My research did not show these things
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Well he doesn't care what you say!
I must be Welsh!
And I don’t wanna talk to a welsh linguist
Mae’r motherfuckers hynny yn dweud celwydd, ac mae hynny’n gwneud i mi deimlo’n ddig.
I think you just summoned Chtulhu
EGPYPT
BUIDERS
Wish I could get egg piped u_u
I don’t care what anyone says!
proceeds to talk at length and with much fervor about what he believes people said
Imagine the length if he did care!
“I dont want to hear about the Welsh”
Well. Quite. Who does?
I'm just glad he said thanks.
This is so insane I cannot take it seriously. What the absolute fuck. I am really hoping this not real.
It's not real, right? Right??
Do you doubt a historian on YouTube?!
Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't realize his degree was from YouTube. Clearly his expertise is beyond mine and my lame university degrees. I shan't bother him with all my literal knowledge of the progression between Old and Middle English.
Hey kids!
Because that’s what you want. A “historian” that opens with:
“I don’t care what anyone says…”
I really want to see this research of his!
I think you just did.
lol 3 point swipe screenshot picked up the circles from show taps
It’s like the Victorians who believed that Britain was founded by a Trojan named Brutus, because how could the mighty lion-race of Albion who conquered a third of the globe possibly be descended from a bunch of woad-painted savages rather than the noble civilisations of classical antiquity?
woad-painted savages
I now have a new slur for the English. Thanks!
Oh that's an old one. Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (who had Jewish ancestry) said this in Parliament in the 1830s:
While the ancestors of right honorable gentleman for Upper Ordure were walking around dressed in pelts and woad, my ancestors were signing psalms to the Lord in the temple of King Solomon.
Charles forgot to take his pills.
What are you talking about? He took all the pills.
Bet you a dollar he doesn't actually know what Middle English even looks like.
I would not be at all surprised if he thought that was the language Shakespeare used.
Because I have seen Early Modern English called Middle English sooooo many times.
Shakespeare's easily understood, especially if you pick up on the vocabulary. LOL, the English wouldn't understand a word of Middle English.
Yeah, I tried reading Chaucer untranslated once. Gave up quickly.
This guy needs to read Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language.
But I'm sure we'll find out he's done more research than the author. I'm pretty sure she just shit out a book and called it scholarly research.
It's sarcasm, shut up.