Poem Reading: From the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer

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Impressive reading. I realize its been 600 years or so between Chaucer and today, but it is still incredible how much the language has changed. No just the spelling, but the sound of the words is so different. Its hard to remember that English Kings like Henry V spoke the English of Chaucer, not Shakespeare.

BookishTexan
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This was wonderful Lukas, I kind of wish we still spoke this way.  I think it was very musical. Thanks again.

lilliannieswender
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Your Middle English pronunciation has improved! Specially & melodye sound the best, the meaning bursts from these words. 💕 Thank you for sharing!

BiblioAtlas
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I loved it. There's no chance in the world I could understand any of it:) except for a couple of words. It's funny, that probably means that spelling hasn't changed as much as pronunciation has.

elenamakridina
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My familiarity with the Scandinavian languages isn't great but it seemed like there were echoes in these words- wonderful to listen to either way.

josmith
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I'd bear to say that this is the true origins of rap and hip hop. Poetry put to music, but that's too taboo for this generation, and the cancle culture it represents lol.

shmeenix