How Far Back in Time Could an English Speaker Go and Still Communicate Effectively?

Signup for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/1I4430noyTL

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check out our Patreon page where we've got a variety of perks for our Patrons, including Simon's voice on your GPS and the ever requested Simon Whistler whistling package: https://www.patreon.com/TodayIFoundOut

The Great Courses Plus is currently available to watch through a web browser to almost anyone in the world and optimized for the US, UK, and Australian markets. The Great Courses Plus is currently working to both optimize the product globally and accept credit card payments globally.

This video is #sponsored by The Great Courses Plus

→Some of our favorites: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR0XuDegDqP10d4vrztQ0fVzNnTiQBEAA
→Subscribe for new videos every day!
https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1

Follow Simon on social media:
https://twitter.com/SimonWhistler
https://www.instagram.com/simonwhistler/

Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week!

More from TodayIFoundOut:

Who Invented the Food Pyramid and Why You'd Be Crazy to Follow It
https://youtu.be/-PBf58Molvc

The Curious Case of the "Law of the Tongue"
https://youtu.be/jvycCQCqI7A

In this video:

Contrary to what many a Grammar Nazi the world over would have you believe, language is constantly evolving, occasionally extremely rapidly, and there is nothing wrong with that, despite such individuals lamenting that fact pretty much as long as we have documented reference of people discussing language.

Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2019/07/how-far-back-in-time-could-a-modern-english-speaker-go-and-still-communicate-effectively/

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z8vmfrd
http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/language.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_English
http://www.bardweb.net/language.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_English
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/where-did-english-come-from/1571948.html
http://www.bardweb.net/language.html
https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/english-changing
http://theconversation.com/what-will-the-english-language-be-like-in-100-years-50284
https://hbr.org/2012/05/global-business-speaks-english
https://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/history_late_modern.html
https://www.ted.com/talks/claire_bowern_where_did_english_come_from/transcript?language=en
https://www.ted.com/talks/john_mcwhorter_4_reasons_to_learn_a_new_language
https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Fall_2003/ling001/language_change.html
https://www.ted.com/talks/john_mcwhorter_txtng_is_killing_language_jk#t-110254
https://public.oed.com/blog/nineteenth-century-english-an-overview/
http://the-toast.net/2014/03/19/a-linguist-explains-british-accents-of-yore/
https://www.quora.com/If-we-could-go-back-to-medieval-times-would-we-be-able-to-understand-each-others-English
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/caxton_william.shtml
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeW1eV7Oc5A
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mispronunciation
http://www.librarius.com/canttran/gptrfs.htm
https://archive.org/stream/cu31924013133834/cu31924013133834_djvu.txt
https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/hist_celts.html

Видео How Far Back in Time Could an English Speaker Go and Still Communicate Effectively? канала Today I Found Out