PugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoVerily, I shake mine headlemmy.worldimagemessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1752arrow-down114
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minus-squareouthouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 day agoWell its middle engliwh not old english. You can tell because youbunderstand it even a little.
minus-squareouthouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·1 day agoMaybe, i lump all that ‘cant be sure a normal american will understand but still doesnt take much work’ era of english in together.
minus-squareOutlierBlue@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoPotatoes are a New World crop. They didn’t exist in medieval Europe.
minus-squareouthouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoAnd i was saying thats (corrected elsewyere to ‘early modern’) english, so, possibly intended by the writer, possibly not, that language indicates a time they could have had potatoes.
Well its middle engliwh not old english. You can tell because youbunderstand it even a little.
This is early modern English.
Maybe, i lump all that ‘cant be sure a normal american will understand but still doesnt take much work’ era of english in together.
Potatoes are a New World crop. They didn’t exist in medieval Europe.
And i was saying thats (corrected elsewyere to ‘early modern’) english, so, possibly intended by the writer, possibly not, that language indicates a time they could have had potatoes.