MODERN, MIDDLE, OLD ENGLISH: LORD'S PRAYER

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The evolution of spoken English began from the fifth century, with waves of attack and eventual occupation by the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians. They spoke the same West Germanic tongue but with different dialects. Their intermingling created a new Germanic language; now referred to as Anglo-Saxon, or Old English.

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[BuyMagure]

Its crazy how much easier it is to understand Middle English than Old English.

[harrynewiss]

I read the old english Lord's Prayer out to my teenage daughter who knows nothing about old English and she guessed what it was after just a few lines.

[noreallycaresabout]

Despite English being my native language and having learnt two Romance languages, I find pre-1066 Vulgar Latin easier to understand than English from the same time period.

[sergei-xvgd]

Imagine if English didn't change and Old English was the main international language

[dylanizurieta]

Þes mann lufaþ hu þis geþeode swegþ.
This man loueth hu this itheode souneth.
This man loves how this language sounds.

[spaghettiisyummy.]

Software Engineers when their Prpgramming language starts updating:

[henryloskot]

I wonder if the English and the original Scandinavians understood each other in the ninth century. To put it simply, did the English understand when the first vikings arrived?

[rae_diant]

fascinating! you can see the form of old words like guilt alll the way back in old English

[kingwinkz]

Wow never knew English was so different back then

[kajafreur]

Andy, could you do a video on the different dialects of Old English (i.e Mercian, Northumbrian, Wessaxon, Kentish)?

[rogeramezquita]

i love he sound of old english honestly

[basilicaangela]

I like old English sounds better than modern posh English or Middle English. Sounds like Swedish + German. (Nord) We can also read the history too :3

[sandrodelorenzi]

The old English sound like Germanic / North men, of course for the origin 🤘

[bacicinvatteneaca]

Middle and Old English sound so much better. Middle English is the proof that a language can radically drift in just a few centuries without ending up sounding drunk like modern English.

[investmentgammler]

Why does old english sound so much better than modern english?

[benvo]

tôi rất thích tiếng anh mình sẽ cố gắng học tiếng anh cho giỏi để gặp người ngoại quốc nói bằng tiếng anh 🇬🇧🇺🇸

[DoubleNN]

There's a surprising amount of variation in the modern Lords prayer, I've seen "trespasses" translated as "debts", which seems to be what it says in the middle English here.

Even then, it may be a bit misleading to call this "modern english", I'm not entirely sure but that's probably the King James Bible. They pronounced it differently back then, and we don't use much of the vocabulary anymore, but at the same time (depending on your denomination and everything else) that IS what we say.

[Ladygeorgianaduchess]

Now:I will take a poo
Middle english:E wille taike a pooeh
Old english ewi leta ketak keapo

[Hyoungje]

Wow! Try evolution of the language is stark!!!

[MillayNagatsuki]

Proto-Germanic and Proto-Indo-Europian should be added