>French poetry from a thousand years ago sounds closer to English than French >English poetry from a thousand years ago sounds closer to Dutch than English
>>24698506
The past few years I have been confused by politics seeing the buds of shoehorn theory emerge. I stopped listening and am getting through the 100s of my hoarded pdf books.
>>24698995
If I recall the right guy, he‘s long been one of those who thought he could stay out of the crosshairs by being a 2000‘s tier anti-racist. I‘m glad he got proven wrong.
>>24698933
By reading academic material on which says it does mostly due to French not having so many silent letters then and the nasals still being spoken with the middle of the tongue. English accent gradually changed after the Norman conquest to (11th Century) French when it sounded Ike Dutch originally