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Evolution of English in less than 2 mins...

[quote] Now: “Can you write a sentence in English the way it would look now, one hundred years ago, and five hundred years ago?” -100y (c.1917): First World War “Can you write a sentence in English the way it would look now, one hundred years ago, and five hundred years ago?” -400y (c.1617): Just after the death of William Shakespeare “Canst thou write a sentence in English, in the wise that it looketh now, and look’d an hundred years past, and yet five hundred years past?” -500y (c.1517): Mary Tudor was one year old “Canst thou writ a sentence yn Englissh, yn such wise as yt seemeth nou, and seemed an hundred yeeres gonne, and fiue hundred yeeres gonne?” -600y (c.1417): A few years before the birth of William Caxton, the first Printer in England. “Canst thou wryt ane sentence yn Englische yn this wise: that as yt semeth nouwe, and hath semed an hundred yeres ygonne, and fiue hundred yeres ygonne?” -1000y (c.1017): Cnut is king of England, and marries Emma of Normandy “Meaht þu writ an cwide þus in Ænglisc; þæt hit beoð nu, ⁊ hit wæs ær an hundred gear, ⁊ hit wæs ær fif hundred gear?” [/quote]

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  • [quote]20 years in the future: C'n u writ a sentens n english like it b now 'n 100 yeas back 'n 500 yeas back? 100 years in the future: يمكنك كتابة جملة باللغة الإنجليزية الطريقة التي تبدو الآن، قبل مائة سنة، وخمسمائة سنة مضت؟ 500 years in the future: 01000011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110111 01110010 01101001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110011 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01000101 01101110 01100111 01101100 01101001 01110011 01101000 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110111 01100001 01111001 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01110111 01101111 01110101 01101100 01100100 00100000 01101100 01101111 01101111 01101011 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110111 00101100 00100000 01101111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01101000 01110101 01101110 01100100 01110010 01100101 01100100 00100000 01111001 01100101 01100001 01110010 01110011 00100000 01100001 01100111 01101111 00101100 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01100110 01101001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01101000 01110101 01101110 01100100 01110010 01100101 01100100 00100000 01111001 01100101 01100001 01110010 01110011 00100000 01100001 01100111 01101111 00111111[/quote]

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