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    1 year ago

    Ever tried Chaucer? And he was only 14th century.

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      1 year ago

      English has changed a lot (no I’ve not read a lot of poetry in languages other than my own), some others may have changed less. Maybe Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic. Greek has changed but some people know ancient Greek