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Mildly Interesting

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This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?

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How far back in time can you understand English? This site goes back by centuries allowing you to test yourself. (www.deadlanguagesociety.com)
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[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I did better than I thought I would but by 1300 it was starting to get confusing.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And that's just the reading part. Phonetic changes will make the spoken word unintelligible a bit ways before that.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Good thing I'm not a time traveler.