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“Nonne estis oblectati?”
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Factum fieri infectum non potest.
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Is marking long vowels with acute accents how it’s done these days? It was macrons when I were a lad.
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See also:
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Tempted to send this to my kiddo, who insisted on learning Latin.
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You really can’t understand that song unless you hear it in the original.
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TIL French in 1270 was less formal than it is today, but still quite comprehensible.
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The formalization of most languages is a pretty modern phenomenon…
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I’m more taken aback by the lack of change. I could read and verbally understand the old French without difficulty. I can’t say the same for the old English video.
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That is interesting. How proficient is your French (I assume english is your first language?)?
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First video seems to be an image from the Bayeux Tapestry. Very cool.
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I think people just have trouble typing macrons as they aren’t used as much in other languages. It’s still the “official” way (if ahistorical; the Romans didn’t use them, but then they didn’t use lower case either).
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A bit rusty these days, but I was fluent when I graduated university. It’s like muscle memory, though, if I’m exposed to spoken language, tons of it comes back in less than half an hour.
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It’s hard to brawrf grargle zouf
With all these marbles in my mouth
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