet but the fact that it is derived from other languages making it a mix language. So it is easier to understand if you have a language similar to English. Yes older languages are advanced, but don’t try to think English isn’t advanced.
Finally appreciated it's not bad all the time my time traveler job pays bi-weekly with benefits. Went to kemet, and they call it Egypt now. It's all black people. The people back in America were all black but later called Indians. Wireless internet back then the pyramids powerplants and Atlantis these places are far more advanced then now. The giants and green people didn't hide underground, then the flood hit. I saw Caucasians after that in the mountains, light skinned black people all over mexican Arabic people dark and lightskin, and they became Asians islands, people, and Chinese.The future all I see is Asians???
He did that a lot. Many's the time Shakespeare won the Stratford-on-Tynne Slam Poetry Competition. He won it three years straight at one stage, and then he won it another four times after that, but never again in consecutive years.
The people didn't change. The Normans took the positions of power but there was no large scale immigration. Even William himself returned to Normandy and died/buried there. This is why almost all the most commonly spoken words are Germanic, much of the French influence was via government and the church.
As a native Dutch person, I can actually understand a lot of it. We are sister languages after all. Ours merely did not modernize as much as yours did. Vogeln = vogel in dutch= Bird in modern english. Haerd= haard in dutch and means fireplace or your modern forgotten word hearth. which is also heart ( the heart ( hearth) of the house to keep warm). It is a beautiful language, with mostly forgotten beautiful words.
And in Sweden, we still say _Fader vår, som är i himmelen._ Pretty close to Middle English, at least in our perspective. _Himmelen_ is actually a loan from High German though. Before that, we just said _sky,_ also in this type of context. (One of the words that were imported to England by the Danes in the 800s.)
I was uniquely fortunate when I was just a young girl to have a marvelous teacher of Old English and Middle English poetry named George Killian who originally had been a seminarian who decided to go into teaching. He taught us to recite from memory in the correct pronunciation of Middle English the entire preamble which I still remember to this day and it is a beautiful language. I then had the great Good Fortune many years later of having a tenant live in my home who was also an expert in this language and time period!
That's about the time when the Norman (French) influences entered the picture after William the Conquer and his heirs took over. Before that, English was a purely germanic language (aka Anglo-Saxon)
Yeah, one of the earliest well-known writings of this era is The Canterbury Tales from Geoffry Chaucer. Sure there's a few others, but this is the Middle English transition coming out of the Crusades era into the Reformation - Renaissance Era with the Shakespearean era of Early Modern English. Yet English in of itself is a hodgepodge of many various languages. It has influences from French, German, Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, some Norse, Latin, Greek and even Hebrew or some of the Semitic languages. American English is even more of a hodgepodge than British English. We also have some of our words being derived from many of the Native North American Tribes as well as other various spoken languages. With that I think it might stand for this as it seems to be very fitting: Every National Gibberish Language Is Selected Here.
PI European: Gibberish P Germanic: Gibberish with open consonants A Frisian: 🔥 Old English: 🔥 Middle English: Drunken Irishmen at 3 A.M Early Modern English: Shakespearean ish
Well, yes because by nature analog recordings usually erode over time. But they keep it all in very highly controlled environments with regard to temperature and humidity. Especially something this historical and of cultural significance.
"in the middle of the table, against the woven cloth upon the wall,there was a chair under a canopy and there sat a lady fair to look upon and so like was shan form of the womanhood to the king that edmund guessed to share his own of his close kindred"🗣️🗣️🔥🔥💯💯 Edit:this is the most amount of likes I've ever got:)
That last part makes no sense. That's because you misheard it. This is an excerpt from Lord of the Rings, someone else posted it below: ""In the middle of the table, against the woven cloths upon the wall, there was a chair under a canopy, and there sat a lady fair to look upon, and so like was she in form of womanhood to Elrond that Frodo guessed that she was one of his close kindred.""
… Or, a real-time example of how everyday usage can and does change over a relatively short amount of time in living languages (not that I am arguing with any of you about the grammar that was actually used; I agree with you with respect to what is commonly considered “proper” English). 😉
@@katsmith1031 yes, thank you for pointing out the other side. Languages evolve, and a large part of how that happens is through mistakes which become common. I’ve heard this “how it sounded like” mistake at least a few times, but the point of language is to communicate and if their meaning is fully understood then is it really a mistake? Or maybe it’s actually the language being put to new use?🤷♂️
This is why it’s insulting to call people “white” and imply it’s some negative culture-less group. English, Irish, Italian, polish, and so on all have beautiful rich diverse cultures and history!! ❤
If anyone wonders why Early Modern English suddenly sounds Cornwall, it's because the only marker language scientists have is an isolated island in S.E. USA, with a recognisable English accent. The islands were "colonised" in the 1600s by people from Cornwall. Therefore all of England spoke like farmers in Shakespeares time.. hmm..
Lmao no. That is not it whatsoever. It’s derived from period sources that speak of the subject like Shakespeare’s works themselves and rural English dialects still spoken today. Trad East Anglian accents and West Country accents sound very similar. How is that the case when they’re on opposite ends of the country? I’ll leave you to answer that.
If you know your history English was born from the German language. Seriously. Even the word “English” sounds German if you forget its meaning and just think about the way it sounds. Old English and Old German are so close their speakers could almost have an understandable conversation
@@MartinJosefssonFI 'In the middle of the table, against the woven cloths upon the wall, there was a chair under a canopy, and there sat a lady fair to look upon, and so like was she in form of womanhood to the King that Edmund guessed that she was one of his close kindred.'
@@eniej There are certain features in English that are not present in any other Germanic languages that are hypothesised to come from contact with Celtic languages however. The main one being the fact that we start questions with “do” or “are” for some reason. Like “do you want to eat?” rather than just “you want to eat?” which would be more typical. Celtic languages do a similar thing, but neither Germanic nor Romance languages do this.
"there under a canopy they sat by a fire around a table ... there was a chair under the canopy and there sat a lady who was fair to look upon". People still talk like that in some parts of Ireland. It's not that hard to make out if one listens carefully.
It kind of makes sense when you think about the time that they introduced the penal laws in Ireland. But aside from that, most of our odd ways of forming sentences comes from direct translation from Irish.
@@noodleninjachip2Not Mongolian, Mongolian is a member of the Mongolic languages in Asia, while Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian are part of the European Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic family
The problem is grammar is not being properly taught in public schools anymore. As a high schooler in the 70’s, we would have been penalized points on any paper that contained grammar like this. My kids’s private Christian school would have done the same. It’s kind of a joke now, but we ruthlessly correct each other’s grammar to this day.
Starting off real strong with that opening sentence! 😂 "How old English sounded." OR "What old English sounded like." NEVER, "How old English sounded like." 🤦♀️
I was always told my family could be traced to Scotland. I recently found that to be incorrect. We can be traced back to Wales. I’ve become infatuated with the Welsh dialect since.
Sure same roots, but English has a very strong Latin/French influence. This makes it very hard for native speakers to understand the Germanic grammar. Also English at the beginning was a West Germanic language. It is by no means an easy language to learn, I have been consistently studying German for six years.
@@doaaseka4852 it was a joke/jab at our society. look at all these civilized versions of English but then you get to ours and its just morons coughing up smoke. If they do speak at all its just a blend of gamer speak and ebonics.
Middle English fascinates me the most. It feels the most "in between" feeling like it's a language you speak and a foreign language altogether. It would've been fascinating to try to communicate with these people after going back in time.
Don't be ridiculous. 🙄 Are you really so naive to think they have real recordings from that far back!? If you need anything at all, you know that obviously these are modern recordings made by the use of the DeLorean time machine and its 1980s "state of the art" cassette tape stereo / recording system.😜😂🤣
Noah Webster, the author of Websters dictionary, said that he created the English language by compiling all of the various languages of the American aborigines. He said he created it to be a trade language for the Europeans who were living amongst and trading with the aborigines/indians and the native Americans. Ironically, in the first American English Websters dictionary the word “Native” is defined as the descendants of people born on the land. And the word “American” is defined as “a word originally used for the copper colored Indians of the land, but is now used for the descendants of Europeans born on the land”. When you learn that the “mongoloid native Americans” are just the first white Europeans to come to America via the Bering strait, then you learn the original meaning for the word(s) “Native American”, then you can form a clear and concise picture of what a Native American is. You should also be able to understand why they look the way they do and why trump felt comfortable enough to look directly into the faces of the 5 chiefs of the “civilized tribes” and tell them “I have more Indian in my blood than all of you”… those chiefs weren’t uncomfortable or offended in the slightest, they literally laughed. As an American, the only way you’ll learn true American history is by studying it for yourself. Sometime that will require you to learn American history from the worlds perspective to be able to easily point out the discrepancies of the version of our history that is taught to us in school. For example, every European explorer that came over here described there first encounter in detail and everyone I’ve ever read described the people as blac. Some of the biggest explorers wrote it in their logs fr the world to learn from, ie: Columbus(his son and uncle), Magellan AND Vespucci. Columbus and his family described them as “tall avg 6ft, athletic build, dark skin and looked African, BUT WERE NOT AFRICAN…… Magellan wrote that when he reached the shores of South America that he was met by “FIFTY NEGRO MEN IN BOATS”. …… Vespucci said that he was guided thru the jungles of South America by various tribes of “BUSH NEGROS”…. They will NEVER confuse us unless they’re attempting to confuse US. Yes all humans may have all come out of Africa at some point, but every blac person is not African just like the white people aren’t. It’s similar to how Canine is the species but, dog, wolf, coyote, dingo etc are the various genus under the species. Historically there are 5 classifications of blac people and they are each the aborigines of their respective continent… Africanus- aborigines of Africa Australoid-aborigines of Australia and all the Polynesian islands. Ie:Fiji, Hawaii etc Moor-aborigines of Europe Negrito-aborigines of Asia and the first dynasties of China Negro- aborigines of ALL of America. North-South and the Caribbean . Don’t let them deceive you, the mongoloid native is NOT the first people of America and they KNOW this. It’s documented. The oldest bones in America are the skull of a “Negro Indian” from the Bahamas. The oldest dna found in America can only be found in one place today and that’s in the ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA. And guess what?? It dates bac over 100k years. I know I went off on a tangent but I knew that if I didn’t follow up the Noah Webster statement and how he created the English language by compiling the dialects of the blac tribes here in America, then people would just begin their racist rhetoric. There’s far more info that proves my statements but I’ll just leave it here. Peace love and prosperity to you all. Learn the truth about thanksgiving and not just the modern rewrite they’re tryna push on us lately
@@seedythomp4388indeed, that and the existential crisis the English language is experiencing are currently my biggest pet peeves. By "existential crisis", I mean the disappearance of "to be". For example, the title of this video "needs corrected". 🤦♂️
No. Did you know Pride is one of the Seven Deadly Sins? It is. Rightly so! Pride always arrogantly grasps at credit that is not due. Capricious fate has made some people simply American, and some people simply native English speakers. We are wrong to proclaim self-creation!
Current British English would express the title of this vid as "What old English sounded like. not as you have "how old English sounded like. This is not a criticsm. I have noticed that Americans often use the 'how/like'pair rather than the British 'what/like'.pair. Brits would most likely to say 'How old English sounded'. It would be interesting to research this as often current American English grammar is often closer to old English grammar than is current British English grammar.
I like the one on the right best. That chainmail in front of the face looks so menacing and badass. The Gjermundbu helmet is my favorite of all time when it is recrerated like that eventhough it most likely only had mail in the back and at the sides.
@@sirlaggsalot343 I did! Nobody 'liked' it. You didn't even see it. Life's almost impossible - and now people are SHOUTING at the Prime Minister. I'm going to have a coffee and sit quietly whilst thinking about the state of this country. I could go on........
@@supalew There there, now. Everything will be all right. We all have days like that. Just keep repeating, "I AM relevant. I AM relevant..." and remember to take your thyroid medicine. 😅
In every pubs and bars you can hear this language after 11 PM
This shit was fanny ass 🔥 wish it was up higher so more would have noticed it and it would've got the likes it deserves
Right o 😂😂😂
I'm a bartender and I agree 😂😂
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Old English is just the doctor's handwriting being spoken.
Underrated
@@heavymemer9463 fr
actually
Best comment 😅😂
frisian raider with no name!
It's weirdly sounds liked every pilot announcement in every flight I've been on
Sounds like the British Rail announcer over the Tannoy at Newcastle Central.
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Yessss!!!! 😂😂😂😂
Wow great observation!
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Respect to the guy who travelled back in time to learn how to speak old English
You can actually learn how to speak it, like Latin it's a dead language, you can learn it, but no one actively speaks it.
Romanic.
We're going back to something like it!!!
Hello Sans from the hit game Undertale
@@serpentpigeon9108what do u mean romanic
Ancient English ❌
Irish guy at 3 am at a bar ✅
As a German speaker it just sounds like a German with a weird ass accent and also speaking gibberish
@@Pupper626English is derived from German I think
@@MoreMMBOOM It is, they're both Germanic languages, along with Dutch and (I think?) Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian. English is really similar to Dutch and German
@@Pupper626 Yeah. All Germanic languages have really similar words, not directly intelligible, but you could make out a lot of words.
@@Pupper626 makes sense. As a Brit one time RUclips was on in the background which I wasn't paying attention to and a German video started with auto play and it took like 1-2 minutes till i realised it wasn't English
It’s amazing how in just a few centuries we went from talking backwards to forwards.
Old languages are actually more advanced. Fact.
The first piece sounds like the Irish language believe it or not. I only understood the last piece with the cider under the table. Wish he hadn’t taken those deep breaths . Amazing .
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@@idonotwantahandle2 you a little baby boy who poops his diaper. fact.
@@idonotwantahandle2Hmm, English is pretty advanced. Not only do we have a lot more in terms alphabet but the fact that it is derived from other languages making it a mix language. So it is easier to understand if you have a language similar to English. Yes older languages are advanced, but don’t try to think English isn’t advanced.
Respect to all mumble rappers, this whole time they were honoring the old english speakers and we didn’t even know it 🙏
Facts 😂😂😂😂
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LOLLL
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Lmaooo tff 🤣🤣🤣
You can hear the drastic change due to the influence of Norman French post battle of Hastings.
The effects of wars and migration are indeed evident.
Respect to the guy that went back in time to get these recordings…the hero we didn’t deserve 🙏🏾
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He brought back his Time Machine from the future and took it to the past… duh…🫤
Finally appreciated it's not bad all the time my time traveler job pays bi-weekly with benefits. Went to kemet, and they call it Egypt now. It's all black people. The people back in America were all black but later called Indians. Wireless internet back then the pyramids powerplants and Atlantis these places are far more advanced then now. The giants and green people didn't hide underground, then the flood hit. I saw Caucasians after that in the mountains, light skinned black people all over mexican Arabic people dark and lightskin, and they became Asians islands, people, and Chinese.The future all I see is Asians???
He didn't bring back anything. They dug up an old tape recorder with all the recordings! 🤣 🤣
Middle English sounds like Shakespeare trying to freestyle at a poetry slam.
Yo no comments???
He did that a lot. Many's the time Shakespeare won the Stratford-on-Tynne Slam Poetry Competition.
He won it three years straight at one stage, and then he won it another four times after that, but never again in consecutive years.
@@JasonWongPartyStreet
How's that?
@@frenzalrhomb6919 Now there they are
Jit r everywhere 😭
This is basically how English sounds to non-English speakers.
Not really, those "R"s make it sound like another language
Fr
Literally not. The rhotic r really carries English
Not at all lol.
Stupid
That ended cracked me up. Wasn’t expecting that.
Middle English sounds like a bloke with a very strong Irish accent
Have you ever heard an Irish accent, if anything it sounds like it's from Cornwall
Early modern english too
@@trust_in_jesus im literally pure irish
Your using aussie english
@@nahbro180 You’re* not at liberty to speak on anyone’s use of English if you don’t use it correctly yourself
It's wild to hear words slowly become recognizable as the eras jump forward
Agreed
Same. Edimology has always been intriguing to me.
@@StetzMusic
Its even more beautiful the early language very indeed.
They were always recognisable to those who spoke them at the time.
@@smythharris2635 That is how common languages work, yes.
As a Brit, I am sat here thinking how on earth did we go from this to "innit mate" 😂😂
Big man tings bruv, man dem moving bare mad still 🤣 road man copped a rotty and a shiv from man geeza for them pagans when man catch him in the ends
@@lordhoweproductions3733late modern English is lit bruv 🔥🔥🔥
@@lordhoweproductions3733 wagwan my g.. east end blud? Man's inviting for a shank dance 😅
What do You mean by "innit mate:?
The same way that every English person suddenly decided that you can go from "I am sitting here" to "I am sat here"
Literally 😂 before 1066 the English were totally different people
The people didn't change. The Normans took the positions of power but there was no large scale immigration. Even William himself returned to Normandy and died/buried there. This is why almost all the most commonly spoken words are Germanic, much of the French influence was via government and the church.
“Wagon wegan wun”🗣️🗣️🔥🔥
Bro is literally casting a incantation 😂😂
Got me thinking about Wun Weg Wun Dar Wun.
Vegan wine wun?
Vegan wun wun 🗣️🔥🔥
Wagon wegan what?
Respect to the man who travelled in time to record old English
lol
Truly
writing is amazing like that.
BAHAHA…
Cameraman never dies
Dude coughing in a car for Modern English 👏👏👏
Wow, the last one (cough) sounds like my language. I am from Asia Pacific.
No, is not coughing but is invented a new language like esperanto. 🤣🤣🤣
Lmao
E needza bot-ill o woh-ah
@@BlueSpaceLizard i hear you
Shoutout to the guy who travelled every decade to record their voices
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Lolll
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Traveled lightly, thus developed pneumonia in the end.
*Cough, cough, cough!*
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Decade?
Old English is just the record being played backwards
As a native Dutch person, I can actually understand a lot of it. We are sister languages after all. Ours merely did not modernize as much as yours did. Vogeln = vogel in dutch= Bird in modern english. Haerd= haard in dutch and means fireplace or your modern forgotten word hearth. which is also heart ( the heart ( hearth) of the house to keep warm). It is a beautiful language, with mostly forgotten beautiful words.
@@cyano741 I learned something. Thank you.
@@cyano741 Ben zelf ook nederlands maar ik begrijp er echt geen ene kut van
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@@thijskraaijvanger234 wellicht een goede reden om je woordenschat uit te breiden!
when he said "wigan wegan wugan wok" I really felt that
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*Wagan Wigan wond
I thought he said Wagwan like a Jamaican😂
“Wigan wegan wugon wok”as well
Fun fact on that: alliterations were the form of poetry to old English than the end-line rhyming that the French made more popular.
Strangely, that first one reminds me of the sound I get out of my radio when playing any song backwards.
Drunk North German farmer:
Dutch. Not German.
@@wimdb86 im dutch, that doesnt sound shit like dutch.
@@The_last_prime GoeT geEngelstd
Dutch is just German but if you put 2 marbles in each of your cheeks XD
Durch are basicly Germans with Dialect@@wimdb86
"Faeder ure, thu art on heofunum" is Middle English for "Our Father Who art in heaven". Thanks for the interesting video!
What's funny is that's all I hear now 😂
Spot on man.
Walfæder?
And in Sweden, we still say _Fader vår, som är i himmelen._ Pretty close to Middle English, at least in our perspective. _Himmelen_ is actually a loan from High German though. Before that, we just said _sky,_ also in this type of context. (One of the words that were imported to England by the Danes in the 800s.)
@@UrsulaPainter Hefalump?
@@supalewI wilt heftwo. Danke.
I was uniquely fortunate when I was just a young girl to have a marvelous teacher of Old English and Middle English poetry named George Killian who originally had been a seminarian who decided to go into teaching. He taught us to recite from memory in the correct pronunciation of Middle English the entire preamble which I still remember to this day and it is a beautiful language. I then had the great Good Fortune many years later of having a tenant live in my home who was also an expert in this language and time period!
Hello from Greece.
Mrs Leslie i want to ask you,if i can trust that video, as a historical note.
And now you're old and wrinkly
DAWG what?
Sounded like Russian
I'd like to hear you recite it
Fascinating! Post more like this, please!!
This is actually all modern English. They're just all different levels of drunk.
Harsh, yet hilariously accurate
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My theory is that the english are returning to their original language because of alcohol.
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@@robby7025 - Agree!
Every alcoholic after 10PM
Hey
Middle English is where is becomes understandable to modern ears.
That's about the time when the Norman (French) influences entered the picture after William the Conquer and his heirs took over. Before that, English was a purely germanic language (aka Anglo-Saxon)
i didnt catch a word till Shakespearean english
@@newt2120 same and even then it was sometimes hard.
Yeah, one of the earliest well-known writings of this era is The Canterbury Tales from Geoffry Chaucer. Sure there's a few others, but this is the Middle English transition coming out of the Crusades era into the Reformation - Renaissance Era with the Shakespearean era of Early Modern English. Yet English in of itself is a hodgepodge of many various languages. It has influences from French, German, Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, some Norse, Latin, Greek and even Hebrew or some of the Semitic languages. American English is even more of a hodgepodge than British English. We also have some of our words being derived from many of the Native North American Tribes as well as other various spoken languages.
With that I think it might stand for this as it seems to be very fitting:
Every
National
Gibberish
Language
Is
Selected
Here.
**inserts fact from Wikipedia so everyone knows I can read.**
The last clip got me off guard😂
PI European: Gibberish
P Germanic: Gibberish with open consonants
A Frisian: 🔥
Old English: 🔥
Middle English: Drunken Irishmen at 3 A.M
Early Modern English: Shakespearean ish
Modern English: 💩
@@MisterEvvvSymphoenix dahfuk mah dawg? I swear to god one day that’ll be in the English dictionary and thank god I won’t be hear to see it 😅
LOL
Who the hell shortens "Proto-Indo-European" to "PI European"? At least use PIE the actual shortened version.
@@MisterEvvvSymphoenix remember ya also talking in modern english
Early modern english literally sounds like a modern irish accent 😭😭😭😭
I did'nt understand any of those ancient English and I speak english 😅
@@teddy-ez5zt Well yeah because the language is a mix of french and german with a hint of gibberish lol
i would say it sounds very Appalachian
That’s exactly what I thought😂
The Irish have always been a bit behind the English 😜
Now I understand how English was derived from German after listening to this.
Old English does not sound like German language at all. In Germany, they also had old German that time.
This ain't old English. This is whatever the people who lived before the English came, talked
German language is NOT the mother of English language. German is a SISTER language of English language
English is Germanic language and people not from Germany but Germanic family@@GTSN38
Germanic ppl and present day German language is far different 😂
So kind of ancient people recording how they sounded like 😊
Fr
Amazing that these audio recording survived this long
You are hilarious!
Lmfao😂😂😂😂!!!
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Well, yes because by nature analog recordings usually erode over time. But they keep it all in very highly controlled environments with regard to temperature and humidity. Especially something this historical and of cultural significance.
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"in the middle of the table, against the woven cloth upon the wall,there was a chair under a canopy and there sat a lady fair to look upon and so like was shan form of the womanhood to the king that edmund guessed to share his own of his close kindred"🗣️🗣️🔥🔥💯💯
Edit:this is the most amount of likes I've ever got:)
thank you!
@@aldencoley6841 !?
That last part makes no sense. That's because you misheard it.
This is an excerpt from Lord of the Rings, someone else posted it below:
""In the middle of the table, against the woven cloths upon the wall, there was a chair under a canopy, and there sat a lady fair to look upon, and so like was she in form of womanhood to Elrond that Frodo guessed that she was one of his close kindred.""
Shekespeare ain’t missing around 🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
@@Faleko_Fares ?
Modern English, you don’t need the “like” at the end. The sentence was complete with “sounded”.
Alternatively, 'What Old English sounded like'.
Either “How it sounded.” or “What it sounded like.”
@@Chief.95 Yes, exactly!!
… Or, a real-time example of how everyday usage can and does change over a relatively short amount of time in living languages (not that I am arguing with any of you about the grammar that was actually used; I agree with you with respect to what is commonly considered “proper” English). 😉
@@katsmith1031 yes, thank you for pointing out the other side. Languages evolve, and a large part of how that happens is through mistakes which become common. I’ve heard this “how it sounded like” mistake at least a few times, but the point of language is to communicate and if their meaning is fully understood then is it really a mistake? Or maybe it’s actually the language being put to new use?🤷♂️
Ik this pain, I read Beowulf in old and modern English . . . It was torture
Props to the guy who went back in time to record this
Cameraman never dies and is the real time traveller
Plot Twist: It's The Doctor recorded this
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Thank you. My wings are tired
And how would that be possible? We dont have a time machine… some people are not the brightest
The only English I could understand was modern English at the end. And a lot o laughter reading your commentaries, my friends.
Now in the 2100s the language will be "skibidi sigma siigma gyatt" 💀💀
And Diddy.
Rizzed that skibidi ahh sigma with my gyatt
Stupid Ass
Which is just pure degeneration.
and drake sigma baby oil
Old English sounds as if they're speaking backwards. 😂
Elizabethan sounds Irish
They are
It is literally spoken backwards dead ass
Don’t you mean as if they were speaking Russian ?
You mean the beginning Proto-Indo-European, right?
Sounds like a typical flight announcement.
Middle English sounds like “Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking…” 😂
It’s amazing how language just evolves - 300 years from now the way we speak today might be almost unrecognizable
Except that they'll have something we don't have from back then: sh*tty podcasts
Robinson Crusoe was written over 300 years ago and it is still pretty easy to understand.
Only if teenagers kept their language into their 40's
NEGATIVE
The way most english speakers talk today is hard for me to understand. 😂
Fascinating how so many audio records have been preserved from ancient times!
dude!
@@KenanTurkiye that’s a joke, lol.
@@al_maigne I know and I liked it. ;)
@@al_maigne Have a great day my friend. :)
Maybe you're joking, but some people here don't appear to be.
This is why it’s insulting to call people “white” and imply it’s some negative culture-less group. English, Irish, Italian, polish, and so on all have beautiful rich diverse cultures and history!! ❤
Gosh, I just LOVE stuff like this! I’m a big student of history, and especially languages. So this is just the bees knees to me!
I so appreciate someone researching and attempting this, too. It’s a shame the grammar in the title wasn’t given the same amount of attention. 🙂
Haha bees knees. I said that the other day. We're bringing it back baby!
Same here👍🏻😃
You realize this is all made up gibberish. No one knows what they sounded like.
Get married. She’ll introduce you to a whole other language.
Historians: “I wonder what old languages sounded like”
Old languages: “ _Wind noises_ ”
swish wish vespecht, von klist si kist vesh...like wind through the leaves of a tree.
If anyone wonders why Early Modern English suddenly sounds Cornwall, it's because the only marker language scientists have is an isolated island in S.E. USA, with a recognisable English accent. The islands were "colonised" in the 1600s by people from Cornwall. Therefore all of England spoke like farmers in Shakespeares time.. hmm..
What island is that?
There are old rhotic accents in some isolated parts of Eastern North America, but they are not "the only marker language scientists have".
Lmao no. That is not it whatsoever. It’s derived from period sources that speak of the subject like Shakespeare’s works themselves and rural English dialects still spoken today. Trad East Anglian accents and West Country accents sound very similar. How is that the case when they’re on opposite ends of the country? I’ll leave you to answer that.
Southern England was known to have a rhotic accent until the 1800s.
@@isoldam Aren't all American accents rhotic?
If you know your history English was born from the German language. Seriously. Even the word “English” sounds German if you forget its meaning and just think about the way it sounds. Old English and Old German are so close their speakers could almost have an understandable conversation
I like how you can slowly understand more and more of the passage as you go along.
I can't. You are probably a fast learner.
@@MartinJosefssonFI 'In the middle of the table, against the woven cloths upon the wall, there was a chair under a canopy, and there sat a lady fair to look upon, and so like was she in form of womanhood to the King that Edmund guessed that she was one of his close kindred.'
English sounds like a German got lost in a blender with a Roman and had a Celt for a neighbor that had constant beef about the borders.
This is exactly wat the English language is 😂
Kinda accurate tbh, just add some more random stuff from France and Denmark
That’s just Old English. Throw in some Danish and entirely to much French and you have modern english.
English actually doesn’t sound like any Celtic languages, it’s really interesting actually
@@eniej There are certain features in English that are not present in any other Germanic languages that are hypothesised to come from contact with Celtic languages however. The main one being the fact that we start questions with “do” or “are” for some reason. Like “do you want to eat?” rather than just “you want to eat?” which would be more typical. Celtic languages do a similar thing, but neither Germanic nor Romance languages do this.
"there under a canopy they sat by a fire around a table ... there was a chair under the canopy and there sat a lady who was fair to look upon". People still talk like that in some parts of Ireland. It's not that hard to make out if one listens carefully.
Did you get that he's saying things in newer and newer languages? Of course you understood.
It kind of makes sense when you think about the time that they introduced the penal laws in Ireland. But aside from that, most of our odd ways of forming sentences comes from direct translation from Irish.
The accents of the last few are perfect! Really often an overlooked factor.
Mfs in the Black Forest still speaking Proto Indo European
Is estonia a proto indo eroupe
@@Nuclearmanb13I think either uralic or baltic(if baltic then yes)
@@lordbeetrotit's uralic so no, it's the same branch ad hungarian, Finnish, and Mongolian i believe
@@noodleninjachip2 ok thanks
@@noodleninjachip2Not Mongolian, Mongolian is a member of the Mongolic languages in Asia, while Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian are part of the European Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic family
It is either "What Old English sounded like," or "How Old English sounded." This is a pet peeve of mine, and I see it more and more often.
Just made roughly the same comment
Drives me up the wall too, so many non native English speakers do this
Yes!!! Before I began scrolling through, I made a similar comment.
So did I!
The problem is grammar is not being properly taught in public schools anymore. As a high schooler in the 70’s, we would have been penalized points on any paper that contained grammar like this. My kids’s private Christian school would have done the same. It’s kind of a joke now, but we ruthlessly correct each other’s grammar to this day.
Starting off real strong with that opening sentence! 😂
"How old English sounded." OR "What old English sounded like." NEVER, "How old English sounded like." 🤦♀️
Yes. I commented exactly the same, and then some.
I really wish this was the top comment
That's just the Super Modern English era starting. Now with 50% more fluff and 80% less substance!
Vicky pollard from Little Britain... But yeah, but no😅
Right! 🤦🏾
english now “gyatt,rizz,aura,sigma,slay,ate,sheeeshh,so fetch,cap,fax no printer,mew,yapp,skibidi,fanum tax,bussin,”😭😭
DAMN 2.4k im not surprised jk
I've never heard of "fax no printer"
@@Spherius its cause you were born 3 days ago your absolute humonculi
Is it citation of Churchill?
this is a perfect example of the dead internet theory
Period*
WE FAILING ENGLISH CLASS WITH THIS ONE 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥
It is really fascinating to hear the English is old sounds
Everybody speaks old English if you drink enough
No wonder a Welsh English accent sounds so melodic and beautiful. It’s the closest we still have to Old English.
I was always told my family could be traced to Scotland. I recently found that to be incorrect. We can be traced back to Wales. I’ve become infatuated with the Welsh dialect since.
@@UnrizzableQueena*Scotland
That just doesn't seem likely. Welsh English sounds melodic because of the strong Celtic influence of the Welsh language.
@@proberts4243This comment just shows how ignorant AMERICANS are 😂Roberts is a Welsh name Robertson is a Scottish name
Which is ironic given that they didn't speak Anglo-Saxon. It is more complicated than that mind you.
And this is why German is an easy language for English speakers to grasp. Same roots.♥️✌️
.... fam, my cousin laughs at me when I try to speak to her in German, you sure about that??
Sure same roots, but English has a very strong Latin/French influence. This makes it very hard for native speakers to understand the Germanic grammar. Also English at the beginning was a West Germanic language. It is by no means an easy language to learn, I have been consistently studying German for six years.
That's the best joke I heard today 😂😂😂😂
Who would wanna learn German tho 😂
Unless you plan to live in Germany it has zero use outside of Germany
@alexnelson9512, Dutch is one third German, one third English and one third sore throat.
That ending was sad but true.
What does it mean ? They don’t talk 😢
@@doaaseka4852 it was a joke/jab at our society. look at all these civilized versions of English but then you get to ours and its just morons coughing up smoke. If they do speak at all its just a blend of gamer speak and ebonics.
@@doaaseka4852💯💯🔥🔥🗣️🆒😔😔🪦💔💀😭😭😭🙏🙏
@@doaaseka4852RANGE ROVER
"How old English sounded like" lol
Is this how other people that don’t understand English hear us
I hope so
As someone who used to not understand a word of English and now does, it’s unfortunately not true
then what did we sound like to u?
@@Srzslhthen what did we sound like to u?lol
@@WyattsBeachies-oj4it like that
ruclips.net/video/Vt4Dfa4fOEY/видео.htmlsi=6Z3LsJWO6FCQY9lu
Such a big evolution. Especially between 15 and 17th centuries to sound more modern. Amazing.
Let’s start with getting modern English in order: “What Old English sounded like” or “How Old English sounded..
The written part is ok - all that's needed is a comma to make it idiomatically perfect: "How Old English sounded, like."
Thank you! The title is so annoying!
Ah the chronically online Oxford english professors. But thank you regardless.
@@MollyHJohnsI'm just a farm kid from the Midwest, and that one even drives me nuts.
Exactly.
wow,i'm speaking ancient English every day🤣
What* Old English sounded like, not "How Old English sounded like." If you want to use "How" then it's just "How Old English sounded."
Are you a teacher?
Wait...What?? How?? Just kidding!!! Most people can't even speak OR write MODERN ENGLISH!!!
Lol, I have just commented on the same thing before seeing your post
Lol, I just commented on the same thing before I even saw your post, almost exact wording 😂
@@sarahconnor9692 same
Middle English fascinates me the most. It feels the most "in between" feeling like it's a language you speak and a foreign language altogether. It would've been fascinating to try to communicate with these people after going back in time.
They wouldn't have a clue to what you would be saying. And the same for us.
Selective ignorance they would have not WANTED to know what you were sahing 😂@@black10872
Theyd burn you for being a witch
Bit risky. Say the wrong thing and end up bereft of your head.
@@innocentbystander8038why wouldnt you bring a gun?
Bros unlocked new outfits each time the language leveled up.
You mean regressed, right?
How would one say "Bruh" in Old English?
@@theeclectic2919 "Bruj" Idk
@@theeclectic2919 "bróð"?
Proto Germanic Is fire
Modern English “ u wot ? Ya bellend!”
Innit
@@CrypticHowl can't be arsed
@@Karma-qt4ji u wot bruv? You can't be bovvered? That's bang outta orda!
@@Karma-qt4jioi run me the bourse eh wog inv dryv
Nowh, it's nöt bottle of water, it's bo ol wo ær
That’s crazy how they have audio from all the way back in time! Technology really is mind blowing
😅
From the Chronivision
Don't be ridiculous. 🙄
Are you really so naive to think they have real recordings from that far back!?
If you need anything at all, you know that obviously these are modern recordings made by the use of the DeLorean time machine and its 1980s "state of the art" cassette tape stereo / recording system.😜😂🤣
@@mrfixitusa6165obviously it was a joke 😂
@@fleshstone444 equally obviously, you didn't read all of mrfixit's comment
Wow, that was amazing thank you. I find accents, dialects, the roots and history of our languages fascinating
Me too!
It’s also fascinating on how people know that they have an accent as well.
@@Pharaoh_The_Great I hadn’t thought about that, thank you 😁 an extremely interesting thing to consider 👏🏼
Definitely a class I want to take.
I'm an anthropology student and I really want to take classes on modern vs historic dialect sometime soon.
@@Jagger-Tyr_13biting off more than you can chew...
as someone who wad born in 5000BC i can confirm that the first excerpt is surprisingly close to what we speak back then.
*”It’s called a RANGE ROVER”*
Hahahaha someone with class
*_"Granny"_*
*Speaks in wealthy*
900th like question mark ❔
"What Car Do You Have?"
"I have a ford Ka."
"What car do you have?"
"I Said a Ford Ka."
"Tell me again, WHAT CAR DO YOU HAVE!?"
Early Modern English sounds like an Irish Tavern in Chicago I used to drink at.
Sounds like a lot of West Virginia too.
Rhotic accent. Current British English changed due to bourgeois speakers who thought it fashionable to drop ending Rs.
😁🤪
"used to drink at"? what happened? The tavern got turned into a starbucks?
@@CatherineCampbell-i1phe probably just stopped going there
The correct way of saying it in New English is either "How old English sounded" or "What old English sounded like".
It's modern English not new english.
You couldn't print it in New English 😂
Can't trust any content generated by someone who mangles English this badly.
Everybody else : Turkish is hard
Old English, Russian and French : are we a joke to you.
The last one: 😷😷😷😷😷🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧 *COUGH
COUGH*
That aint english that corona virus
Fr fr bro like no cap
😂@@mahanikasmiran6718
calling pid old english is a hot take for sure
we're not deaf
So they went from German to Arabic to Urdu to English. Interesting.
lol
Blackamoors took over in c1000AD(Norman Conquest) that's the Arabic...
😂🤣🤣🤣
@@ynraiderColonizers. I hope UK wakes up
@@tboy80z Hey, it's 10:54am right now. I'm awake thanks to your wishing. I'm actually pretty tired so can I please go back to bed now?
Early Modern English: 📚✍️✒️
Modern English: 🗣💨🗣💨🗣💨
Michaela Blair 5659 are you an alien tell me how long have you lived with humans can you make me rich I can make you a baby
You look like a cute alien
Are an alien
@@Nestor-me8gvwhat
Noah Webster, the author of Websters dictionary, said that he created the English language by compiling all of the various languages of the American aborigines. He said he created it to be a trade language for the Europeans who were living amongst and trading with the aborigines/indians and the native Americans. Ironically, in the first American English Websters dictionary the word “Native” is defined as the descendants of people born on the land. And the word “American” is defined as “a word originally used for the copper colored Indians of the land, but is now used for the descendants of Europeans born on the land”. When you learn that the “mongoloid native Americans” are just the first white Europeans to come to America via the Bering strait, then you learn the original meaning for the word(s) “Native American”, then you can form a clear and concise picture of what a Native American is. You should also be able to understand why they look the way they do and why trump felt comfortable enough to look directly into the faces of the 5 chiefs of the “civilized tribes” and tell them “I have more Indian in my blood than all of you”… those chiefs weren’t uncomfortable or offended in the slightest, they literally laughed. As an American, the only way you’ll learn true American history is by studying it for yourself. Sometime that will require you to learn American history from the worlds perspective to be able to easily point out the discrepancies of the version of our history that is taught to us in school. For example, every European explorer that came over here described there first encounter in detail and everyone I’ve ever read described the people as blac. Some of the biggest explorers wrote it in their logs fr the world to learn from, ie: Columbus(his son and uncle), Magellan AND Vespucci. Columbus and his family described them as “tall avg 6ft, athletic build, dark skin and looked African, BUT WERE NOT AFRICAN…… Magellan wrote that when he reached the shores of South America that he was met by “FIFTY NEGRO MEN IN BOATS”. …… Vespucci said that he was guided thru the jungles of South America by various tribes of “BUSH NEGROS”…. They will NEVER confuse us unless they’re attempting to confuse US.
Yes all humans may have all come out of Africa at some point, but every blac person is not African just like the white people aren’t. It’s similar to how Canine is the species but, dog, wolf, coyote, dingo etc are the various genus under the species.
Historically there are 5 classifications of blac people and they are each the aborigines of their respective continent…
Africanus- aborigines of Africa
Australoid-aborigines of Australia and all the Polynesian islands. Ie:Fiji, Hawaii etc
Moor-aborigines of Europe
Negrito-aborigines of Asia and the first dynasties of China
Negro- aborigines of ALL of America. North-South and the Caribbean . Don’t let them deceive you, the mongoloid native is NOT the first people of America and they KNOW this. It’s documented. The oldest bones in America are the skull of a “Negro Indian” from the Bahamas. The oldest dna found in America can only be found in one place today and that’s in the ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA. And guess what?? It dates bac over 100k years.
I know I went off on a tangent but I knew that if I didn’t follow up the Noah Webster statement and how he created the English language by compiling the dialects of the blac tribes here in America, then people would just begin their racist rhetoric. There’s far more info that proves my statements but I’ll just leave it here. Peace love and prosperity to you all. Learn the truth about thanksgiving and not just the modern rewrite they’re tryna push on us lately
WHAT old English sounded like, or, HOW old English sounded. The irony of the mistake is pretty funny
I don’t get why it’s so hard for people
Seriously like nails on a chalkboard. Took too long to find your comment btw
@@seedythomp4388indeed, that and the existential crisis the English language is experiencing are currently my biggest pet peeves.
By "existential crisis", I mean the disappearance of "to be". For example, the title of this video "needs corrected". 🤦♂️
Exactly! 😂
The biggest mistake is that there was no such thing as "English" until well after the Anglo-Saxon invasion. So this is all BS.
Be proud of the language you speak, read and write 🇬🇧
No. Did you know Pride is one of the Seven Deadly Sins? It is. Rightly so! Pride always arrogantly grasps at credit that is not due. Capricious fate has made some people simply American, and some people simply native English speakers. We are wrong to proclaim self-creation!
Fictional gods are irrelevant.
@@rescuingmodernity Galatians 6:4-5 big difference in pride of accomplishment and selfish pride
gyatt sigma rizz 🎉❤😂😂😊🙏
@rescuingmodernity Oh well. Go away and don't tell people how they should feel. I bet you wouldn't say that to Mexicans.
Early modern English sounds beautiful
Na,its awfull and sounds like pigs grunnt...
It sounds like a latin speaking english
Not a latinoamerican, a latins in general
It does. I forget the guy who records Shakespeare as it sounded at the time. He is on youtube
I like proto Germanic sounds same like Arabic
@@marcosgonzalez4207too many R’s and J’s for Latin
Current British English would express the title of this vid as "What old English sounded like. not as you have "how old English sounded like. This is not a criticsm. I have noticed that Americans often use the 'how/like'pair rather than the British 'what/like'.pair. Brits would most likely to say 'How old English sounded'. It would be interesting to research this as often current American English grammar is often closer to old English grammar than is current British English grammar.
I'm so glad they recorded this for the future gen
Anglo saxon is dope af Sutton Hoo mask goes hard 💪🔥🥶
One of my favourite helmets.
I like the one on the right best. That chainmail in front of the face looks so menacing and badass. The Gjermundbu helmet is my favorite of all time when it is recrerated like that eventhough it most likely only had mail in the back and at the sides.
@Baalur I have a custom made helmet just like that and it's on a stand in my bedroom
I have a replica of the Sutton Hoo helm, but it doesn’t have chainmail attached. I like the chainmail look much better.
When Gen Z finds out about history:
"Fair to look upon" smooth ol' line 😂😂❤❤
Rapper's. Take notes 😂
So your telling me that old English was just modern Arabic guy ghost hunting
Sounds like me 8 year old trying to invent a new language 💀
I still try to invent one when the internet is off or when phone is plugged to charger😂once I set an alphabet for my own super easy language.
New how ironic
Default settings
Check out my language
Æħ sá raà ka ña ş
Sķ 😂
Is "me" the same as "my"? I thought you Brits invented this language.
POV: you are in a American plane, and they tell you to wear seat belt
@@madhudey3251 😂😂😂
A video on the English language with a grammatically incorrect title. Inspiring.
Why is no one pointing this out? Lol
@@sirlaggsalot343 I did! Nobody 'liked' it. You didn't even see it. Life's almost impossible - and now people are SHOUTING at the Prime Minister. I'm going to have a coffee and sit quietly whilst thinking about the state of this country. I could go on........
@@supalew There there, now. Everything will be all right. We all have days like that. Just keep repeating, "I AM relevant. I AM relevant..." and remember to take your thyroid medicine. 😅
Yes! Thank you! It hurts my ears and my brain, and it's fucking EVERYWHERE.
Cope and seethe
Old english sounded like the sims talking.
Out of everyone, they chose to pick an asthmatic narrator. Great job.
😂😂😂😂